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Benjamin Britten

(1913-1976)

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CATALOGUE OF B. BRITTEN’s WORKS

 
See also: The Lieder of Benjamin Britten

 Stage Works

Opus

 - Title

Timon of Athens - Incidental music - 1935

Easter 1916 (Slater) - Incidental music - 1935

Stay Down Miner (Slater) - Incidental music - 1936

Agamemnon (trans. MacNeice) - Incidental music - 1936

The Ascent of F6 (Auden/Isherwood) - Incidental music - 1937

On the Frontier (Auden/Isherwood) - Incidental music - 1938

Johnson over Jordan (Priestley) - Incidental music - 1935; f.p. 1939 - New Theatre, London

This Way to the Tomb - Incidental music - 1945

43

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The Beggar's Opera (after John Gay) - Ballad Opera - 1948

45

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The Little Sweep - Opera - 1949

50

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Billy Budd - Opera - 1951 rev. 1960, f.p. 1951, Covent Garden (2 act version first broadcast 1961 -BBC; f.p. 1964 - Covent Garden)

53

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Gloriana - Opera - 1953 - Opera - New York City Opera OperaPak; f.p. 1953 - Joan Cross, Peter Pears, Monica Sinclair, Jennifer Vyvyan, Geraint Evans, Frederick Dahlberg, Arnold Matters, Inia Te Wiata - Covent Garden

54

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The Turn of the Screw - Opera - 1954; f.p. 1954 - Peter Pears, Jennifer Vyvyan, Joan Cross, Arda Mandikian, Olive Dyer, David Hemmings - La Fenice

57

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The Prince of the Pagodas - Ballet - 1956

59

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Noye's Fludde - Opera - 1957

64

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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Opera - 1960 ; f.p. 1960 - Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Owen Brannigan, April Cantelo, Marjorie Thomas, Thomas Hemsley, George Moran, Peter Pears - Aldeburgh

71

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Curlew River - Church parable - 1964; f.p. 1964 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church

77

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The Burning Fiery Furnace - Church parable - 1966; f.p. 1966 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church

81

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The Prodigal Son - Church parable - 1968; f.p. 1968 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church

85

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Owen Wingrave - Opera - 1970; f.p. 1971 - B. Luxon, J. Shirley-Quirk, J. Baker, P. Pears, J. Vyvyan, N. Douglas, S. Fisher, H. Harper, Boys of the Wandsworth School Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten - BBC2 Television

88

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Death in Venice - Opera - 1973; f.p. 1973 - Peter Pears, John Shirley Quirk, James Bowman, English Opera Group, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings

Choral Works

Opus - Title

A Hymn to the Virgin - unacc. - 1930 rev. 1934

Christ's Nativity (The King's Birthday) 1931; f.p. 1991 - Britten Singers, Stephen Wilkinson - Aldeburgh

Three Two-Part Songs - boys/female voices - 1932 - 1933 rev. 1955

3

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A Boy was Born - boys' voices, male voices, female voices (with organ ad lib)

Two Two - Part Songs - SATB, piano - 1933

7

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Friday Afternoons - children's voices, piano - 1935

May - unison voices, piano - 1934

Te Deum - Treble, SATB, org/str, harp/piano - 1934

Two Ballads- 2 voices, piano - 1937

Pacifist March - unison voices, accompaniment - 1937

Advance Democracy - SSAATTBB - 1938

14

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Ballad of Heroes - Tenor/Soprano, chorus, orchestra - 1939

A.M.D.G. - SATB - 1939; f.p. 1984 - London Sinfonietta Voices, Terry Edwards - Purcell Room, London

17

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Hopkins settings - withdrawn

27

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Hymn to St. Cecilia - SSATB - 1942

28

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A Ceremony of Carols - Treble voices, harp - 1942

30

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Rejoice in the Lamb - Treble, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, SATB, organ - 1943

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Bernard - male voices, piano - 1943

A Shepherd's Carol - SATB - 1944

Chorale after an Old French Carol - SATB - 1944; f.p. 1944 - BBC Singers, Leslie Woodgate - BBC Radio

32

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Festival Te Deum - SATB, organ - 1945

Deus in adjutorum meum - 1945

Old Joe has Gone Fishing - SATB, piano

Song of the Fishermen - SATB, piano

42

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St. Nicolas - Tenor, SA, 4 Tr, SATB, strings, piano 4 hands, percussion, organ -1948

44

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Spring Symphony - Soprano, Alto, Tenor, boys voices, mixed voices, orchestra -1949

46

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A Wedding Anthem - Soprano, Tenor, SATB, organ - 1949

47

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Five Flower Songs - SATB - 1950

Choral Dances from Gloriana - unacc

56a

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Hymn to St. Peter - Treble, SATB, organ - 1955

56b

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Antiphon - SATB, organ - 1956

62

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Cantata academica - Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, chorus, orchestra - 1959

63

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Missa brevis - boys' voices, organ - 1959

Jubilate Deo - SATB, organ - 1961

Fancie - unison voices, piano - 1961

66

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War Requiem - Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, boys' voices, mixed voices, orchestra, chamber orchestra, organ - 1961

67

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Psalm CL - children's chorus 2 voices, instruments - 1962

A Hymn to St. Columba - SATB, organ - 1962

The Twelve Apostles - solo voice, unison chorus, piano - 1962; f.p. 1962 - Peter Pears, London Boy Singers, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh

69

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Cantata misericordium - Tenor, Baritone, small chorus, string quartet, string orchestra, piano, harp, timpani - 1963

