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    Benjamin Britten in Context

    Britten in Context offers historical, social, cultural, queer, musical, and political context for one of the pivotal British composers of the twentieth century. Engaging essays from leading scholars in music…

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    Benjamin Britten

    Michael Oliver

    A portrait of the life and work of Benjamin Britten.

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    Benjamin Brittens Liederzyklen

    Antje Reineke

    Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die erste umfassende Studie zu Benjamin Brittens 15 Liederzyklen. Aus der Analyse der musikalischen Strukturen und Textfolgen bietet sie einen UEberblick uber Brittens vielfaltige Zykluskonzeptionen und…

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    Benjamin Britten’s Poets

    Boris Ford

    Poetry affected Benjamin Britten’s musical ability and style of his composition. Arguably, no other composer of songs, set poems of such range and quality. All the 360 poems Britten set…

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    Benjamin Britten and Russia

    Cameron Pyke

    Explores Benjamin Britten’s deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the ‘Russian’ Britten.

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    Benjamin Britten in Context

    Britten in Context offers historical, social, cultural, queer, musical, and political context for one of the pivotal British composers of the twentieth century. Engaging essays from leading scholars in music…

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    The Music of Benjamin Britten

    Peter Evans

    This study discusses Britten’s published compositions in subdivisions of genre and period, and devotes a separate chapter to each opera. With the help of over 300 music examples and diagrams…

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    Benjamin Britten: A Bio-Bibliography

    Stewart R. Craggs

    Certain to be of use to any scholar of British music or 20th century composition, this reference work is an invaluable addition to the literature on this important artist. Following…

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    Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research

    Peter J. Hodgson

    This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters…

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    Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research

    Peter J. Hodgson

    This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters…

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    Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw

    This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten’s opera, The Turn of the Screw. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and…

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    Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

    Philip Brett

    Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the…

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    Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

    Mervyn Cooke (University of Cambridge),Philip Reed (Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh, UK)

    A full synopsis takes the reader through the musical and dramatic action of this, one of Britten’s most challenging operas and further chapters discuss the literary background, the collaboration between…

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    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    A companion to Britten’s music and life.

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    Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music

    Neil Powell

    Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest…

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    Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice

    This book is exceptional amongst those that have appeared so far in this well-established series, in that it is largely written by those who worked with the composer and assisted…

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    Benjamin Britten: The Spiritual Dimension

    Graham Elliott

    It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from ‘normal’ society, and that this accounts for his concern to portray the ‘outsider’ in his operas. This…

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    Orchestral Anthology Volume 1

    Benjamin Britten

    Now published in The Masterworks Library. Landmark 20th century works from the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue available for the first time in full score format at pocket score prices with…

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    Works For Voice And Chamber Orchestra

    Benjamin Britten

    Now published in The Masterworks Library. Landmark 20th century works from the Boosey & Hawkes catalogue available for the first time in full score format at pocket score prices with…

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    The World Of The Spirit

    (Choral). Britten’s second ‘religious’ cantata, The World of the Spirit was written for the BBC radio in 1938. With detailed prefatory notes by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed.

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    Symphonic Suite from Gloriana op. 53a: Hawkes Pocket Scores Hps 1532

    (Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). One of several concert pieces that Britten extracted from his 1953 coronation opera, a work which has only received its rightful due in recent years.

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    Gemini Variations

    Based on a theme of Kodaly and written for the precociously talented twins, Zoltan and Gabor Jeney, this 15-minute piece for flute, violin and piano 4 hands can be performed…

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    Voices For Today

    This work was composed for the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations and requires a large adult chorus of men and women, and a smaller children’s choir placed separately with…

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    The Burning Fiery Furnace

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    In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias…

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    The Poet’s Echo

    Titles: Echo * My Heart * Angel * The Nightingale and the Rose * Epigram * Lines written during a sleepless night

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    String Quartet in D

    Titles: llegro maestoso * Lento ed espressivo * Allegro giocoso

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    String Quartet in D

    Titles: Allegro maestoso * Lento ed espressivo * Allegro giocoso

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    Sacred and Profane

    Sacred and Profane consists of eight settings for unaccompanied voices of lyrics from RT Davis’ collection of Medieval English lyrics, composed early in 1975 for Peter Pears and the Wilbye…

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    Cadenzas To Mozart Piano Concerto In Eb K482

    Britten’s 6 minute cadenza was requested by Sviatoslav Richter and written in the summer of 1966 in Aldeburgh before being toured by Richter.

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    The Golden Vanity

    Vocal score of The Golden Vanity which was composed in 1966 for performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir, who commissioned it from Britten and went on to perform it…

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    The Golden Vanity

    Chorus part of The Golden Vanity which was composed in 1966 for performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir, who commissioned it from Britten and went on to perform it…

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    The Building Of The House

    Scored for SATB chorus and orchestra, The Building of the House was written for the inaugural concert of the new Maltings concert hall, Snape at the 20th Aldeburgh festival.

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    Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus

    The last of Britten’s Canticles for tenor and harp with a text by T.S. Eliot. This 7 minute work was written in 1974 for Peter Pears and Osian Ellis, premiered…

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    Tit For Tat

    Five settings of poems by Walter De La Mere arranged for Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment. These settings were written by Benjamin Britten in his childhood, and were collected together…

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    Children’s Crusade

    A ballad for children’s voices and (largely) percussion orchestra setting a long narrative poem by Bertolt Brecht, telling the tragic story of a band of orphaned children lost in the…

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    Children’s Crusade

    A ballad for children’s voices and (largely) percussion orchestra setting a long narrative poem by Bertolt Brecht, telling the tragic story of a band of orphaned children lost in the…

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    Suite for Harp

    Titles: Overture * Toccata * Nocturne * Fugue * Hymn (St. Denio)

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    Canticle IV

    Music of profound beauty from one of the greatest vocal music composers of the past 100 years, set to text by T.S. Eliot. This is one of Britten’s five canticles…

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    Death in Venice

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    Britten’s last opera is based on the short story by Thomas Mann. It follows the inner turmoil of the ageing novelist Gustav von Aschenbach, who becomes infatuated by…

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    Phaedra

    Dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra.

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    A Birthday Hansel

    Written at the request of Elizabeth II for the occasion of the Queen Mother’s 75th birthday, this late jewel in Britten’s song output sets seven poems by Robert Burns for…

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    Paul Bunyan

    Vocal score for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in…

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    Four Burns Songs

    These four songs are taken from A Birthday Hansel Op.92 which was written at the special wish of Her Majesty The Queen for her mother’s seventy-fifth birthday, 4th August 1975…

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    Eight Folk Song Arrangements

    Titles: Lord, I married me a wife * She’s like the Swallow * Lemady * Bonny at morn * I was lonely and forlorn * David of the White Rock…

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    Temporal Variations

    In 1935 Britten hinted that a large and elaborate suite for oboe and strings was gestating in his mind. However, this work did not materialize and instead he wrote the…

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    The Twelve Apostles

    Scored for solo voice, unison chorus and piano, The Twelve Apostles was written for Peter Pears and the London Boy Singers. The text was adopted from The Ten Commandments as…

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    Paul Bunyan: (Chorus Part)

    Chorus part for the operetta Paul Bunyan, the story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in…

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    Men of Goodwill: (Score)

    Variations on a Christmas Carol (God rest ye merry, gentlemen) for orchestra. Composed for the BBC programme with the same title which wasbroadcast on Christmas Day 1947. The programme consisted…

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