Britten Collected Songs 63 Songs High voice

 Britten Collected Songs 63 Songs High voice

This beautiful new edition brings together a selection of Britten's vocal music into one new, clean edition. This volume contains extensive editorial source notes and translations of songs which are not originally in English.

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 Britten Collected Songs 63 Songs Medium/Low voice

The Birds (Original Key)

A Charm of Lullabies op. 41 (in transposition)

• Cradle Song
• The Highland Balou
• Sephestia's Lullaby
• A Charm
• The Nurse's Song

Evening, Morning, Night - Three Songs from 'This Way to the Tomb' (Original Keys)

• Evening
• Morning
• Night

Fish in the unruffled lakes (original keys)

• To lie flat on the back
• Night covers up the rigid land
• The sun shines down
• Fish in the unruffled lakes
• What's in your mind?
• Underneath the abject willow

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35 (original keys)

1. IV: "Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned"
2. XIV: "Batter my heart, three person'd God"
3. III: "Oh might those sighes and teares return againe"
4. XIX: "Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one"
5. XIII: "What if this present were the world's last night?"
6. XVII: "Since she whom I lov'd hath pay'd her last debt"
7. VII: "At the round earth's imagined corners"
8. I: "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?"
9. X: "Death be not proud"

On This Island, op.11 (original keys)

• Let the florid music praise
• Now the leaves are falling fast
• Seascape
• Nocturne
• As it is, plenty

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, op 61 (original keys)

• Menschenbeifall
• Die Heimat
• Sokrates und Alcibiades
• Die Jugend
• Hälfte des Lebens
• Die Linien des Leben

Seven Sonnets of Michaelangelo, op. 22 (original keys)

• XVI: "Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro" ("Just as in pen and ink")
• XXXI: "A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia" ("To what purpose do I express my intense desire")
• XXX: "Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume" ("I see through your lovely eyes a sweet light")
• LV: "Tu sa, ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai" ("You know that I know, my lord, that you know")
• XXXVIII: "Rendete agli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume" ("Give back to my eyes, o fountains and rivers")
• XXXII: "S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna" ("If there is a chaste love, a heavenly pity")
• XXIV: "Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede" ("Noble spirit, in whom is reflected")

Songs from the Chinese, op 58 (transcribed for voice and piano - original keys)

• The Big Chariot
• The Old Lute
• The Autumn Wind
• The Herd-Boy
• Depression
• Dance Song

Three Songs from 'The Heart of the Matter' (with horn - original keys)

• Prologue - Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire
• Song - We are the darkness in the heat of the day
• Epilogue - So, out of the dark

Winter Words, op. 52 (original keys)

• At Day-Close in November
• Midnight on the Great Western (or, The Journeying Boy)
• Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
• The Little Old Table
• The Choirmaster's Burial (or, The Tenor Man's Story)
• Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
• At the Railway Station, Upway (or, The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
• Before Life and After

plus two additional songs originally cut from Winter Words

• If it's ever spring again
• The Children and Sir Nameless

Two Ballads - vocal duets (original keys)

• Mother Comfort
• Underneath the abject willow