Collected Songs BRITTEN BENJAMIN

Classique

Contenu

The Birds
A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41:
A Cradle Song
The Highland Balou
Sephestia's Lullaby
A Charm
The Nurse's Song
Evening, Morning, Night (three songs from This Way to the Tomb):
Evening
Morning
Night
Fish in the unruffled lakes:
To lie flat on the back
Night covers up the rigid land
The sun shines down
Fish in the unruffled lakes
What's in your mind?
Underneath the abject willow
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35:
Oh my black Soule!
Batter my heart
O might those sighes and teares
Oh, to vex me
What if this present
Since she whom I loved
At the round earth's imagined corners
Thou hast made me
Death, be not proud
On This Island, Op. 11:
Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is, plenty
Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Op. 61:
Menschenbeifall
Die Heimat
Sokrates und Alcibiades
Die Jugend
Hälfte des Lebens
Die Linien des Lebens
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22:
Sonetto XVI: Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro
Sonetto XXXI: A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
Sonetto LV: Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai
Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume
Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pietà supena
Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58 (transcribed for voice and piano):
The Big Chariot
The Old Lute
The Autumn Wind
The Herd-Boy
Depression
Dance Song
Three Songs from The Heart of the Matter:
Prologue ("Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire")
Song ("We are the darkness in the heat of the day")
Epilogue ("So, out of the dark")
(Horn Part)
Winter Words, Op. 52:
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
Cut from Winter Words:
If it's ever spring again
The Children and Sir Nameless
Two Ballads (duet):
Mother Comfort
Underneath the abject willow

Description :

63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano published by Boosey and Hawkes. Available for for High Voice as well as for Medium/Low Voice, with newly published transpositions as necessary.