Benjamin Britten - Classical Archives

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Recordings: 6,350 tracks
Stage Works
- Operas
- Other Stage Works
Vocal Works
Orchestral Works
Chamber Works
- Works for Cello
- Other Chamber Works
Keyboard Works

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Stage Works
1,468 tracks
- Operas
  1,379 tracks
  - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.64 (opera)
    83 tracks
  - Albert Herring, Op.39 (chamber opera)
    195 tracks
  - Beggar's Opera
    71 tracks
  - Billy Budd, Op.50 (opera)
    88 tracks
  - Death in Venice (opera in 2 acts), Op.88
    118 tracks
  - Gloriana, Op.53 (opera)
    169 tracks
  - Noye's Fludde, Op.59 (children's opera)
    22 tracks
  - Owen Wingrave, Op.85 (opera)
    40 tracks
  - Paul Bunyan, Op.17 (operetta)
    43 tracks
  - Peter Grimes, Op.33 (opera)
    349 tracks
  - Rape of Lucretia, Op.37 (chamber opera)
    99 tracks
  - Turn of the Screw, Op.54 (chamber opera)
    102 tracks
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  Other Stage Works
  89 tracks
  - Curlew River, Op.71 (church parable)
    31 tracks
  - Johnson over Jordan, incidental music for soprano, flute, and orchestra
    22 tracks
  - Prince of the Pagodas, Op.57 (ballet)
    36 tracks
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Vocal Works
2,312 tracks
- Songs Cycles, Folksong Collections, etc.
  1,076 tracks
  - Friday Afternoons, Op.7
    1 track
  - A Birthday Hansel, for tenor and harp, Op.92 (song cycle)
    23 tracks
  - A Charm of Lullabies, for voice and piano, Op.41
    41 tracks
  - Beware! 3 early songs, for voice and piano
    1 track
  - Cabaret Songs for Hedli Anderson (texts by W.H. Auden)
    19 tracks
  - 4 Chansons Françaises, for voice and orchestra
    8 tracks
  - 8 Folksong Arrangements for High Voice and Harp
    21 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.1 ('British Isles')
    54 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.2 ('France')
    23 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.3 ('British Isles')
    48 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.4 ('Moore's Irish Melodies')
    40 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.5 ('British Isles')
    21 tracks
  - Folksong Arrangements, Vol.6 ('England'; for voice and guitar)
    37 tracks
  - 6 Hölderlin Fragment, for tenor and piano, Op.61 (song cycle)
    13 tracks
  - Les Illuminations, Op.18 (song cycle; text by Rimbaud; for voice and strings)
    203 tracks
  - Nocturne, Op.60 (song cycle)
    51 tracks
  - On this Island, Op.11 (song cycle)
    26 tracks
  - Our Hunting Fathers, for high voice and orchestra, Op.8 (song cycle)
    10 tracks
  - Purcell Realizations from Orpheus Britannicus, 6 Songs for voice and piano
    4 tracks
  - Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Op.31 (song cycle)
    121 tracks
  - Songs and Proverbs of W. Blake (song cycle)
    35 tracks
  - Songs from the Chinese, for high voice and guitar, Op.58 (song cycle)
    42 tracks
  - 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op.22 (song cycle)
    56 tracks
  - The Heart of the Matter, for tenor, narrator, horn, piano (song cycle)
    13 tracks
  - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (song cycle), Op.35
    54 tracks
  - The Poet's Echo, for high voice and piano, Op.76 (song cycle)
    13 tracks
  - Tit for Tat (song cycle)
    10 tracks
  - Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements
    16 tracks
  - Who are these Children?, for tenor and piano, Op.84 (song cycle)
    30 tracks
  - Winter Words, for tenor and piano, Op.52 (song cycle)
    41 tracks
  - Hadrian's Wall, for voice and piano
    1 track
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  Solo Songs and Other Solo Vocal Works
  53 tracks
  - The Birds (song)
    4 tracks
  - Canticle 1: My Beloved Is Mine, for high voice and piano, Op.40
    4 tracks
  - Canticle 2: Abraham and Isaac, for alto, tenor, and piano, Op.51
    6 tracks
  - Canticle 3: Still Falls the Rain, for tenor, horn and piano, Op.55
    4 tracks
  - Canticle 4: The Journey of the Magi, for countertenor, tenor, baritone and piano, Op.86
    4 tracks
  - Canticle 5: The Death of St.Narcissus, for tenor and harp, Op.89
    6 tracks
  - Children and Sir Nameless (song)
    2 tracks
  - Corpus Christi Carol (song)
    5 tracks
  - A Divine Hymn (Jeremiah Clarke; song)
    1 track
  - Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (song)
    3 tracks
  - If it's ever spring again (song)
    2 tracks
  - Night covers up the rigid land (song)
    1 track
  - Now sleeps the crimson petal, for tenor, horn and strings (song)
    2 tracks
  - The Sun Shines Down (song)
    1 track
  - To Lie Flat on the Back (song)
    1 track
  - Underneath the Abject Willow, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and piano
    2 tracks
  - What's in Your Mind? (song)
    1 track
  - When You’re Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection (song)
    2 tracks
  - Wild with passion, song for high voice and piano
    1 track
  - Britain to America, for voice and chorus
    1 track
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  Accompanied Choral Works
  601 tracks
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  A cappella Choral Works
  582 tracks
  - A Boy Was Born, choral variations, Op.3
    58 tracks
  - A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28
    289 tracks
  - A Hymn to the Virgin, for double chorus
    39 tracks
  - A Shepherd's Carol, for chorus
    1 track
  - A Wealden Trio: The Song of the Women, carol for female chorus
    1 track
  - A.M.D.G. (Ad majorem Dei gratiam)
    23 tracks
  - Advance Democracy, for double chorus
    5 tracks
  - 6 Choral Dances from Gloriana, for a cappella chorus (or tenor, chorus, and harp), Op.53
    25 tracks
  - Chorale on an Old French Carol, for double chorus
    3 tracks
  - Christ's Nativity, Christmas suite for chorus
    6 tracks
  - Deus in adjutorium meum, 'Psalm 70' motet for chorus (from 'This Way to the Tomb')
    3 tracks
  - 5 Flower Songs, Op.47
    30 tracks
  - Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op.27
    31 tracks
  - Jubilate Deo in Eb
    2 tracks
  - 8 Sacred and Profane Medieval Lyrics, for SSATB chorus, Op.91
    51 tracks
