BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Centenary Celebration
(One Year Early for Plan Ahead Programming)
Beverly O’Regan Thiele, soprano
Christine O’Meally, mezzo-soprano
Steven Stolen, tenor
Kurt Ollmann, baritone
Richard Walters, pianist and presenter
NATS National Conference
Orlando
Sunday, July 1, 2012
1:00 PM
Presented by
Boosey & Hawkes publications are exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard.

Benjamin Britten
1913-1976

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Centenary Celebration
selections to be performed,
with readings from Britten’s writings and media clips
Sonnet XVI from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
To lie flat on the back from Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
Steven Stolen
Now the leaves are falling fast from On This Island
Beverly O’Regan Thiele
Mother Comfort
Beverly O’Regan Thiele, Christine O’Meally
Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), opening section only
Christine O’Meally, Steven Stolen
Morning from Evening, Morning, Night
At Day-Close in November from Winter Words
The Choirmaster’s Burial from Winter Words
Kurt Ollmann
Evening Hymn, Henry Purcell, realization by Britten
Steven Stolen
Folksong Arrangements:
The Last Rose of Summer
Come you not from Newcastle?
Beverly O’Regan Thiele
The Salley Gardens
The Brisk Young Widow
Kurt Ollmann
Richard Walters, pianist and presenter

Sonnet XVI from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
translation of the Italian text
Just as there is a high, a low, and a middle style in pen
and ink, and as within the marble are images rich and poor,
according as our fancy knows how to draw them forth:
so within your heart, dear love, there are perhaps, as well as
pride, some humble feelings: but I draw thence only what is my
desert and like to what I show outside on my face.
Whoever sows sighs, tears and lamentations (Heaven’s moisture
on earth, simple and pure, adapts itself differently to different
seeds) reaps and gathers grief and sadness:
whoever looks on high beauty with so great a grief reaps
doubtful hopes and sure and bitter pain.
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Known for her consummate acting and clear, silver-toned, warm voice, Iowa native BEVERLY O’REGAN THIELE is
among the best in her field for her interpretation of contemporary opera and equally at home in the classics, concert and
recital work. Her successes include Magda Sorel in The Consul, which she sang with Washington National Opera as well
as with Berkshire Opera, and recorded the role on the Newport Classics Label. She returned to WNO to sing Blanche in
Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Ms. O'Regan Thiele created leading soprano roles in two world premieres for
Michael Nyman: Man and Boy Dada and Love Counts, both with the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, Germany. Also
in Karlsruhe, she sang Chrysothemis in Elektra, Giulietta in Les contes d’Hoffmann and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, a
role she also sang with Lyric Opera of Chicago and New York City Opera. She has sung Miss Jessel in The Turn of the
Screw with the Broomhill Opera Festival in the UK, and the title role in the East Coast premiere of Tobias Picker's
Thérèse Raquin. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the title role in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah with Des
Moines Metro Opera, as well as Arkadina in the professional premiere of Thomas Pasatierie's latest rendition of The
Seagull with New York’s Dicapo Opera, a role she repeated in Szeged, Hungary. Other roles: Donna Elvira with
Glimmerglass Opera, Mississippi Opera and Toledo Opera; Fiordiligi with Lake George Opera, Opera Omaha and Fort
Worth Opera; Musetta with New York City Opera and Orlando Opera. Ms. O'Regan Thiele has appeared with the
Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Washington National Opera in Die Walkure, Elektra, Die Frau ohne
Schatten, War and Peace, Moses und Aaron, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. She ventured into the musical theatre genre as
Rosabella in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella with Utah Opera Festival. Her inspirational CD, Live in the Light,was
released in 2010. She may be heard on the Hal Leonard recordings The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Soprano,
Benjamin Britten: 12 Selected Folksong Arrangements, and Folksongs in Recital.
Mezzo-soprano CHRISTINE O’MEALLY has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of
Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called her voice “an amazing
instrument.” The Washington Post said, “her voice is lovely and her stage presence is natural and full of vitality.” Her
performances include appearances with Racine Symphony, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee, Washington Bach Consort,
Opera Theater of Northern Virginia, Washington Savoyards, In Tandem Theatre, Windfall Theater, The Young Victorian
Theater of Baltimore, and Skylight Opera Theatre. She created the role of The Woman in Red in Dominick Argento’s A
Dream of Valentino in its world premiere with the Washington Opera. Her concert appearances include performances with
the Racine Symphony as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem, Wheaton Symphony, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee Choral Artists, Washington Bach Consort, Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra. On recordings, Ms. O’Meally may be heard on Mark Brymer’s Christmas Suite with Milwaukee Children's
Choir under the direction of Emily Crocker, Flight Box with Present Music, and in “Cinq Poèmes de Tristan Tzara” with
pianist Milton Peckarsky on the CD La Clé de L’Horizon. A NATS member since 1997 and a past participant in the
NATS intern program, she is on the faculties of Cardinal Stritch University and at Carroll University, and maintains a
private voice studio in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Ms. O’Meally received an M.M. in vocal performance from the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore.

