Benjamin Britten

2013 marks Britten's centenary making this year largely focused on his music.'Deo Gracias' (thanks be to God) was one of the carols drawn from texts in 'The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems', which Bri...

gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier (Harfe)

These songs were originally composed as part of the cycle 'Les Illuminations op 18', but they were withdrawn by the composer. They have been edited by Colin Matthews from the composer's manuscript sho...

Stimmenset für Oboe, Violine, Viola und Violoncello

Tenor, Horn und Klavier

Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen

This Little Babe, from A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28, for children's choir or female choir in three parts and harp or piano. Text by Robert Southwell, with Welsh translation by Elizabeth and Gerallt Jo...

Notes on the Production Booklet

. . .has an extraordinary bleakness, like cold stone in winter sunlight. The instruments, mainly strings and percussion, are systematically drained of color, yet the final moments offer some of the mo...

Text from English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes, edited by Alfred Pollard.

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...

It is hard to believe that Benjamin Britten was 16 when he wrote the Quartettino, such is the skill and intellectual command. Peter Stadlen, The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1983

Benjamin Britten wrote his 'String Quartet in F' in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that this piece was set as a homework ex...

HPS 10