Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

Our Hunting Fathers 1 Op.8
  1. Rats Away!
  2. Messalina
  3. Dance of Death
On This Island Op.11
  1. Let the florid music praise !
  2. Now the leaves are falling fast
  3. Seascape
  4. Nocturne
  5. As it is, plenty
Les Illuminations 1 Op.18
  1. Fanfare
  2. Villes
  3. a. Phrase
    b. Antique
  4. Royauté
  5. Marine
  6. Interlude
  7. Being beauteous
  8. Parade
  9. Départ
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op.22
  1. Sonnet XVI
  2. Sonnet XXXI
  3. Sonnet XXX
  4. Sonnet LV
  5. Sonnet XXXVIII
  6. Sonnet XXXII
  7. Sonnet XXIV
Serenade 1 Op.31
  1. Pastoral
  2. Nocturne
  3. Elegy
  4. Dirge
  5. Hymn
  6. Sonnet
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op.35
  1. O my blacke Soule
  2. Batter my heart
  3. O might those sighes and teares
  4. Oh, to vex me
  5. What if this present
  6. Since she whom I loved
  7. At the round earth's imagined corners
  8. Thou hast made me
  9. Death, be not proud
Canticle I Op.40 My Beloved is Mine
Canticle II Op.51 Abraham and Isaac
Winter Words Op.52
  1. At day-close in November
  2. Midnight on the Great Western
  3. Wagtail and Baby
  4. The little old table
  5. The choirmaster's burial
  6. Proud songsters
  7. At the railway station, Upway
  8. Before life and after
Canticle III Op.55 Still falls the rain - The raids, 1940, Night and Dawn
Songs from the Chinese 2 Op.58
  1. The Big Chariot
  2. The Old Lute
  3. The Autumn Wind
  4. The Herd-Boy
  5. Depression
  6. Dance Song
Op.60 Nocturne 1
Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Op.61
  1. Menschenbeifall
  2. Die Heimat
  3. Sokrates und Alcibiades
  4. Die Jugend
  5. Hälfte des Lebens
  6. Die Linien des Lebens
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Op.74 Proverb I - London
Proverb II - The chimney-sweeper
Proverb III - A Poison Tree
Proverb IV - The Tyger
Proverb V - The Fly
Proverb VI - Ah, Sunflower !
Proverb VII - Every Night and Every Morn
Who Are These Children ? Op.84
  1. A Riddle (The Earth)
  2. A Laddie's Sang
  3. Nightmare
  4. Black Day
  5. Bed-time
  6. Slaughter
  7. A Riddle (The child you were)
  8. The Larky Lad
  9. Who are these children ?
  10. Supper
  11. The Children
  12. The Auld Aik
Canticle IV Op.86 Journey of the Magi
Canticle V 3 Op.89 The Death of Saint Narcissus
A Birthday Hansel 3 Op.92
  1. Birthday song
  2. My Early Walk
  3. Wee Willie Gray
  4. My Hoggie
  5. Afton Water
  6. The Winter
  7. Leezie Lindsay
Op.93 Phaedra 1
Two Ballads
  1. Mother Comfort
  2. Underneath the abject willow

Beware !

Four Burns Songs
  1. Afton Water
  2. Wee Willie Gray
  3. The Winter
  4. My Hoggie
Four Cabaret Songs
  1. Tell me the truth about love
  2. Funeral Blues
  3. Johnny
  4. Calypso

Fish in the unruffled lakes
If Thou wilt ease
Night covers up the rigid land
Not even summer yet

Quatre chansons françaises 1
  1. Nuits de Juin
  2. Sagesse
  3. L'enfance
  4. Chant d'automne

Sleep, my darling, sleep
The Birds
The Red Cockatoo
The sun shines down on the ships at sea

Tit for Tat
  1. A Song of Enchantment
  2. Autumn
  3. Silver
  4. Vigil
  5. Tit for Tat

To lie flat on the back
Um Mitternacht
When you're feeling like expressing your affection
Wild with passion

Folksongs

Volume 1
  • The Salley Gardens
  • Little Sir William
  • The Bonny Earl o' Moray
  • O can ye sew cushions ?
  • The trees grow so high
  • The ash grove
  • Oliver Cromwell
Volume 2
  • La noël passée
  • Voici le printemps
  • Fileuse
  • Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
  • La belle est au jardin d'amour
  • Il est quelqu'un sur terre
  • Eho ! Eho ! Quand j'étais chez mon père
Volume 3
  • The plough Boy
  • There's none to soothe
  • Sweet Polly Oliver
  • The miller of Dee
  • The foggy foggy dew
  • O Waly, Waly
  • Come you not from Newcastle ?
Volume 4
  • Avenging and bright
  • Sail on, sail on
  • How sweet the answer
  • The minstrel boy
  • At the mid hour of night
  • Rich and rare
  • Dear harp of my country
  • Oft in the stilly night
  • The last rose of summer
  • O the sight entrancing
Volume 5
  • The brisk young widow
  • Sally in our alley
  • The Lincolnshire poacher
  • Early one morning
  • Ca' the yowes
Volume 6
  • I will give my love an apple
  • Sailor-boy
  • Master Kilby
  • The soldier and the sailor
  • Bonny at morn
  • The shooting of his dear
Eight Folk Song Arrangements
  1. Lord, I married me a wife
  2. She's like the swallow
  3. Lemady
  4. Bonny at morn
  5. I was lonely and forlorn
  6. David of the White Rock
  7. The false knight
  8. Bird scarer's song

Arrangements

J.S. Bach Five Spiritual Songs
  1. Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke
  2. Komm, Seelen, dieser Tag
  3. Liebster Herr Jesu
  4. Komm, süsser Tod
  5. Bist du bei mir
Purcell Five Songs
  1. I attempt from love's sickness to fly
  2. I take no pleasure
  3. Hark the ech'ing air !
  4. Take not a woman's anger ill
  5. How blest are Shepherds

Six Songs

  1. Mad Bess
  2. If music be the food of love
  3. There's not a swain of the plain
  4. Not all my torments
  5. Man is for the woman made
  6. Sweeter than roses

Seven Songs

  1. Fairest isle
  2. If music be the food of love
  3. Turn then thine eyes
  4. Music for a while
  5. Pious Celinda
  6. I'll sail upon the dog-star
  7. On the brow of Richmond Hill

Six Duets

  1. Sound the trumpet
  2. I spy Celia
  3. Lost my quiet
  4. What can we poor females do ?
  5. No, no, resistance is but vain
  6. Shepherd, leave decoying

Suite of Songs 1

  • Let sullen discord smile
  • Why should men quarrel ?
  • So when the glittering Queen of the Night
  • Thou tun'st this world
  • 'Tis holiday - sound fame thy brazen trumpet

Three Songs 1

  1. Hark the ech'ing air !
  2. Not all my torments
  3. Take not a woman's anger ill

Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia
Saul and the Witch at Endor
Three Divine Hymns
Schubert Ach, neige, du Schmerzenreiche, D.564
Die Forelle, D.550 1
Schumann Frühlingsnacht 1
  1. with orchestra
  2. with guitar
  3. with harp