American baritone KURT OLLMANN first came to prominence singing Riff on the Deutsche Grammophon recording of
West Side Story, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Ollmann’s operatic career has since taken him to La Scala, the
Vienna State Opera, the Rome Opera, Brussels’ La Monnaie, the Wexford Festival, as well as the Seattle, Los Angeles,
Washington, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass and New York City opera companies. He has sung with the London Symphony
Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Paris, Rome’s Accademia de Santa Cecilia, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, and the orchestras of Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, among many others. A noted recitalist, Mr. Ollmann
studied song literature with Gérard Souzay and Pierre Bernac, and has made a specialty of French and American song
literature. He has premiered works by Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem, Michael Torke, Richard Danielpour and Peter
Lieberson, and has appeared regularly with the New York Festival of Song. His recordings include songs of Leguerney
with pianist Mary Dibbern, songs of Roussel with pianist Dalton Baldwin, Schumann songs with pianist Michael Barrett,
and Rorem songs with the composer. Other recordings include Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Placido Domingo,
Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! with Dawn Upshaw, Bernstein’s Candide and West Side Story, Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole under
André Previn, and Pelléas et Melisande. Mr. Ollmann has recorded for Hal Leonard Corporation since 2004, and can be
heard on several companion CDs with music books, including Samuel Barber: 10 Selected Songs, Britten: 12 Selected
Folksong Arrangements, Folksongs in Recital, The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Baritone/Bass, and others. Mr.
Ollmann is on the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Tenor STEVEN STOLEN enjoys an active and eclectic life as a singing artist, educator, arts administrator and
community leader. His singing experiences have included solo appearances with many of the country’s finest symphony
orchestras including the symphonies of San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis, San Antonio, the St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik of Toronto and many others. Mr. Stolen has appeared
many times with the Indianapolis Symphony. He has sung at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra
and made his New York debut as Jonathan in Handel’s Saul at the BAM Festival. He is the founder and Resident Artist of
Meridian Song Project in Indianapolis, the only vocal chamber music series of its kind in the midwest. Mr. Stolen enjoyed
a long career in academia, serving on the faculties at Central Michigan University, Roanoke College, his alma mater,
Simpson College, Bowling Green State University, and nearly fifteen years at Butler University, where he also served as
head of the music department in the Jordan College of Fine Arts and as Executive Director of Major Gifts and Campaign
Programs with Butler’s office of University Advancement. After a successful tenure as Executive Director of the
Indianapolis Children’s Choir, Mr. Stolen was named Managing Director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, where he
serves as co-CEO, managing and directing the administrative, financial and overall business affairs of Indiana’s largest
professional theatre company. He is co-editor of two editions published by Hal Leonard, English Songs: Renaissance to
Baroque, and Schubert: 100 Songs. He has been a recording artist for Hal Leonard since 1991, heard on dozens of
companion CDs to music publications, including Benjamin Britten: 12 Selected Folksong Arrangements, Samuel Barber:
10 Selected Songs, Folksongs in Recital, 14 Sacred Solos, and The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Tenor.
RICHARD WALTERS is Vice President of Classical and Vocal Publications at Hal Leonard Corporation, and directs
publishing and marketing of G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard publications for voice, classical piano,
classical solo instrumental and chamber music. He also directs distribution of Schott, Henle and other European
publishers, and is closely involved in managing Hal Leonard’s classical European ventures, which includes directing the
publishing for Ricordi, Durand and Salabert. Richard has edited more than 60 volumes in The Vocal Library series,
including The Oratorio Anthology, Standard Vocal Literature, and collections of songs by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss,
Fauré and Quilter. He is editor of the four-volume G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology, Samuel Barber: 65 Songs,
Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements, and the 30-volume series The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology,
among hundreds of publications. He has produced and performed as a pianist on over 100 recordings, often working with
singers. In addition to his music publishing career, Richard is a composer who writes primarily for the voice. His
distinctive concert arrangements are published in The Sacred Collection, American Folksongs, Folksongs in Recital, The
Christmas Collection, and other collections. He was educated with a degree in piano from Simpson College, where he was
a coaching student of Robert Larsen, and studied composition with Sven Lekberg. His graduate study in composition at
the University of Minnesota was with Dominick Argento.