75

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Voices for Today - boys' voices, double chorus, organ ad lib - 1965; f.p. 1965 - London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey,Ralph

Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sung - SSAA - 1931 (1966); f.p. 1966 - Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst - Aldeburgh

78

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The Golden Vanity - boys' voices, piano - 1966; f.p. 1967 - Vienna Boys' Choir -Aldeburgh, The Oxen - female chorus 2 voices, piano - 1967

The Sycamore Tree - SATB - 1930 (1967); f.p. 1968 - Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger - Aldeburgh

A Wealden Trio - SSA - 1929 (1967); f.p. 1968 - Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger - Aldeburgh

82

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Children's Crusade - children's voices, percussion, 2 pianos, organ - 1968; f.p. 1969 - Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Russell Burgess - St. Paul's Cathedral

91

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Sacred and Profane - 5 voices - 1975; f.p. 1975 - Wilbye Consort of Voices, Peter Pears - Snape Maltings

95

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Welcome Ode - young people's voices, orchestra - 1976; f.p. 1977 - Suffolk Schools' Choir and Orchestra, Keith Shaw

Praise we great men - SATB, SATB, orchestra - 1976 (completed by Colin Matthews 1985); f.p. 1985 - Marie McLaughlin, Heather Harper, Philip

Solo Vocal
  

Opus

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Title

Beware! - voice, piano - 1925

Quatre Chansons Françaises - High voice, orchestra - 1928; f.p. 1980 - Heather Harper, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings

The Birds - Mezzo/Baritone, piano - 1929 rev. 1934

The Ship of Rio - voice, piano - 1932 (1963)

A Poison Tree - Baritone, piano - 1935; f.p. 1986 - Henry Herford, Ian Brown - Wigmore Hall

When you're feeling like expressing your affection - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1935/6; f.p. 1992 Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

8

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Our Hunting Fathers - Soprano/Tenor, orchestra - 1936

Underneath the Abject Willow - Tenor, piano - 1936(?)

11

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On this Island - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937

Cabaret Songs - High voice, piano - 1937

Not even summer yet - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937; f.p. 1937 - Nell Moody, Gordon Thorne

To lie flat on the back with knees flexed - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937

Night covers up the rigid land - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937

Fish in the Unruffled Lakes - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1938

The Red Cockatoo - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1938; f.p. 1991 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Snape Maltings

18

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Les illuminations - Soprano/Tenor, strings - 1939

22

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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo - Tenor, piano - 1940

Underneath the Abject Willow - Soprano, Tenor, piano - 1941

Song, on the water ("Wild with passion") - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; f.p. 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

Dirge for Wolfram ("If thou wilt ease thy heart") - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; f.p. 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

Cradle Song for Eleanor - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; f.p. 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

31

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Serenade - Tenor, horn and strings - 1943

Now sleeps the crimson petal - Tenor, horn and strings - 1943

Three Arias from Peter Grimes - Tenor, Soprano, piano/orchestra -

35

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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1945

Birthday Song for Erwin - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1945; f.p. 1988 - Christopher Hobkirk, Rosalind Jones - RCM

Three Arias from The Rape of Lucretia - Alto, Tenor, Mezzo, piano/orchestra -

40

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Canticle I "My beloved is mine" - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1947

41

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A Charm of Lullabies - Mezzo, piano - 1947

51

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Canticle II "Abraham and Isaac" - Alto, Tenor, piano - 1952

52

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Winter Words - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953

If it's ever spring again - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953

The children and Sir Nameless - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953

55

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Canticle III "Still Falls the Rain" - Tenor, horn, piano - 1954

The Heart of the Matter - Narrator, tenor, horn, piano - 1956

58

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Songs from the Chinese - Soprano/Tenor, guitar - 1957

60

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Nocturne - Tenor, 7 obbligato instruments, string orchestra - 1958

61

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Sechs Hölderin - Fragmente - voice, piano - 1958

Bottom's Dream from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bass - Baritone, piano/orchestra

Um Mitternacht - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1959/60; f.p. 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

74

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Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - Baritone, piano - 1965; f.p. 1965 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh

76

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The Poet's Echo - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1965; f.p. 1965 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich - Moscow

Tit for Tat - voice, piano - 1931 (1968); f.p. 1969 - John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh

84

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Who are these Children? - Tenor, piano - 1969; f.p. 1971 - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - National Gallery, Edinburgh

86

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Canticle IV "The Journey of the Magi" - Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, piano - 1971; f.p. 1971 - James Bowman, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings

89

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Canticle V "The Death of Narcissus" - Tenor, harp - 1974; f.p. 1975 - Peter Pears, Osian Ellis - Schloss Elmau, Bavaria

92

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A Birthday Hansel - High voice, harp - 1975; f.p. 1976 - Peter Pears, Osian Ellis - Schloss Elmau, Bavaria

93

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Phaedra - Mezzo, strings, percussion, 'cello, harpsichord - 1975; f.p. 1976 - Janet Baker, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings

The Sun Shines Down - Tenor, piano - (?)

What's on your mind? - Tenor, piano - (?)


Music for the Radio
  

Opus

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Title

The Company of Heaven - 1937; f.p. 1937 - Felix Aylmer, Ian Dawson, Stewart Rome, Sophie Wyss, Peter Pears, BBC C & O, Trevor Harvey - BBC Radio King Arthur - 1937

Hadrian's Wall - 1937

The World of the Spirit - 1938

The Sword in the Stone - 1939

An American in England - 1942

The Rescue - 1943

- Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble - Studio Informatico Anesin -