Collected songs : 60 songs /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (Composer)
Other Authors: Mayer, Elizabeth (Translator), Pears, Peter, 1910-1986 (Translator), Waley, Arthur (Translator), Walters, Richard (Editor, arranger of music.)
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:English
German
Italian
Published: [London] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2013]
Edition:Medium/low voice.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical notes on the songs
  • The birds / Hilaire Belloc
  • A charm of lullabies, opus 41. A cradle song / William Blake ; The highland balou / Robert Burns ; Sephestia's lullaby / Robert Greene ; A charm / Thomas Randolph ; The nurse's song / John Philip
  • Three songs from This way to the tomb. Evening ; Morning ; Night / Ronald Duncan
  • Fish in the unruffled lakes. 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 / W.H. Auden
  • The holy sonnets of John Donne, opus 35. Oh, my blacke soule! ; Batter my heart ; O 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 / John Donne
  • On this island, opus 11. Let the florid music praise! ; Now the leaves are falling fast ; Seascape ; Nocturne ; As it is, plenty / W.H. Auden
  • Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, opus 61. Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens / Friedrich Hölderlin ; English translation by Elizabeth Mayer and Peter Pears
  • Seven sonnets of Michaelangelo, opus 22. Sonetto XVI: Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro ; Sonetto XXXI: A che più debb 'io mai l'intensa voglia ; Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume ; Sonetto LV: Tu sa' chi 'io so, signior mie, che tu sai ; Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume ; Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pietà superna ; Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede / Michaelangelo
  • Songs from the Chinese, opus 58. The big chariot ; The old lute ; The Autumn wind ; The herd-boy ; Depression ; Dance song / translated by Arthur Waley ; transcribed for piano by Richard Walters
  • Winter words, opus 52. 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 / Thomas Hardy
  • Cut from Winter words. If it's ever spring again ; The children and Sir Nameless / Thomas Hardy
  • Two Ballads (duet). Mother comfort / Montagu Slater ; Underneath the abject willow / W.H. Auden.