Benjamin Britten

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...

These two pieces were written by Britten in 1935 for the oboist Sylvia Spencer, who had played in early performances of his Phantasy Quartet, Op.2. The first performances of The Grasshopper and The Wa...

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...

The sources for this new edition of Britten's String Quartet No.3 was the original manuscript, a photocopy of the manuscript in progress, Rosamund Strode's fair copy. The Quartet was written for the A...

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...

Suite For Cello, Op.72, composed by Benjamin Britten and edited by Mstislav Rostropovich for cello solo in digital sheet music format.

Second Suite For Cello, Op.80, composed by Benjamin Britten and edited by Mstislav Rostropovich for cello solo in digital sheet music format.

Third Suite For Cello, Op.87, composed by Benjamin Britten and edited by Mstislav Rostropovich for cello solo in digital sheet music format.

Three Suites For Cello Opp. 72, 80 & 87, composed by Benjamin Britten and edited by Mstislav Rostropovich for cello solo in digital sheet music format.