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Britten, Benjamin

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Works in catalog: 281

OPERAS · 13

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Albert Herring

Billy Budd

Curlew River

Death in Venice

Gloriana

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Noye's Fludde

Paul Bunyan

Peter Grimes

The Beggar's Opera

The Little Sweep

The Rape of Lucretia

Turn of the screw

LIEDER · 268

Lord! I married me a wife

8-folk-song-arrangements

She's like the swallow

8-folk-song-arrangements

Lemady

8-folk-song-arrangements

Bonny at morn

8-folk-song-arrangements

Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn

8-folk-song-arrangements

Dafydd y Garreg Wen

8-folk-song-arrangements

The False Knight upon the road

8-folk-song-arrangements

Bird Scarer's song

8-folk-song-arrangements

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Birthday Song

a-birthday-hansel

My Early Walk

a-birthday-hansel

Wee Willie

a-birthday-hansel

My Hoggie

a-birthday-hansel

The Winter

a-birthday-hansel

Leezie Lindsay

a-birthday-hansel

Theme: A Boy was Born

Variation I: Lullay Jesu

Variation II: Herod

Variation III: Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour

Variation IV: The Three Kings

Variation VI: (Finale) Noel!

Procession

a-ceremony-of-carols

Wolcum Yole!

a-ceremony-of-carols

That yongë child

a-ceremony-of-carols

This little babe

a-ceremony-of-carols

In freezing winter night

a-ceremony-of-carols

Spring carol

a-ceremony-of-carols

The Highland Balou

a-charm-of-lullabies

Sephestia's Lullaby

a-charm-of-lullabies

A charm

a-charm-of-lullabies

The Nurse's Song

a-charm-of-lullabies

A hymn on divine musick

A hymn to the Virgin

A morning hymn

A Wedding Anthem

EN

Advance Democracy

An evening hymn

Antiphon

At the mid hour of night

Aube

Avenging and bright

Funeral march

ballad-of-heroes

Scherzo - Dance of Death

ballad-of-heroes

Epilog

ballad-of-heroes

Birthday song for Erwin

EN

Ca' the yowes

Tell me the truth about love

Funeral Blues

Johnny

Calypso

Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac)

Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi)

EN

Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus)

EN

Celemene

Choral Dances from Gloriana

EN

Chorale

EN

Chorale after an Old French Carol

EN

Come you not from Newcastle?

Cradle song

Dans les bois

Dawtie's devotion

Dear Harp of my Country!

Dulcibella

Epitaph: The Clerk

Fairest isle

Festival Cantata

Festival Te Deum

To lie flat on the back

fish-in-the-unruffled-lakes-six-auden-settings-for-high-voice-and-piano

The sun shines down

fish-in-the-unruffled-lakes-six-auden-settings-for-high-voice-and-piano

EN

Fish in the unruffled lakes

fish-in-the-unruffled-lakes-six-auden-settings-for-high-voice-and-piano

Underneath the abject willow

fish-in-the-unruffled-lakes-six-auden-settings-for-high-voice-and-piano

Marsh flowers

five-flower-songs

The evening primrose

five-flower-songs

The Ballad of Green Broom

five-flower-songs

La noël passée

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Voici le printemps

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Fileuse

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

La belle est au jardin d'amour

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Il est quelqu'un sur terre

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Eho! Eho!

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Quand j'étais chez mon père

folk-song-arrangements-vol-2-chansons-populaires

Begone, dull care!

friday-afternoons

Cuckoo!

friday-afternoons

Ee-oh!

friday-afternoons

A New Year carol

friday-afternoons

I mun be married on Sunday

friday-afternoons

There was a man of Newington

friday-afternoons

Fishing song

friday-afternoons

Jazz-Man

friday-afternoons

There was a monkey

friday-afternoons

Old Abram Brown

friday-afternoons

Hark the ech'ing air!

EN

How blest are shepherds

Hymn to St Cecilia

I attempt from love's sickness to fly

I have sinned

I'll sail upon the dog-star

I spy Celia

I take no pleasure

I wonder as I wander

If I'd as much money as I could spend

In the black dismal dungeon of despair

Job's curse

Villes

les-illuminations

Royauté

les-illuminations

Marine

les-illuminations

Being beauteous

les-illuminations

Parade

les-illuminations

Départ

les-illuminations

Let the dreadful engines

Lilian

Little Sir William

Lord, what is man?

Lost is my quiet

Man is for the woman made

Master Kilby

Music for a while

No, resistance is but vain

Below the thunders of the upper deep

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

Encinctured with a twine of leaves

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

But that night when on my bed I lay

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

She sleeps on soft, last breaths

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

What is more gentle than a wind in summer?

nocturne-for-tenor-solo-seven-obligato-instruments-and-string-orchestra

Nod

Not all my torments

Not even summer yet

O can ye sew cushions?

