Dale Warland Choral Series-Matthew Culloton's Balulalow for Soprano soloist and SATB choir with Piano accompaniment. This text by the Wedderburns is best known from Benjamin Britten's timeless “ACeremony of Carols.” This setting serves as a “manger lullaby ” with the Soprano soloist representing Mary.

Timeless Cornish Melodies Cooked Up For Hungry Brass Players-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yet entirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) Trombone and Tuba (bass clef) Horn in F Flute Clarinet and Bassoon. While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture – I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally ideally sung and played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan

Par TURNAGE MARK-ANTHONY. This work was composed in 2017–18 and first performed on 20 September 2019 at Milton Court, Barbican, London, by Allan Clayton (tenor) with the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Gourlay. This 22 minute work comprises of five movements and contains texts by Emily Dickinson, Benjamin Zephaniah, W.H. Auden, and Brian Bilston. It was commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and supported by the generosity and vision of donors to Britten Sinfonia’s Musically Gifted campaign. This orchestral song cycle is set to four poems, displaying elements of jazz, soul and gospel. Suitable for advanced standard performers. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Répertoire / Ténor et Orchestre de Chambre

Oratorio-The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett’s artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel’s Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. Tippett’s use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach settings draws his audience more closely into the drama through the spirituals’ ‘unique verbal and musical metaphor’.By 1941 when Tippett hadcompleted the composition of his oratorio the practicalities of staging a performance during wartime were difficult to say the least. It was however through the direct agency of his lifelong friends and professional colleagues Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears that the work was first performed in London on 19 March 1944 under the direction of the former Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr and with Pears himself as the tenor soloist.

This cantata was written about the life of Saint Nicolas the Bishop Of Myra who is the patron-saint of Children Sea Men and Travellers. It was commissioned for performance at the Centenary Celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex on July 24th 1948. For SATB Choir.

Study score for Britten's early and ambitious three-movement work (1932) for Violin Viola and Orchestra brought to light and edited by Colin Matthews for it first performance at the 1997 Aldeburgh Festival.

Professionnel ou amateur de Classique vous apprécierez cette partition de musique. Composée par Britten Benjamin et éditée par Boosey

A song cycle with text by Francis Ledwidge and music by Michael Head. For old time songs for high voice that are reminiscent of the secular songs of Benjamin Britten. With full Piano accompaniment.

12 of Britten's distinctive folksong arrangements chosen specifically for student singers. Includes The Ash Grove; Early One Morning; Greensleeves; O Waly Waly; Sail on sail on; The Salley Gardens; Sweet Polly Oliver and There's none to soothe.Includes historical notes and CD with performances and Piano accompaniments for all the pieces.

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Britten began composing his Quatre chansons francaises in June 1928 and had finished the full score by August of that year, before his 15th birthday. The songs reflect the impact of his lessons with Frank Bridge, which had begun in the autumn of 1927, and he dedicated the work, which was among the most ambitious of his compositions at this time, to his parents, on the occasion of their 27th wedding anniversary. There was no performance of the songs until 1980./ Répertoire / Conducteur