Benjamin Britten Sheet Music for Orchestra

Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development As...

Concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza in association with Donald Mitchell and Colin Matthews, Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4331 - ti...

Britten's setting of Edith Sitwell's poem 'Praise We Great Men', was left unfinished at his death. It was being written for Mstislav Rostrpovich to include in his first season with the National Sympho...

Britten's last opera, Death In Venice , is based on the short story by Thomas Mann. It follows the inner turmoil of the ageing novelist Gustav von Aschenbach, who becomes infatuated by a boy he sees o...

Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope , for narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza i...

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the...

The first broadcast of the incidental music for D. G. Bridson's radio drama, King Arthur was given on 23rd April (St. George's Day) 1937. The first performance of this Suite for Orchestra was given on...

This concert version has been prepared by Donald Mitchell for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone soloists, 1 or 2 speakers, SATB choir and Orchestra. The text has been compiled by R. Ellis Roberts. Th...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimmen - 2 x Flöten und Piccolo, 2 x Oboen, 1 x Klarinette I, 1 x Klarinette II, 2 x Fagotte, 2 x Horn I + II in F, 2 x Horn III + IV in F, 1 x Trompete I, 1 x Trompete II, 2 x...

Study score for large orchestra This work for large orchestra is one of the most famous works by Benjamin Britten. It is very often used in children's musical education along with 'Carnival of the Ani...

A committed pacifist born into a renowned military family is met with a torrent of disapproval over his beliefs yet desperate to keep the love of his would-be bride, Owen is determined to prove his in...

Hardbound Edition HPS 1276

HPS 1308 Contents: The Bonny Earl o' Moray - Come you not from Newcastle? - Little Sir William - O can ye sew cushions? - Oliver Cromwell - O Waly, Waly - The Plough Boy - The Salley Gardens - La Bell...

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...