Coming this Fall
BENJAMIN BRITTEN:
COLLECTED SONGS
edited by Richard Walters
Boosey & Hawkes
Distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date: October, 2012
48019418 High Voice $29.99
48019419 Medium/Low Voice $29.99
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 (original key: Medium/Low; transposed for the High Voice edition)
A CHARM OF LULLABIES (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition)
A Cradle Song ● The Highland Balou ● Sephestia’s Lullaby ● A Charm ● The Nurse’s Song
EVENING, MORNING, NIGHT (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition)
three songs from This Way to the Tomb: Evening: The red fox, the sun ● Morning ● Night
FISH IN THE UNRUFFLED LAKES (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
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 (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
Oh my blacke Soule!Batter my heart ● Oh might those sighes and teares ● Oh, to vex me ● What if this present ● Since she whom I
loved ● At the round earth’s imagined corners ● Thou hast made me ● Death, be not proud
ON THIS ISLAND (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
Let the florid music praise! ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ● Nocturne ● As it is, plenty
SECHS HÖLDERLIN-FRAGMENTE (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens
SEVEN SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ● Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV
SONGS FROM THE CHINESE,(originally for High Voice and Guitar; transcribed for High Voice and Piano for this edition;
transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
The Big Chariot ● The Old Lute ● The Autumn Wind ● The Herd-Boy ● Depression ● Dance Song
THREE SONGS FROM ‘THE HEART OF THE MATTER’ (originally for Tenor, Horn and Piano; transposed for the
Medium/Low Voice edition)
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 (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)
At Day-close in November ● Midnight on the Great Western ● Wagtail and Baby ● The Little Old Table ● The Choirmaster’s Burial
● Proud Songsters ● At the Railway Station, Upway ● Before Life and After ● Songs cut from the cycle: If it’s ever spring again ●
The Children and Sir Nameless
TWO BALLADS (duets for High Voice and Medium/Low Voice)
Mother Comfort ● Underneath the abject willow

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
PUBLICATIONS FOR VOICE
Published by Boosey & Hawkes, Distributed by Hal Leonard
(Note: additional Britten works are published by Faber Music, distributed in North America by Alfred)
SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
Forthcoming, Fall 2012 release:
Collected Songs
edited by Richard Walters
63 songs
48019418 High Voice $29.99
48019419 Medium/Low Voice $29.99
release date is October, 2012
The Birds
composed 1934; text by Hilaire Belloc
48008882 Medium Voice and Piano $9.95
Canticle I (My Beloved Is Mine), Op. 40
composed 1947; text by Francis Quarles
48008891 High Voice and Piano $27.95
A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41
5 songs; composed 1947; texts by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, John Philip, Thomas Randolph; Contents: A Cradle
Song ● The Highland Balou ● Sephestia’s Lullaby ● A Charm ● The Nurse’s Song
48008897 Mezzo-Soprano and Piano $25.25
Evening, Morning, Night
3 songs from This Way to the Tomb (incidental music to the play Masque and Anti-Masque);
composed 1945 (published posthumously)
48011080 Medium Voice and Harp (or Piano) $18.95
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
6 songs; composed 1937-1941 (published posthumously); texts by W.H. Auden; Contents: 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
48011682 High Voice and Piano $24.95
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35
9 songs; composed 1945; texts by John Donne; Contents: Oh my black Soule! ● Batter my heart ● Oh might those sighes and teares ●
Oh, to vex me ● What if this present ● Since she whom I loved ● At the round earth’s imagined corners ● Thou hast made me ●
Death, be not proud
48008926 High Voice and Piano (imported edition) $34.95
Les Illuminations, Op. 18
9 songs; composed 1939; originally for high voice and string orchestra; texts (in French) by Arthur Rimbaud; Contents: Fanfare ●
Villes ● Phrase; Antique ● Royauté ● Marine ● Interlude ● Being Beauteous ● Parade ● Départ
48008932 Soprano or Tenor and Piano Reduction $32.95

