BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard
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Coming this Fall<br />
<strong>BENJAMIN</strong> <strong>BRITTEN</strong>:<br />
COLLECTED SONGS<br />
edited by Richard Walters<br />
Boosey & Hawkes<br />
Distributed by <strong>Hal</strong> <strong>Leonard</strong> Corporation<br />
Release Date: October, 2012<br />
48019418 High Voice $29.99<br />
48019419 Medium/Low Voice $29.99<br />
63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano<br />
published by Boosey & Hawkes. The content is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice volumes,<br />
with newly published transpositions as necessary.<br />
CONTENTS<br />
The Birds (original key: Medium/Low; transposed for the High Voice edition)<br />
A CHARM OF LULLABIES (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition)<br />
A Cradle Song ● The Highland Balou ● Sephestia’s Lullaby ● A Charm ● The Nurse’s Song<br />
EVENING, MORNING, NIGHT (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition)<br />
three songs from This Way to the Tomb: Evening: The red fox, the sun ● Morning ● Night<br />
FISH IN THE UNRUFFLED LAKES (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
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? ●<br />
Underneath the abject willow<br />
THE HOLY SONNETS OF JOHN DONNE (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
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<br />
loved ● At the round earth’s imagined corners ● Thou hast made me ● Death, be not proud<br />
ON THIS ISLAND (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
Let the florid music praise! ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ● Nocturne ● As it is, plenty<br />
SECHS HÖLDERLIN-FRAGMENTE (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens<br />
SEVEN SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ● Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV<br />
SONGS FROM THE CHINESE,(originally for High Voice and Guitar; transcribed for High Voice and Piano for this edition;<br />
transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
The Big Chariot ● The Old Lute ● The Autumn Wind ● The Herd-Boy ● Depression ● Dance Song<br />
THREE SONGS FROM ‘THE HEART OF THE MATTER’ (originally for Tenor, Horn and Piano; transposed for the<br />
Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
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<br />
WINTER WORDS (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition)<br />
At Day-close in November ● Midnight on the Great Western ● Wagtail and Baby ● The Little Old Table ● The Choirmaster’s Burial<br />
● Proud Songsters ● At the Railway Station, Upway ● Before Life and After ● Songs cut from the cycle: If it’s ever spring again ●<br />
The Children and Sir Nameless<br />
TWO BALLADS (duets for High Voice and Medium/Low Voice)<br />
Mother Comfort ● Underneath the abject willow
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