Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
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12 Variations on a Theme (1931)
A Boy Was Born - Choral variations for unaccompanied voices op. 3
A cantata `Saint Nicolas` for tenor solo, mixed chorus, piano duet, organ, strings & percussion op. 42
A Crocodile
A Hymn of St Columba for chorus and organ (1962)
A Wedding Anthem op. 46
A.M.D.G. (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam), seven settings of Gerard Manley Hopkins for unaccompanied SATB (1939)
Advance Democracy, for Unaccompanied Choir (1938)
Alla marcia for string quartet (1933)
An American Overture, for orchestra, 1941
Antiphon, for choir (SATB with optional solos) and organ (1956) op. 56b
Ballet `Prince of Pagodas` (1956) op. 57
Bird Scarer’s Song
Cantata Academica (Carmen Basiliense) for solos, chorus and orchestra (1959) op. 62
Cantata misericordium for solos, small chorus and orchestra (1963) op. 69
Cantata `Ballad of Heroes` (1939) op. 14
Cantata `Phaedra` for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1976) op. 93
Canticle ¹1 `My beloved is mine` for high voice and piano (1947) op. 40
Canticle ¹2 `Abraham and Isaac` for alto and tenor voices and piano (1952) op. 51
Canticle ¹3 `Still falls the Rain` for tenor, horn and piano (1954) op. 55
Canticle ¹4 `Journey of the Magi` for counter-tenor, tenor, baritone and piano (1971) op. 86
Canticle ¹5 `The Death of Saint Narcissus` for tenor and harp (1974) op. 89
Children Cruisade op. 82
Choral Dances (from `Gloriana`), for chorus a cappella (1967)
Chorale, after an Old French Carol, for dubble chorus a cappella (1944)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D-dur (1938, 1945) op. 13
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1939) op. 15
Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in h-moll (1932)
Courtly Dances, from the opera Gloriana, for Orchestra
David of the White Rock
Dawtie’s Devotion
Dink`s Song
Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra op. 21
Eight Folk Songs Arranged for Voice and Harp (1976): ¹ 1 Lord! I married me a wife
Eight Folk Songs Arranged for Voice and Harp (1976): ¹ 3 Bonny at Morn
Eight Folk Songs Arranged for Voice and Harp (1976): ¹ 5 Bugelio`r Gwenith Gwyn
Eight Folk Songs Arranged for Voice and Harp (1976): ¹ 6 Dafydd y Garreg Wen
Eight Folk Songs Arranged for Voice and Harp (1976): ¹ 7 The False Knight upon the road
Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury (1959) - for three trumpets
Festival Te Deum for chorus and organ, 1945 op. 32
Folk Songs (unpublished): Soldier, won`t you marry me?
Folk Songs (unpublished): The Holly and the Ivy
Folk Songs (unpublished): The Stream in the Valley
Folk Songs (unpublished): Unidentified folk song setting
Folk Songs (unpublished): `Greensleeves`
Folk Songs (unpublished): `Pray Goody`
Folk Songs (unpublished): `The Deaf Woman`s Courtship`
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 1 `The Salley Gardens` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 2 `Little Sir William` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 3 `The Bonney Earl o`Moray` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 4 `O can ye sew cushions?` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 5 `The trees they grow so high` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 6 `The Ash Grove`` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume I): British Isles - ¹ 7 `Oliver Cromwell` (1941)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 1 `La Noel passe` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 2 `Voici le Printemps` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 3 `Fileuse` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 4 `Le roi s`en va-t`en chasse` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 5 `La belle est au jardin d`amour` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 6 `Il est quelqu`un sur terre` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 7 `Eho! Eho!` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume II): France - ¹ 8 `Quand j`etais chez mon pere` (1942)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 1 `The Plough Boy` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 2 `There`s none to soothe` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 3 `Sweet Polly Oliver` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 4 `The Miller of Dee` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 5 `The foggy, foggy dew` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 6 `O Waly, Waly` (1945/46)
