Benjamin Britten
Composer
Benjamin Britten
1913 - 1976Biography
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
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Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| 1. Ekha, 'Echo' (1965) Op. 76 no.1 | Benjamin Britten |
| 1. Fanfare | Benjamin Britten |
| 2. Villes | Benjamin Britten |
| 2. Ya dumal, serdtse pozabïlo 'My heart, I fancied it was over' | Benjamin Britten |
| 3. Angel | Benjamin Britten |
| 3a. Phrase | Benjamin Britten |
| 3b. Antique | Benjamin Britten |
| 4. Royauté | Benjamin Britten |
| 4. Solovey i roza 'The nightingale and the rose' | Benjamin Britten |
| 5. Epigramma 'Epigram' | Benjamin Britten |
| 5. Marine | Benjamin Britten |
| 6. Interlude | Benjamin Britten |
| 6. Stikhi, sochinennïye noch'yu vo vremya bessonnitsï, 'Lines written during a sleepless night' (1965) Op. 76 no.6 | Benjamin Britten |
| 7. Being beauteous | Benjamin Britten |
| 8. Parade | Benjamin Britten |
| 9. Départ | Benjamin Britten |
| A Charm (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| A Charm of Lullabies (1947) Op. 41 | Benjamin Britten |
| A Cradle Song (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| A Highland Balou (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| A Laddie's Sang Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| A morning hymn (1960) Z198 | Benjamin Britten |
| A Poison Tree (1965) Op. 74 no.6 | Benjamin Britten |
| A Riddle 'The child you were' Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| A Riddle 'The Earth' Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| A Song of Enchantment | Benjamin Britten |
| A Sweet Lullaby (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| Ah, Sun-flower (1965) Op. 74 no.12 | Benjamin Britten |
| As it is, plenty | Benjamin Britten |
| At day-close in November (1853) Op. 52 no.1 | Benjamin Britten |
| At the mid hour of night (1960) | Benjamin Britten |
| At the railway station, Upway - 'The convict and the boy with the violin' (1853) Op. 53 no.7 | Benjamin Britten |
| At the round earth's imagined corners, blew (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Autumn | Benjamin Britten |
| Batter my heart (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Bed-time Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Before life and after (1853) Op. 52 no.8 | Benjamin Britten |
| Bist du bei mir (1969) BWV 508 | Benjamin Britten |
| Black Day (1969) Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Bonny at Morn (from 'Folk Songs' - Volume 6) (1958) | Benjamin Britten |
| Ca' the yowes | Benjamin Britten |
| Cabaret Songs (1978) | Benjamin Britten |
| Calypso | Benjamin Britten |
| Canticle I: ‘My beloved is mine and I am his’ (1947) Op. 40 | Benjamin Britten |
| Canticle II 'Abraham and Isaac' (1952) Op. 51 | Benjamin Britten |
| Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op. 55 | Benjamin Britten |
| Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi, Op. 86 | Benjamin Britten |
| Canticle V: The death of Saint Narcissus, Op. 89 | Benjamin Britten |
| Come you not from Newcastle? | Benjamin Britten |
| Dear Harp of my Country! | Benjamin Britten |
| Death be not proud, though some have called thee (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Down by the Salley Gardens (1943) | Benjamin Britten |
| Early one morning | Benjamin Britten |
| Ekho poeta, 'The poet's echo' (1965) Op. 76 | Benjamin Britten |
| Epilogue: So, out of the dark | Benjamin Britten |
| Every Night and every Morn (1965) Op. 74 no.14 | Benjamin Britten |
| Fancy (1964) | Benjamin Britten |
| Fish in the unruffled lakes | Benjamin Britten |
| Five Spiritual Songs - Geistliche Lieder (1969) | Benjamin Britten |
| Funeral Blues | Benjamin Britten |
| Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke (1969) | Benjamin Britten |
| How sweet the answer | Benjamin Britten |
| I will give my love an apple | Benjamin Britten |
| Il est quelqu' un sur terre (1942) | Benjamin Britten |
| Irish Folk Song Arrangements (1960) | Benjamin Britten |
| Johnny | Benjamin Britten |
| Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag (1969) | Benjamin Britten |
| Lachrymae (for viola and piano) (1950) Op. 48 | Benjamin Britten |
| Le Roi s'en va-t'en chasse | Benjamin Britten |
| Lemady | Benjamin Britten |
| Les Illuminations | Benjamin Britten |
| Let the florid music praise | Benjamin Britten |
| Liebster Herr Jesu (1969) | Benjamin Britten |
| London (1965) Op. 74 no.2 | Benjamin Britten |
| Mad Bess (1948) Z370 | Benjamin Britten |
| Midnight on the Great Western - 'The journeying boy' (1853) Op. 52 no.2 | Benjamin Britten |