Nocturne, Op. 60
8 songs; composed 1958; originally for tenor, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra; texts by Shelley, Tennyson, Coleridge,
Middleton, Wordsworth, Owen, Keats, Shakespeare
48008954 Tenor and Piano Reduction $31.95
On This Island, Op. 11
5 songs; composed 1937; texts by W.H. Auden; Contents: Let the florid music praise ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ●
Nocturne ● As it is, plenty
48008964 High Voice and Piano $27.25
Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8
3 songs plus prologue and epilogue; composed 1936; originally a symphonic cycle for high voice and orchestra; texts by W.H. Auden,
Thomas Ravenscroft, and anonymous; Contents: Prologue ● Rats away! ● Messalina ● Dance of Death ● Epilogue and Funeral
March
48008966 High Voice and Piano Reduction $31.00
Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente, Op. 61
6 songs; composed 1958; texts (in German) by Friedrich Hölderlin; Contents: Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und
Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens
48008995 High Voice and Piano $32.95
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22
7 songs; composed 1940; texts (in Italian) by Michelangeo Buonarroti; Contents: Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ●
Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXVIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV
48008998 Tenor and Piano $27.95
Winter Words, Op. 52
8 songs; composed 1953; texts by Thomas Hardy (two additional songs were composed and added as an appendix posthumously);
Contents: At Day-close in November ● Midnight on the Great Western ● Wagtail and Baby ● The Little Old Table ● The
Choirmaster’s Burial ● Proud Songsters ● At the Railway Station, Upway ● Before Life and After; two cut songs from the cycle:
If’it’s ever spring again ● The Children and Sir Nameless
48009033 High Voice and Piano $29.95
REALIZATIONS FOR SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
Selections from The Beggar’s Opera
Ballad opera by John Gay; realization by Britten 1947-48
Contents: ’Tis woman that seduces all mankind (tenor) ● If love the virgin’s heart invade (mezzo-soprano) ● Virgins are like the fair
flower (mezzo-soprano) ● I, like a ship in storms, was tossed (mezzo-soprano) ● A fox may steal your hens, Sir (duet, mezzosoprano/bass)
● The miser thus a shilling sees (duet, mezzo-soprano/tenor) ● If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (tenor) ●
Man may escape from rope and gun (tenor) ● Thus when a good housewife sees a rat/How cruel are the traytors (soprano) ● Why how
now, Madam Flirt! (duet, soprano/mezzo-soprano) ● When young at the bar/Ungrateful Macheath! (soprano) ● Thus gamesters united
in friendship (baritone) ● I’m like a skiff on the ocean tossed (soprano) ● O cruel, cruel case! (tenor)
48019420 13 Solo Airs for Various Voice Types and 3 Duets $14.95
The Purcell Collection
realizations by Britten, composed over many years, including selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen; with extensive
introductory notes; for complete contents search at www.halleonard.com
48019095 High Voice, 50 selections $27.95
48019096 Medium/Low Voice, 45 selections $27.95
Realizations for Solo Voice and Piano, continued
Purcell: 12 Selected Songs
realizations by Britten; Contents: Fairest Isle ● Hark the ech’ing air ● How blest are shepherds ● I attempt from love’s sickness to fly
● I’ll sail upon the Dog-star ● If music be the food of love ● Man is for the woman made ● Music for a while ● On the brow of
Richmond Hill ● There’s not a swain of the plain ● Turn then thine eyes ● We sing to him.
48019965 High Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99
48019966 Medium/Low Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99