Folk Songs (volume III): British Isles - ¹ 7 `Come You Not From Newcastle?`
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Melodies, poems of T. Moor - ¹ 10 O the sight entrancing (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Melodies, poems of T. Moor - ¹ 6 Rich and Rare (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Melodies, poems of T. Moor - ¹ 7 Dear Harp of my Country (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Melodies, poems of T. Moor - ¹ 8 Oft in the stilly night (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Melodies, poems of T. Moor - ¹ 9 Last Rose of Summer (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Irish Music, poems by T. Moor - ¹ 5 At the mid hour of night (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Moore`s Irish Melodies - ¹ 1 `Avening and bright` (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Moore`s Irish Melodies - ¹ 2 `Sail on, sail on` (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Moore`s Irish Melodies - ¹ 3 `How sweet answer` (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume IV): Moore`s Irish Melodies - ¹ 4 `The Minstrel Boy` (1957/58)
Folk Songs (volume V): British Isles - ¹ 1 `The Brisk Young Widow` (1951)
Folk Songs (volume V): British Isles - ¹ 2 `Sally in our Alley` (1951)
Folk Songs (volume V): British Isles - ¹ 3 `The Lincolnshire Poacher` (1951)
Folk Songs (volume V): British Isles - ¹ 4 `Early one morning` (1951)
Folk Songs (volume V): British Isles - ¹ 5 `Ca` the yowes` (1951)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 1 `I will give my love an apple` (1956)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 2 `Sailor-boy` (1956)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 3 Master Kilby (1956)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 4 The Soldier and The Sailor (1956)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 5 Bonny at Morn (1956)
Folk Songs (volume VI): England - ¹ 6 The Shooting of his Dear (1956)
from the Ronald Duncan`s `This way to the Tomb`
Holiday Diary for Piano op. 5
Hymn to St Peter op. 56a
Hymn to St. Cecilia op. 27
I wonder as I wander
Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca for 2 pianos (1941)
Jubilate Deo in C for chorus and organ (1961)
King Herod and the Cock
Lachrymae (reflections on a song of John Dowland ) for viola and piano (1950) op. 48a
Lemady
Matinee Musicales, Suite for Orchestra, 1941 op. 24
Missa Brevis in D, for boys` voices and organ (1959) op. 63
Movement for Clarinet and Orchestra (1942-43)
Night-Piece (Notturno), for Piano (1963)
Noah`s Ark, Children`s opera
Nocturnal (after John Dowland) for Guitar (1963) op. 70
Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings (1958) op. 60
Now sleeps the crimson petal
O that I’d ne’er been married
Occasional Overture (1946)
On this island, op. 11 (1938) - five songs for high voice and piano op. 11
Opera `A Midsummer Night`s Dream` (1964) op. 64
Opera `Albert Herring` (1946) op. 39
Opera `Billy Budd` (1951) op. 50
Opera `Curlew River`, à Parable for Church Perfomance (1964) op. 71
Opera `Death in Venice` (1973-1974) op. 88
Opera `Gloriana` (1953) op. 53
Opera `Owen Wingrave` (1971) op. 85
Opera `The Burning Fiery Furnace`, a Parable for Church Perfomance (1966) op. 77
Opera `The Prodigal Son`, A Parable for Church Perfomance (1968) op. 81
Opera `The Rape of Lucretia` (1946) op. 37
Opera `Turn of the screw` (1954) op. 54
Opera-ballad `The Beggar`s Opera` (1948) op. 43
Operetta `Paul Bunyan` (1941) op. 17
Oprea `Peter Grimes` (1945) op. 33
