1913 - 1976

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OBRAS DE BENJAMIN BRITTEN

 

Trabajos para teatro, escenario, etc...

Opus

 Título
Timon of Athens - Incidental music - 1935
Easter 1916 (Slater) - Incidental music - 1935
Stay Down Miner (Slater) - Incidental music - 1936
Agamemnon (trans. MacNeice) - Incidental music - 1936
The Ascent of F6 (Auden/Isherwood) - Incidental music - 1937
On the Frontier (Auden/Isherwood) - Incidental music - 1938
Johnson over Jordan (Priestley) - Incidental music - 1935; Estreno 1939 - New Theatre, London
This Way to the Tomb - Incidental music - 1945

43

 The Beggar's Opera (after John Gay) - Ballad Opera - 1948

45

 The Little Sweep - Opera - 1949

50

 Billy Budd - Opera - 1951 rev. 1960, Estreno 1951, Covent Garden (2 act Primera version emitida 1961 -BBC; Estreno 1964 - Covent Garden)

53

 Gloriana - Opera - 1953 - Opera - New York City Opera OperaPak; Estreno 1953 - Joan Cross, Peter Pears, Monica Sinclair, Jennifer Vyvyan, Geraint Evans, Frederick Dahlberg, Arnold Matters, Inia Te Wiata - Covent Garden

54

 The Turn of the Screw - Opera - 1954; Estreno. 1954 - Peter Pears, Jennifer Vyvyan, Joan Cross, Arda Mandikian, Olive Dyer, David Hemmings - La Fenice

57

 The Prince of the Pagodas - Ballet - 1956

59

 Noye's Fludde - Opera - 1957

64

 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Opera - 1960 ; Estreno. 1960 - Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Owen Brannigan, April Cantelo, Marjorie Thomas, Thomas Hemsley, George Moran, Peter Pears - Aldeburgh
71 Curlew River - Church parable - 1964; Estreno. 1964 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church
77 The Burning Fiery Furnace - Church parable - 1966; Estreno 1966 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church

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 The Prodigal Son - Church parable - 1968; Estreno 1968 - English Opera Group - Oxford Church
85 Owen Wingrave - Opera - 1970; Estreno 1971 - B. Luxon, J. Shirley-Quirk, J. Baker, P. Pears, J. Vyvyan, N. Douglas, S. Fisher, H. Harper, Boys of the Wandsworth School Choir, English Chamber Orquesta, Benjamin Britten - BBC2 Television
88 Death in Venice - Opera - 1973; Estreno 1973 - Peter Pears, John Shirley Quirk, James Bowman, English Opera Group, English Chamber Orquesta, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings

Trabajos corales

Opus

 Título
A Hymn to the Virgin - unacc. - 1930 rev. 1934
Christ's Nativity (The King's Birthday) 1931; Estreno 1991 - Britten Singers, Stephen Wilkinson - Aldeburgh
Three Two-Part Songs - Niños/ voces femeninas - 1932 - 1933 rev. 1955

3

 A Boy was Born - Voces infantiles, voces masculinas, voces femeninas  (con organo)
Two Two - Part Songs - SATB, piano - 1933

7

 Friday Afternoons - Voces infantiles, piano - 1935
May - Voces unisono, piano - 1934
Te Deum - Treble, SATB, org/str, arpa/piano - 1934
Two Ballads- 2 voces, piano - 1937
Pacifist March - Voces unisono, acompañamiento - 1937
Advance Democracy - SSAATTBB - 1938

14

 Ballad of Heroes - Tenor/Soprano, coros, orquesta - 1939
A.M.D.G. - SATB - 1939; Estreno 1984 - London Sinfonietta Voces, Terry Edwards - Purcell Room, London
17 Hopkins settings - withdrawn
27 Hymn to St. Cecilia - SSATB - 1942
28 A Ceremony of Carols - Treble voces, harp - 1942

