Benjamin Britten - Collected Songs

63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano published by Boosey & Hawkes. The content is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice volumes, with newly published transpositions as necessary. Contents: The Birds · A Charm of Lullabies (5 songs) · Evening, Morning, Night · Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (6 songs) · The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (8 songs) · On This Island (5 songs) · Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente (6 songs) · Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) · Songs from the Chinese (6 songs, transcribed for voice and piano) · Three Songs from The Heart of the Matter (with horn) · Winter Words (8 songs plus 2 songs cut from the cycle) · Two Ballads (duets).

Table of Contents:

A Charm

A Cradle Song

As Its Is, Plenty

At Day-Close in November

At the Railway Station, Upway

At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners

Batter My Heart

Before Life and After

Dance Song

Death, Be Not Proud

Depression

Die Heimat

Die Jugend

Die Linien des Lebens

Epilogue

Evening

Fish in the Unruffled Lakes

Halfte des Lebens

If It's Ever Spring Again

Let the Florid Music Praise!

Menschenbeifall

Midnight At The Great Western

Morning

Mother Comfort

Night

Night Covers Up the Rigid Land

Nocturne

Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast

O Might Those Sighes and Teares

Oh My Blacke Soule!

Oh, to Vex Me

Prologue

Proud Songsters

Seascape

Sephestia's Lullaby

Since She Whom I Loved

Sokrates und Alcibiades

Sonetto IV

Sonetto XVI

Sonetto XXIV

Sonetto XXX

Sonetto XXXI

Sonetto XXXII

Sonetto XXXVIII

Song

The Autumn Wind

The Big Chariot

The Birds

The Children And Sir Nameless

The Choirmaster's Burial

The Herd-Boy

The Highland Balou

The Little Old Table

The Nurse's Song

The Old Lute

The Sun Shines Down

Thou Hast Made Me

To Lie Flat On the Back

Underneath The Abject Willow (solo version)

Underneath the Abject Willow

Wagtail and Baby

What If This Present

What's In Your Mind?

Catalog:	HL48019418
Publisher:	HalLeonard
Composer:	Benjamin Britten