Our Fathers Are Hunters, Vocal Cycle for soprano or tenor and orchestra (1936) op. 8
Parts of compositions
Parts of works
Phantasy in F minor for string quintet (1932)
Phantasy Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello (1932) op. 2
Pieces for Two Pianos op. 23
Prelude and Fugue for 18 strings (1943) op. 29
Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Vittoria
Psalm 150, for two-part children`s voices and instruments (1962) op. 67
Quartettino (1930)
Quatre Chansons françaises
Realizations from `Harmonia Sacra`
Rejoice in the Lamb for 4 soloists, choir, and organ; text by Christopher Smart (1943) op. 30
Rhapsody (1929)
Scottish Song
Serenade for cello solo
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings op. 31
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940) op. 22
She’s like the swallow
Simple Symphony for string orchestra (1934) op. 4
Sinfonia da Requiem op. 20
Sinfonietta (1932) op. 1
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. 1951 op. 49
Soirees musicales, suite for orchestra (after Rossini) 1936 op. 9
Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major (1961) op. 65
Song Cycle `A Charm of Lullabies` for mezzo-soprano and piano (1947) op. 41
Song Cycle `Five Flower Songs` for Chorus a capella (1950) op. 47
Song Cycle `Les Illuminations` for high voice and string orchestra (1939) op. 18
Song Cycle `Songs and Proverbs of William Blake` for Baritone and Piano (1965) op. 74
Song Cycle `Songs from the Chinese` for Voice and Guitar (1957) op. 58
Song `Night covers up the rigid land`
String Quartet in D (1931)
String Quartet in F (1928)
String Quartet No 3 op. 94
String Quartet No. 1 in D-dur op. 25
String Quartet No. 2 in C op. 36
Suite for Cello solo No.1 (1964) op. 72
Suite for Cello solo No.2 (1967) op. 80
Suite for Cello solo No.3 (1972) op. 87
Suite for Harp op. 83
Suite for Violin and Piano op. 6
Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sung (1931)
Symphony for Cello and Orchestra op. 68
Te Deum in C for treble solo, chorus, trumpet, and organ (1934)
Temporal Variations
The Bitter Withy
THE GOLDEN VANITY (1966ã.) op. 78
The Gully
The Little Sweep op. 45
The Red Cockatoo & other songs
The Sword In The Stone, concert-suite for chamber ensemble
The Twelve Apostels
Three Divertimenti
Tit for tat
Tom Bowling
Triptych
Two Insect Pieces
Two Portraits (1930)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell `Guide to the symphony orchestra for young musicians` for orchestra (1945) op. 34
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, for string orchestra (1937) op. 10
W. H. Auden settings
Welcome Ode op. 95
Young Apollo, for piano, string quartet , and string orchestra (1939) op. 16
`A Birthday Hansel` for high voice and harp (1975) op. 92
`A ceremony of carols` for treble voices and harp (1942) op. 28
`A Hymn to the Virgin`, for mixed voices a cappella (1930)
`Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam`, for choir a capella (1939) op. 17
`Canadian Carnival` for orchestra (1939) op. 19
`Death in Venice `, a suite from the opera (1973) op. 88b
`Jubilate Deo` in E flat for chorus and organ (1934)
`Russian Funeral`, for brass and percussion ensemble (1936)
`Sacred and Profane`, for mixed chorus a cappella (1974-75) op. 91
`Scottish Ballad`, for two pianos and orchestra (1941) op. 26
`Sea Interludes` from the opera `Peter Grimes`, for symphony orchestra (1945) op. 33a
`Spring Symphony` op. 44
`The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard`, for male voices and piano (1943)
`The Heart of the Matter` for narrator, tenor, horn, and piano (1956)
`The Holy Sonnets of John Donne`, for high voice and piano (1945) op. 35
`The Poet`s Echo` high voice and piano (1965) op. 76
`War Requiem` for Soprano, Tenor and Baritone, Chorus, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Boys` Choir and Organ (1962) op. 66
`Who are these children?` op. 84
«The Building of the House», for chorus or organ or brass and orchestra (1967) op. 79
«Winter Words», for high voice and piano (1953) op. 52
 
     

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