Benjamin Britten

In 1954, Benjamin Britten received two recorders as a gift from Carl Dolmetsch. His first composition for this instrument was the quartet "Scherzo" published here for the quartet line-up SATB. It is a...

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This opera is the final section of the entertainment for young people called Let`s Make an Opera. The first section of this is in the form of a play and illustrates the preparation and rehearsal of an...

This opera is the final section of the entertainment for young people called Let`s Make an Opera. The first section of this is in the form of a play and illustrates the preparation and rehearsal of an...

Speaker, Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Trumpet, Percussion, Harp, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass

reduction by Benjamin Britten and edited by Imogen Holst

Instrumentation: 2.picc.3.3.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/cyms/BD- harp - strings or 2.2.2.1.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): SD/cyms/BD -strings

2013 marks Brittens centenary making this year an important one for his music'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Britten was keen to provide the sing...

This was one of several concert pieces that Britten extracted from his 1953 coronation opera, a work which has only received its rightful due in recent years. The opera's dramatic core is the unfoldin...

The music of Henry Purcell formed a major influence across Britten’s output. The numerous editions of Purcell housed in Britten and Pears’s Library and Archive in Aldeburgh indicate the lasting import...

HPS 1196

Saint Nicolas (note the name has no 'H' in it!) was written for the centenary of Lancing College in Sussex, the independent secondary boarding school on the south coast of England which Peter Pears ha...