FOLKSONG ARRANGEMENTS: SOLO VOICE AND PIANO
Complete Folksong Arrangements
61 songs, with extensive introductory notes; includes Volumes 1-6, Eight Folksong Arrangements (1976), and Tom Bowling and
Other Song Arrangements (note: songs originally composed for harp or guitar accompaniment are transcribed for piano in this
collection)
48018781 High Voice $29.99
48018782 Medium/Low Voice $29.99
12 Selected Folksong Arrangements
Contents: The Ash Grove ● At the mid hour of night ● The Brisk Young Widow ● Come you not from Newcastle? ● Early one
morning ● Greensleeves ● I will give my love an apple ● O Waly, Waly ● Sail on, sail on ● The Salley Gardens ● Sweet Polly Oliver
● There’s none to soothe
48019746 High Voice, with CD of performances and accompaniments $17.95
48019747 Medium/Low Voice, with CD of performances and accompaniments $17.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 1: British Isles
7 songs; arrangements composed 1941-42; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: The Salley Gardens ● Little Sir William ●
The Bonny Earl o’ Moray ● O can ye sew cushions? ● The trees they grow so high ● The Ash Grove ● Oliver Cromwell
48008913 High Voice $23.95
48008912 Medium Voice $23.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 2: France
8 songs; arrangements composed 1942; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: La Noël passée ● Voice 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
48008915 High Voice $23.95
48008914 Medium Voice $23.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 3: British Isles
7 songs; arrangements composed 1945-46; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: 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?
48008917 High Voice $23.95
48008916 Medium Voice $23.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 4: Moore’s Irish Melodies
10 songs; arrangements composed 1957; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: 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 ●
48008918 High Voice $23.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 5: British Isles
5 songs; arrangements composed 1951-59; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: The Brisk Young Widow ● Sally in our
Alley ● The Lincolnshire Poacher ● Early one morning ● Ca’ the yowes
48008919 Medium Voice $23.95
Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements
10 songs; arrangements composed at various times, published posthumously; Contents: Tom Bowling ● The Crocodile ● Dink’s Song
● Greensleeves ● The Holly and the Ivy ● I wonder as I wander ● Pray goody ● The Deaf Woman’s Courtship ● Soldier, won’t you
marry me? ● The Stream in the Valley (with cello)
48011901 Medium Voice and Piano (with Cello on one song) $32.95
TWO VOICES AND PIANO
Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), Op. 51
composed 1952; text from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham
48008892 Alto, Tenor and Piano $27.25

Two Ballads
composed 1936; texts by Montagu Slater, W.H. Auden
Mother Comfort, Underneath the abject willow
48012255 $29.95
SOLO VOICE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS
Canticle III (Still falls the rain), Op. 55
composed 1954; text by Edith Sitwell
48008893 Tenor, Horn, Piano $29.95
Evening, Morning, Night
from This Way to the Tomb (incidental music to the play Masque and Anti-Masque)
composed 1944-45; texts by Ronald Duncan
48011080 Medium Voice and Harp (or Piano) $18.95
Folksong Arrangements Volume 6: England
6 songs; arrangements composed 1956-58; Contents: I will give my love an apple ● Sailor-boy ● Master Kilby ● The Solder and the
Sailor ● Bonny at Morn ● The Shooting of His Dear (this set was transcribed for voice and piano in the publication Complete
Folksong Arrangements)
48008920 High Voice and Guitar $23.95
Now sleeps the crimson petal
composed 1943 (originally for the Serenade, but omitted from the set; published posthumously); text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
48011025 Tenor, Horn, Piano Reduction $20.95
Serenade, Op. 31
6 songs, with horn prologue and epilogue; composed 1943; originally for tenor, horn and strings; texts by Charles Cotton; Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Anonymous; Contents: Pastoral ● Nocturne ● Elegy ● Dirge ● Hymn ●
Sonnet
48008997 Tenor, Horn, Piano Reduction $35.50
Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58
6 songs; composed 1957; texts by Chinese poets, translated by Arthur Waley; Contents: The Big Chariot ● The Old Lute ● The
Autumn Wind ● The Herd-Boy ● Depression ● Dance Song
48009005 High Voice and Guitar $29.95
Three Songs from the Heart of the Matter
composed 1956 (published posthumously); texts by Edith Sitwell; Contents: Prologue, Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire ● We
are the darkness in the heat of the day ● Epilogue, So, out of the dark
48011559 Tenor, Horn, Piano $24.95
VOICE WITH ORCHESTRA
Full Scores or Study Scores
14 Folksongs (orchestrated, High Voice and Orchestra)
48011800 Study Score $48.95
Nocturne
48008953 Study Score $27.95
Our Hunting Fathers
48008965 Study Score $30.95
48001182 Full Score $60.00
Works for Voice and Chamber Orchestra
includes Les Illuminations, Nocturne, Serenade, Now sleeps the crimson petal
48011956 Study Score $48.95