  - Sweet was the Song, carol for female chorus
    5 tracks
  - The Company of Heaven
    1 track
  - The Holly and the Ivy, folksong arrangement for chorus
    1 track
  - The Sycamore Tree, carol
    1 track
  - 3 Two-Part Songs, for boys' or female chorus
    6 tracks
  - Venite exultemus Domino
    1 track
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Orchestral Works
1,459 tracks
- Symphonies
  170 tracks
  - Simple Symphony, Op.4
    91 tracks
  - Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.20
    39 tracks
  - Spring Symphony, for soprano, alto, tenor, boys' chorus, chorus, and orchestra, Op.44
    40 tracks
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  Concertos and Similar Works
  294 tracks
  - Cello Symphony, Op.68
    55 tracks
  - Diversions, for piano left hand and orchestra, Op.21
    52 tracks
  - Gloriana, symphonic suite for tenor (or oboe) and orchestra, Op.53a
    20 tracks
  - Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of Dowland, for viola and string orchestra, Op.48a
    58 tracks
  - Piano Concerto in D, Op.13
    43 tracks
  - 2 Portraits, for viola and orchestra
    4 tracks
  - Scottish Ballad, for 2 pianos and orchestra, Op.26
    2 tracks
  - Violin Concerto in D-, Op.15
    50 tracks
  - Rondo Concertante, for piano and strings (incomplete)
    2 tracks
  - In Memoriam Dennis Brain, for 4 horns and strings (sketch)
    2 tracks
  - Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, for clarinet and strings (realization of sketches by C. Matthews)
    3 tracks
  - Double Concerto for Violin & Viola, Op.88a
    3 tracks
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  Other Orchestral Works
  995 tracks
  - An American Overture
    2 tracks
  - Canadian Carnival, Op.19
    1 track
  - Coal Face, film score
    13 tracks
  - King Arthur, suite
    8 tracks
  - Love from a Stranger, film score for orchestra
    7 tracks
  - Matinées musicales, Op.24 ('Rossini Suite No.2')
    22 tracks
  - Men Behind the Meters, film score
    3 tracks
  - Men of Goodwill, variations on a carol
    1 track
  - Negroes/God's Chillun, film score
    8 tracks
  - Night Mail, film score
    3 tracks
  - Occasional Overture in C, Op.38 (withdrawn)
    1 track
  - Passacaglia (from Peter Grimes), Op.33b
    10 tracks
  - Peace of Britain
    1 track
  - 4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
    109 tracks
  - Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra, Op.1
    14 tracks
  - Soirées Musicales, Op.9 ('Rossini Suite No.1')
    20 tracks
  - Suite on English folk tunes (A time there was), Op.90
    41 tracks
  - Telegrams, film score
    1 track
  - The King's Stamp, film score
    10 tracks
  - The Prince of the Pagodas, Op.57a (suite from the ballet)
    21 tracks
  - The Tocher Suite, from ballet film
    5 tracks
  - The Way to the Sea, film score
    11 tracks
  - Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, for strings, Op.10
    254 tracks
  - Variations on an Elizabethan Theme: Variation 4, for orchestra (movement of collaborative work)
    1 track
  - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell), for speaker ad lib and orchestra, Op.34
    409 tracks
  - Elegy for Strings
    1 track
  - An American in England, for orchestra
    11 tracks
  - Untitled Fragment, for strings
    1 track
  - The Sword in the Stone Suite (Arr. O. Knussen and C. Matthews)
    6 tracks
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Chamber Works
1,077 tracks
- Works for Cello
  541 tracks
  - Cello Sonata in C, Op.65
    90 tracks
  - Folk Song Setting (arr. cello and piano)
    1 track
  - Solo Cello Suite No.1, Op.72
    173 tracks
  - Solo Cello Suite No.2, Op.80
    85 tracks
  - Solo Cello Suite No.3, Op.87
    188 tracks
  - Tema 'Sacher,' for solo cello
    4 tracks
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  Other Chamber Works
  536 tracks
  - Alla marcia, for string quartet
    5 tracks
  - 3 Divertimenti for String Quartet
    27 tracks
  - Elegy, for solo viola
    3 tracks
  - Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury, for trumpets in multiples of 3
    5 tracks
  - Gemini Variations, for flute, violin, and piano, 4 hands, Op.73
    14 tracks
  - 2 Insect Pieces, for oboe and piano
    12 tracks
  - Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of Dowland, Op.48a
    2 tracks
  - 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op.49
    43 tracks
  - Miniature Suite for String Quartet
    4 tracks
  - Nocturnal after John Dowland, for guitar, Op.70
    101 tracks
  - Phantasy Quartet in F-, for oboe and string trio, Op.2
    10 tracks
  - Prelude and Fugue, for 18 strings, Op.29
    14 tracks
  - Quartettino for String Quartet
    6 tracks
  - Reflection, for viola and piano
    1 track
  - Russian Funeral, for brass and percussion
    2 tracks
  - String Quartet in D
    5 tracks
  - String Quartet in F
    8 tracks
  - String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.25
    17 tracks
  - String Quartet No.2 in C, Op.36
    24 tracks
  - String Quartet No.3, Op.94
    60 tracks
  - Suite for Violin and Piano, Op.6
    41 tracks
  - Suite in C, for harp, Op.83
    47 tracks
  - Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano
    64 tracks
  - Young Apollo, for piano, string quartet, and strings, Op.16 (withdrawn by composer)
    2 tracks
  - Gloriana: Courtly Dances
    7 tracks
  - The Second Lute-Song of the Earl of Essex (From Gloriana)
    1 track
  - There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook (arr. B. Britten for viola and piano)
    1 track
  - Reveille, for violin and piano
    1 track
  - Etude, for viola
    1 track
  - Valse in B, for violin and piano
    1 track
  - Simple Symphony, Op.4 (version for string quartet)
    4 tracks
  - Phantasy in F-, for string quintet
    1 track
  - Rhapsody, for string quartet
    1 track
  - Bagatelle, for piano trio
    1 track
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Keyboard Works
34 tracks
- A Little Idyll, for piano
  1 track
- Holiday Diary, Op.5
  9 tracks
- Night Piece (Notturno), for piano
  4 tracks
- 2 Pieces for 2 Pianos, Op.23
  7 tracks
- Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria, for organ
  1 track
- 5 Waltzes, for piano
  5 tracks
- Variations for piano (incomplete)
  7 tracks

