Benjamin Britten

Stimmenset für Oboe, Violine, Viola und Violoncello

Tenor, Horn und Klavier

This Little Babe, da A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28, per coro di bambini o coro femminile in tre parti e arpa o pianoforte. Testo di Robert Southwell, con traduzione in gallese di Elizabeth e Gerallt Jo...

Notes on the Production Booklet

The incidental music to the BBC radio serialization of T.H. White's book was composed in May 1939, soon after Britten's arrival in Canada, and was broadcast in six episodes during June and Jul...

For Violin, Viola and Piano (Reduced from the orchestra version). Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or compl...

. . .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...

Set of parts for Phantasy in F Minor for string quintet (two violins, two violas and cello)and lasting 11 minutes. Phantasy in F Minor won the Cobbett Prize for chamber music at the Royal College of M...

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

HPS 10

Benjamin Britten's Suite, Op. 6, for Violin and Piano was composed during 1934-35. The first performance of the complete work was given on 13th March, 1936, as part of a BBC broadcast, by Antonio Bros...