Benjamin Britten – Collected Songs High Voice (63 Songs) Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover
Benjamin Britten – Collected Songs High Voice (63 Songs) Boosey & Hawkes Voice Softcover
- Boosey & Hawkes Voice
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Softcover
- Benjamin Britten
- Richard Walters
- 29.99 (US)
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).
Song List
- As Its Is, Plenty
- At Day-Close In November
- At The Railway Station, Upway
- At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners
- The Autumn Wind
- Batter My Heart
- Before Life And After
- The Big Chariot
- The Birds
- A Charm
- The Children And Sir Nameless
- The Choirmaster's Burial
- A Cradle Song
- 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
- The Herd-Boy
- The Highland Balou
- If It's Ever Spring Again
- Let The Florid Music Praise!
- The Little Old Table
- Menschenbeifall
- Midnight At The Great Western
- Morning
- Mother Comfort
- Night
- Night Covers Up The Rigid Land
- Nocturne
- Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast
- The Nurse's Song
- O Might Those Sighes And Teares
- Oh My Blacke Soule!
- Oh, To Vex Me
- The Old Lute
- Prologue
- Proud Songsters
- Seascape
- Sephestia's Lullaby
- Since She Whom I Loved
- Sokrates und Alcibiades
- Sonetto LV
- Sonetto XVI
- Sonetto XXIV
- Sonetto XXX
- Sonetto XXXI
- Sonetto XXXII
- Sonetto XXXVIII
- Song
- 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?
Instrumentation
- Vocal
Product Details
- #HL 48019418
- 9781423429753
- 884088135874
- M051933976
- 9.0"
- 12.0"
- 320 Pages
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