30

 Rejoice in the Lamb - Tiple, Alto, Tenor, Baritono, SATB, organo - 1943
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Bernard - Voces masculinas, piano - 1943
A Shepherd's Carol - SATB - 1944
Chorale after an Old French Carol - SATB - 1944; Estreno 1944 - BBC Singers, Leslie Woodgate - BBC Radio

32

 Festival Te Deum - SATB, organo - 1945
Deus in adjuntorum - 1945
Old Joe has Gone ishing - SATB, piano
Song of the Fishermen - SATB, piano
42 St. Nicolas - Tenor, SA, 4 Tr, SATB, cuerdas, piano 4 manos, percusion, organo -1948
44 Spring Symphony - Soprano, Alto, Tenor, voces infantiles , varias voces, orquesta - 1949
46 A Wedding Anthem - Soprano, Tenor, SATB, organ - 1949

47

 Five Flower Songs - SATB - 1950
Choral Dances from Gloriana - unacc

56a

Hymn to St. Peter - Tiple, SATB, organ - 1955

56b

Antiphon - SATB, órgano - 1956
62 Cantata academica - Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritono, Coros, Orquesta - 1959
63 Missa brevis - Voces infantiles organo - 1959
Jubilate Deo - SATB, organo - 1961
Fancie - voces unisono , piano - 1961

66

 War Requiem - Soprano, Tenor, Baritono,  voces infantiles, voces mixed , orquesta,  orquesta de camara, organo - 1961

67

 Psalm CL - coro infantil, 2 voces, instrumentos - 1962
A Hymn to St. Columba - SATB, organ - 1962
The Twelve Apostles - solista,  unison chorus, piano - 1962; Estreno 1962 - Peter Pears, London Boy Singers, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh
69 Cantata misericordium - Tenor, Baritono, pequeño coro,  cuarteto de cuerdas, orquesta de cuerdas, piano, arpa, timpani - 1963
75 Voces for Today - voces infantiles doble coros, organo b - 1965; Estreno 1965 - London Symphony Orquesta Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey,Ralph
Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sung - SSAA - 1931 (1966); Estreno 1966 - Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst - Aldeburgh
78 The Golden Vanity - voces infantiles, piano - 1966; Estreno 1967 - Vienna Boys' Choir -Aldeburgh, The Oxen - Coros femenino  2 voces, piano - 1967
The Sycamore Tree - SATB - 1930 (1967); Estreno 1968 - Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger - Aldeburgh
A Wealden Trio - SSA - 1929 (1967); Estreno 1968 - Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger - Aldeburgh
82 Children's Crusade -  voces infantiles, percusion, 2 pianos, organo - 1968; Estreno 1969 - Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Russell Burgess - St. Paul's Cathedral
91 Sacred and Profane - 5 voces - 1975; Estreno 1975 - Wilbye Consort of Voces, Peter Pears - Snape Maltings
95 Welcome Ode - young people's voces, orquesta - 1976; Estreno 1977 - Suffolk Schools' Choir and Orquesta, Keith Shaw
Praise we great men - SATB, SATB, orquesta - 1976 (completado por Colin Matthews 1985); Estreno 1985 - Marie McLaughlin, Heather Harper, Philip
Obras para Solistas

Opus

 Título
Beware! - voice, piano - 1925
Quatre Chansons Françaises - Soprano, orquesta - 1928; Estreno 1980 - Heather Harper, English Chamber Orquesta, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings
The Birds - Mezzo/Baritone, piano - 1929 rev. 1934
The Ship of Rio - voz, piano - 1932 (1963)
A Poison Tree - Baritone, piano - 1935; Estreno 1986 - Henry Herford, Ian Brown - Wigmore Hall
When you're feeling like expressing your affection - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1935/6; Estreno 1992 Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

8

 Our Hunting Fathers - Soprano/Tenor, orquesta - 1936
Underneath the Abject Willow - Tenor, piano - 1936(?)