O solitude

O that I had ne'er been married

O Waly, Waly

Oliver Cromwell

On the brow of Richmond Hill

Let the florid music praise!

Now the leaves are falling fast

Seascape

Nocturne

As it is, plenty

Prologue

our-hunting-fathers

Rats away

our-hunting-fathers

Messalina

our-hunting-fathers

Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge)

our-hunting-fathers

Epilogue and Funeral March

our-hunting-fathers

Prologue

phaedra

EN

Recitative

phaedra

EN

Pious Celinda

Prithee

Nuits de juin

quatre-chansons-francaises

Rich and rare

St Godric's Hymn

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

I mon waxe wod

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

Lenten is come

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

The long night

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

Yif ic of luve can

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

Carol

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

Ye that pasen by

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

A death

sacred-and-profane-eight-medieval-lyrics

Sail on, sail on

Sailor-Boy

Menschenbeifall

sechs-holderlin-fragmente

Die Heimat

sechs-holderlin-fragmente

Sokrates und Alcibiades

sechs-holderlin-fragmente

Die Jugend

sechs-holderlin-fragmente

Pastoral

serenade-for-tenor-horn-and-strings

Sonetto XVI

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto XXXI

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto XXX

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto LV

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto XXXVIII

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto XXXII

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Sonetto XXIV

seven-sonnets-of-michelangelo

Shepherd, leave decoying

Shepherd's carol

Proverb I

songs-and-proverbs-of-william-blake

Proverb II

songs-and-proverbs-of-william-blake

EN

Proverb IV

songs-and-proverbs-of-william-blake

Proverb V

songs-and-proverbs-of-william-blake

Proverb VI

songs-and-proverbs-of-william-blake

The big chariot

songs-from-the-chinese

The Old Lute

songs-from-the-chinese

The herd-boy

songs-from-the-chinese

Depression

songs-from-the-chinese

Dance song

songs-from-the-chinese

Sound the trumpet

Shine out

spring-symphony

The merry cuckoo

spring-symphony

The morning star

spring-symphony

Welcome, Maids of Honour

spring-symphony

Waters above

spring-symphony

Out on the lawn I lie in bed

spring-symphony

When will my May come

spring-symphony

Fair and fair

spring-symphony

Sweet Polly Oliver

Sweet was the song

Take not a woman's anger ill

The ash grove

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation when our Saviour (at twelve years of age) had withdrawn himself

The bonny Earl o' Moray

The brisk young widow

The Children and Sir Nameless

The crocodile

The deaf woman's courtship

The gully

Oh my blacke Soule!

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

Oh might those sighes and teares

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

Oh, to vex me

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

What if this present

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

Since she whom I lov'd

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

Death be not proud

the-holy-sonnets-of-john-donne

The joy of grief

The king goes hunting

FR

The knotting song

The last rose of summer

The Lincolnshire poacher

The Miller of Dee

The Minstrel Boy

The ploughboy

The Queen's Epicedium

The red cockatoo

The ship of Rio

The shooting of his dear

The sight entrancing

The soldier and the sailor

The trees they grow so high

Evening

the-way-to-the-tomb

EN

Morning

the-way-to-the-tomb

EN

Night

the-way-to-the-tomb

EN

There's none to soothe

There's not a swain of the plain

The rainbow

three-two-part-songs

The ride-by-nights

three-two-part-songs

A Song of Enchantment

Autumn

Vigil

Tit for tat

Tradition

Turn then thine eyes

EN

Mother Comfort

two-ballads-for-two-voices-and-piano

Lift boy

two-part-songs

EN

Um Mitternacht

Virtue in deeds not words

Wandering Willie

We sing to him

What can we poor females do?

When Myra sings

When you're feeling like expressing your affection

A riddle (Answer: the earth)

who-are-these-children

A laddie's sang

who-are-these-children

Nightmare

who-are-these-children

Black day

who-are-these-children

Bed-time

who-are-these-children

Slaughter

who-are-these-children

A riddle (The child you were)

who-are-these-children

The larky lad

who-are-these-children

Who are these children?

who-are-these-children

Supper

who-are-these-children

The children

who-are-these-children

The auld aik

who-are-these-children

Wild with passion

At Day-Close in November

Midnight on the Great Western

Wagtail and Baby

The little old table

The choirmaster's burial

Proud songsters

At the railway station, Upway

Before life and after

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Albert Herring

Billy Budd

Curlew River

Death in Venice

Gloriana

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