Britten's Complete Works

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Stage works, Choral, Solo Vocal, Music for the Radio, Orchestral, Instrumental, Music for Film, Arrangements

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Folksong Arrangements

Volume 1 (British) - voice and piano - 1943
Volume 2 (French) - voice and piano - 1946
Volume 3 (British) - voice and piano - 1947
Volume 4 (Irish) - voice and piano - 1960
Volume 5 (British) - voice and piano - 1961
Volume 6 (British) - voice and guitar - 1961
8 Folksong Arrangements - voice and piano - 1976
The Bonny Earl o' Moray - voice and orchestra -
Come You Not from Newcastle? - voice and orchestra -
Little Sir William - voice and orchestra -
O Can Ye Sew Cushions? - voice and orchestra -
Oliver Cromwell - voice and orchestra -
The Plough Boy - voice and orchestra -
The Sally Gardens - voice, strings, bassoon and harp -
The Sally Gardens - voice and strings -
O waly, Waly - voice and orchestra -
La noël pasée - voice and orchestra -
Fileuse - voice and orchestra -
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse - voice and orchestra -
La belle est au jardin d'amour - voice and orchestra -
Eho! Eho! - voice and orchestra -
Quand j'etais chez mon père - voice and orchestra -
Greensleeves - -
I wonder as I wander - -
The Crocodile - -
Pray Goody - -
The Holly and the Ivy - -
Soldier, won't you marry me? - -
The Deaf Woman's Courtship - -
The Stream in the Valley - -
Unidentified Folksong melody - -
The Holly and the Ivy - unnaccompanied voices - 1957
King Herod and the Cock - unison voices and piano - 1965
The Twelve Apostles - solo voice, unison chorus, piano - 1962
f.p. 16 June 1962 - Peter Pears, London Boy Singers, Benjamin Britten
The Bitter Withy - -
Oliver Cromwell - unison voices, piano -
The Salley Gardens - unison voices, piano -

Purcell Realizations

Dido and Aeneas - with Imogen Holst - 1951
f.p. 1 May 1951 - English Opera Group, Benjamin Britten - Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
The Fairy Queen - with Imogen Holst, Philip Ledger and Peter Pears - 1967
f.p. 25 June 1967 - conducted by Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings
Orpheus britannicus: Seven songs - with Peter Pears - voice and piano - 1947
Orpheus britannicus: Six songs - with Peter Pears - voice and piano - 1948
Orpheus britannicus: Five songs - with Peter Pears - voice and piano - 1960
Orpheus britannicus: Six duets - with Peter Pears - 2 voices and piano - 1961
Orpheus britannicus: Suite of songs - with Peter Pears - high voice and orchestra -
Orpheus britannicus: Three songs - with Peter Pears - high voice and orchestra -
Harmonia sacra: Odes and Elegies: The Queen's Epicedium - high voice and piano - 1946
Harmonia sacra: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - high voice and piano - 1947
Harmonia sacra: Saul and the Witch of Endor - Soprano, Tenor, Baritone and piano - 1947
Harmonia sacra: Three Divine Hymns - voice and piano - 1947
Harmonia sacra: Job's Curse - high voice and piano - 1947
Harmonia sacra: Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia - high voice and piano - 1960
A Miscellany of Songs: The Knotting Song - high/medium voice and piano - 1939
f.p. 19 November 1939 - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - Hotel Henry Perkins, Riverhead, New York
A Miscellany of Songs: O Solitude - high/medium voice and piano - 1955
f.p. 11 March 1955 - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - Wigmore Hall, London
A Miscellany of Songs: Celemene - soprano, tenor and piano - 1946
f.p. 10 February 1946 - Joan Cross, Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - Cambridge Arts Theatre
A Miscellany of Songs: Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss - soprano or tenor, bass and piano - 1971, published 1994
f.p. 26 June 1971 - James Bowman, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings
A Miscellany of Songs: When Myra sings - soprano or tenor, bass and piano - 1971, published 1994
f.p. 26 June 1971 - Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings
Let the dreadful engines of eternal will - - 1971
f.p. 26 June 1971 - John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings
When night her purple veil has softly spread - baritone, 2 violins and continuo -
f.p. 24 June 1965 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, members of the Alberni String Quartet, Benjamin Britten
Chacony in g minor - string quartet or string orchestra -
f.p. - 1948 - Aldeburgh
The Golden Sonata - 2 violins, 'cello and piano -
f.p. - members of the Zorian Quartet, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh

Other Arrangements

Harmonia sacra: Pelham Humphries - Lord! I have sinned - voice and harp - 1975
Harmonia sacra: Pelham Humphries - Hymn to God the Father - voice and harp - 1975
Harmonia sacra: William Croft - A hymn on Divine Musick - voice and harp - 1975
John Gay - The Beggar's Opera - -
God Save the Queen (National Anthem) - SATB and orchestra -
Johann Sebastian Bach - Five Spiritual Songs - high voice and piano (trans. Pears) -
f.p. 18 June 1969 - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh Festival
God Save the Queen - orchestra - 1971
f.p. 13 June 1971 - English Chamber Orchestra - Snape Maltings
Gustav Mahler - "What the Wild Flowers Tell Me" (Symphony number 3 - second movement) - reduced orchestra -

Concerto Cadenzas

Franz Josef Haydn - 'Cello concerto in C major - -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano concerto in E-flat major, K482 - - 1966
f.p. - July 1966- Sviatoslav Richter

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