11

 On this Island - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937
Cabaret Songs - Soprano, piano - 1937
Not even summer yet - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937; Estreno 1937 - Nell Moody, Gordon Thorne
To lie flat on the back with knees flexed - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937
Night covers up the rigid land - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1937
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1938
The Red Cockatoo - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1938; Estreno 1991 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Snape Maltings

18

 Les illuminations - Soprano/Tenor - 1939

22

 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo - Tenor, piano - 1940
Underneath the Abject Willow - Soprano, Tenor, piano - 1941
Song, on the water ("Wild with passion") - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; Estreno 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church
Dirge for Wolfram ("If thou wilt ease thy heart") - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; Estreno 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church
Cradle Song for Eleanor - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1942; Estreno 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

31

 Serenade - Tenor, viento y cuerdas - 1943
Now sleeps the crimson petal - Tenor, viento y cuerdas - 1943
Three Arias from Peter Grimes - Tenor, Soprano, piano/orquesta

35

 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1945
Birthday Song for Erwin - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1945; Estreno 1988 - Christopher Hobkirk, Rosalind Jones - RCM
Three Arias from The Rape of Lucretia - Alto, Tenor, Mezzo, piano/orquesta

40

 Canticle I "My beloved is mine" - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1947

41

 A Charm of Lullabies - Mezzo, piano - 1947

51

 Canticle II "Abraham and Isaac" - Alto, Tenor, piano - 1952

52

Winter Words - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953
If it's ever spring again - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953
The children and Sir Nameless - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1953

55

 Canticle III "Still Falls the Rain" - Tenor, Viento, piano - 1954
The Heart of the Matter - Narrador, tenor, Tuba, piano - 1956

58

 Songs from the Chinese - Soprano/Tenor, guitarra - 1957

60

 Nocturne - Tenor, 7 obbligato instrumentos, orquesta cuerda - 1958

61

 Sechs Hölderin - Fragmente - voice, piano - 1958
Bottom's Dream from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bass - Baritone, piano/orquesta
Um Mitternacht - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1959/60; Estreno 1992 - Lucy Shelton, Ian Brown - Blythburgh Church

74

 Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - Baritone, piano - 1965; Estreno 1965 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Britten - Aldeburgh

76

 The Poet's Echo - Soprano/Tenor, piano - 1965; Estreno 1965 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich - Moscow
Tit for Tat - Voz, piano - 1931 (1968); Estreno 1969 - John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh

84

 Who are these Children? - Tenor, piano - 1969; Estreno 1971 - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten - National Gallery, Edinburgh

86

 Canticle IV "The Journey of the Magi" - Countertenor, Tenor, Baritone, piano - 1971; Estreno 1971 - James Bowman, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Benjamin Britten - Snape Maltings

89

 Canticle V "The Death of Narcissus" - Tenor, harp - 1974; Estreno 1975 - Peter Pears, Osian Ellis - Schloss Elmau, Bavaria

92

 A Birthday Hansel - Soprano, Arpa - 1975; Estreno 1976 - Peter Pears, Osian Ellis - Schloss Elmau, Bavaria

93

 Phaedra - Mezzo, cuerdas, percussion, 'cello, harpsichord - 1975; Estreno 1976 - Janet Baker, English Chamber Orquesta, Steuart Bedford - Snape Maltings
The Sun Shines Down - Tenor, piano - (?)
What's on your mind? - Tenor, piano - (?)
Música para la Radio

Opus

Título
The Company of Heaven - 1937; Estreno 1937 - Felix Aylmer, Ian Dawson, Stewart Rome, Sophie Wyss, Peter Pears, BBC C & O, Trevor Harvey - BBC Radio King Arthur - 1937
Hadrian's Wall - 1937
The World of the Spirit - 1938
The Sword in the Stone - 1939
An American in England - 1942
The Rescue - 1943

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