Benjamin Britten

This Little Babe, de A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28, para coro infantil o coro femenino a tres partes y arpa o piano. Texto de Robert Southwell, con traducción al galés de Elizabeth y Gerallt Jones.

Notes on the Production Booklet

. . .has an extraordinary bleakness, like cold stone in winter sunlight. The instruments, mainly strings and percussion, are systematically drained of color, yet the final moments offer some of the mo...

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...

It is hard to believe that Benjamin Britten was 16 when he wrote the Quartettino, such is the skill and intellectual command. Peter Stadlen, The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1983

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...

El clásico coral navideño de Britten se interpreta por primera vez en francés. Maurice Budry tradujo la mayor parte de la obra, con la aprobación de Britten, y fue retransmitida por Radio Romande el d...

El clásico coral navideño de Britten se interpreta por primera vez en francés. Maurice Budry tradujo la mayor parte de la obra, con la aprobación de Britten, y fue retransmitida por Radio Romande el d...

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