OPERA
Opera Vocal Scores
(all are imported editions)
48008871 Albert Herring $133.95
48009753 The Beggar’s Opera (Gay, realization) $77.95
48008880 Billy Budd $133.95
48009246 Dido and Aeneas (Purcell, realization) $42.95
48008921 Gloriana $125.95
48008969 Peter Grimes $133.95
48008939 The Little Sweep (Let’s Make an Opera) $53.95
48008945 A Midsummer Night’s Dream $135.00
48008957 Noye’s Fludde $49.95
48008982 The Rape of Lucretia $135.95
48009023 The Turn of the Screw $135.00
Collected Opera Arias
Operatic Arias, Soprano Book 1
9 arias; Contents: Let her among you without fault (Peter Grimes) ● Embroidery Aria (Peter Grimes) ● Glitter of waves and glitter of
sunlight (Peter Grimes) ● Now then! Notebook, Florence (Albert Herring) ● Is this all you can bring (Albert Herring) ● I’m full of
happiness (Albert Herring) ● Soliloquy and Prayer “On rivalries, ’tis safe for kings” (Gloriana) ● She sleeps as a rose (The Rape of
Lucretia) ● Time treads upon the hands of women (The Rape of Lucretia)
48008484 $16.99
Operatic Arias, Soprano Book 2
9 arias; Contents: Run, poor sweep boy! (The Little Sweep) ● Soon the coach will cary you away (The Little Sweep) ● The Journey –
Nearly There (The Turn of the Screw) ● The Tower – How beautiful it is (The Turn of the Screw) ● Lost in my labyrinth (The Turn of
the Screw) ● Go to sleep, my dolly dear (The Turn of the Screw) ● Come, now a roundel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Be kind
and courteous (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Injurious Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
48008485 $16.99
Operatic Arias, Mezzo-Soprano
6 arias; Contents: Doctor Jessop’s midwife (Albert Herring) ● What would Missus Herring say? (Albert Herring) ● Ah!
Blackguards! (The Little Sweep) ● Give him this orchid (The Rape of Lucretia) ● Quint, Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) ● I
know a bank where the wild thyme blows (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
48008486 $15.50
Operatic Arias, Tenor Book 1
8 arias; Contents: Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter Grimes) ● Go there! (Peter Grimes) ● Here the thirsty ev’ning has drunk
the wine of light (The Rape of Lucretia) ● Tarquinius does not dare (The Rape of Lucretia) ● I am an old man (Billy Budd) ● God o’
mercy (Billy Budd) ● I accept their verdict (Billy Budd) ● We committed his body to the deep (Billy Budd)
48008503 $14.95
Operatic Arias, Tenor Book 2
9 arias; Contents: As representing our local council (Albert Herring) ● Albert the Good! (Albert Herring) ● O go, go! Go away!
(Albert Herring) ● I can’t remember everything (Albert Herring) ● Second Lute Song “Happy Were He” (Gloriana) ● Scena: O cruel
case! (The Beggar’s Opera) ● Miles! (The Turn of the Screw) ● Asleep, my love? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
48008504 $16.99
Operatic Arias, Baritone
8 arias; Contents: Virtue, says holy writ (Albert Herring) ● Tickling a trout (Albert Herring) ● Churchyard’s agog with a crowd of
folks (Albert Herring) ● Caution is better, sweet Highness (Gloriana) ● Within this frail crucible of light (The Rape of Lucretia) ●
Jemmy legs likes me (Billy Budd) ● Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray! (Billy Budd) ● I had to strike down that
Jemmy legs (Billy Budd)
48008505 $15.95

Collected Opera Arias, continued
Operatic Arias, Baritone/Bass
6 arias; Raleigh’s Song “As your Highness commands” (Gloriana) ● How bitter of you (The Rape of Lucretia) ● O beauty, O
handsomeness, goodness (Billy Budd) ● Good wife, let be all this beare (Noye’s Fludde) ● Bottom’s Dream: When my cue comes, call
me (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
48008511 $14.95
available separately
Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes
48005695 Soprano $5.75
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Britten Vocal Publications Published Faber Music
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Beware! (3 Early Songs)
A Birthday Hansel
Cradle Song
Cabaret Songs
Canticle IV
Canticle V
Five Songs from Harmonia Sacra (realizations)
Eight Folksong Arrangements
Purcell: A Miscellany of Songs (realizations)
Quatre chansons françaises
Phaedra
The Poet’s Echo
The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Tit for Tat (5 Settings from Boyhood)
Who are these children?
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