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Free Play: 31 tracks
Stage Works
- Operas
- Other Stage Works
Vocal Works
- Songs Cycles, Folksong Collections, etc.
- Solo Songs and Other Solo Vocal Works
- Accompanied Choral Works
- A cappella Choral Works
Orchestral Works
- Symphonies
- Concertos and Similar Works
- Other Orchestral Works
Chamber Works
- Works for Cello
- Other Chamber Works
Keyboard Works

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Vocal Works
17 tracks
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  Accompanied Choral Works
  5 tracks
  - Missa Brevis, for boys' chorus and organ in D, Op.63
    5 tracks
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  A cappella Choral Works
  12 tracks
  - A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28
    12 tracks
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Orchestral Works
4 tracks
- Symphonies
  4 tracks
  - Simple Symphony, Op.4
    4 tracks
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Chamber Works
10 tracks
- Works for Cello
  5 tracks
  - Cello Sonata in C, Op.65
    5 tracks
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  Other Chamber Works
  5 tracks
  - Suite in C, for harp, Op.83
    5 tracks

Below are works by B.Britten that every music lover should explore:

Stage Works
- Billy Budd, Op.50 (opera)
  88 tracks
- Peter Grimes, Op.33 (opera)
  349 tracks
- Turn of the Screw, Op.54 (chamber opera)
  102 tracks
Vocal Works
- Les Illuminations, Op.18 (song cycle; text by Rimbaud; for voice and strings)
  203 tracks
- Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Op.31 (song cycle)
  121 tracks
- War Requiem, for STB soloists, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra, and organ, Op.66
  154 tracks
- A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28
  289 tracks
Orchestral Works
- Simple Symphony, Op.4
  91 tracks
- 4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a
  109 tracks
- Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, for strings, Op.10
  254 tracks
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell), for speaker ad lib and orchestra, Op.34
  409 tracks
Chamber Works
- Cello Sonata in C, Op.65
  90 tracks

Composer

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976); ENG