| Night covers up the rigid land | Benjamin Britten |
| Nightmare Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Nocturne | Benjamin Britten |
| Now the leaves are falling fast | Benjamin Britten |
| O can ye sew cushions? (1940) | Benjamin Britten |
| O might those sighes and teares returne againe into my breast and eyes (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| O my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| O the sight entrancing (1960) | Benjamin Britten |
| Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Oliver Cromwell (1942) | Benjamin Britten |
| On This Island (1937) Op. 11 | Benjamin Britten |
| Prologue: Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire | Benjamin Britten |
| Proud Songsters - 'Thrushes, finches and nightingales' (1853) Op. 52 no.6 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb I (1965) Op. 74 no.1 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb II (1965) Op. 74 no.3 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb III (1965) Op. 74 no.5 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb IV (1965) Op. 74 no.7 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb V (1965) Op. 74 no.9 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb VI (1965) Op. 74 no.11 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb VII (1965) Op. 74 no.13 | Benjamin Britten |
| Proverb VII (1965) Op. 74 no.13 | Benjamin Britten |
| Rich and Rare | Benjamin Britten |
| Sally in our alley | Benjamin Britten |
| Seascape | Benjamin Britten |
| Sephestia's Lullaby (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1942) Op. 22 | Benjamin Britten |
| Silver | Benjamin Britten |
| Since she whom I love hath payd her last debt (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Slaughter Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sokrates und Alcibiades (1963) | Benjamin Britten |
| Solovey i roza, 'The Nightingale and the Rose' (1965) | Benjamin Britten |
| Somnus (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto LV (1942) Op. 22 no.4 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XVI (1942) Op. 22 no.1 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XXIV (1942) Op. 22 no.7 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XXX (1942) Op. 22 no.3 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XXXI (1942) Op. 22 no.2 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XXXII (1942) Op. 22 no.6 | Benjamin Britten |
| Sonetto XXXVIII (1942) Op. 22 no.5 | Benjamin Britten |
| Song: We are the darkness in the heat of the day | Benjamin Britten |
| Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965) Op. 74 | Benjamin Britten |
| Supper Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Tell me the Truth About Love | Benjamin Britten |
| The ash grove | Benjamin Britten |
| The Auld Aik Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| The Children Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| The Chimney-Sweeper (1965) Op. 74 no.4 | Benjamin Britten |
| The choirmaster's burial - 'The tenor man's story' (1853) Op. 52 no.5 | Benjamin Britten |
| The crocodile | Benjamin Britten |
| The Fly (1965) Op. 74 no.10 | Benjamin Britten |
| The Foggy Foggy Dew | Benjamin Britten |
| The Heart of the Matter | Benjamin Britten |
| The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1945) Op. 35 | Benjamin Britten |
| The Larky Lad Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| The little old table (1853) Op. 52 no.4 | Benjamin Britten |
| The Nurse's Song (1947) | Benjamin Britten |
| The plough boy | Benjamin Britten |
| The Second Lute Song of the Earl of Essex (from Gloriana) (1957) | Benjamin Britten |
| The trees they grow so high | Benjamin Britten |
| The Tyger (1965) Op. 74 no.8 | Benjamin Britten |
| There's none to soothe | Benjamin Britten |
| This is thy negligence | Benjamin Britten |
| Thou hast made me, and shall they work decay? (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Tit for Tat | Benjamin Britten |
| Tit for Tat | Benjamin Britten |
| Um Mitternacht (1959) | Benjamin Britten |
| Vigil | Benjamin Britten |
| Wagtail and baby - 'A satire' (1853) Op. 52 no.3 | Benjamin Britten |
| Welcome, wanderer … I know a bank | Benjamin Britten |
| What if this present were the world's last night? (1945) | Benjamin Britten |
| Who are these children? (1969) Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Who are these children? Op. 84 | Benjamin Britten |
| Wild with passion | Benjamin Britten |
| Winter Words (1953) Op. 52 | Benjamin Britten |
