Britten: His Music

1

Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Prologue
Benjamin Britten, Dale Clevenger, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

53 bpm

F min

01:31

2

Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: I. Dialogo. Allegro (Ed. Rostropovich) - Live at Schloss Elmau, Krün / 2016
Benjamin Britten, Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky

128 bpm

C Maj

08:38

3

Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: II. Scherzo-pizzicato. Allegretto (Ed. Rostropovich) - Live at Schloss Elmau, Krün / 2016
Benjamin Britten, Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky

132 bpm

C Maj

02:39

4

Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: III. Elegia. Lento (Ed. Rostropovich) - Live at Schloss Elmau, Krün / 2016
Benjamin Britten, Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky

172 bpm

C Maj

06:19

5

Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: IV. Marcia. Energico (Ed. Rostropovich) - Live at Schloss Elmau, Krün / 2016
Benjamin Britten, Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky

138 bpm

D# Maj

02:13

6

Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65: V. Moto perpetuo. Presto (Ed. Rostropovich) - Live at Schloss Elmau, Krün / 2016
Benjamin Britten, Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky

78 bpm

F min

02:38

7

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam
Benjamin Britten, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman, Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden

77 bpm

B min

05:27

8

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Requiem aeternam: What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

90 bpm

D Maj

03:53

9

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Dies irae (I)
Benjamin Britten, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

75 bpm

C min

03:57

10

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
Benjamin Britten, Bo Skovhus, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner

131 bpm

D Maj

02:39

11

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Liber scriptus proferetur
Benjamin Britten, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

132 bpm

A Maj

02:52

12

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death
Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Bo Skovhus, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner

139 bpm

E min

01:44

13

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Recordare Jesu pie
Benjamin Britten, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

134 bpm

G Maj

04:34

14

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Be slowly lifted up
Benjamin Britten, Bo Skovhus, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner

114 bpm

A min

01:46

15

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Dies irae (II)
Benjamin Britten, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

73 bpm

A# Maj

01:23

16

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Lacrimosa dies illa
Benjamin Britten, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

130 bpm

C min

02:06

17

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies Irae: Move him into the sun
Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

171 bpm

D Maj

05:46

18

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
Benjamin Britten, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

141 bpm

D# Maj

03:51

19

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Offertorium: So Abraham rose, and clave the wood
Benjamin Britten, Bo Skovhus, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

48 bpm

G Maj

05:57

20

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus
Benjamin Britten, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

88 bpm

D Maj

06:33

21

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Sanctus: After the blast of lightning from the East
Benjamin Britten, Bo Skovhus, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner

89 bpm

C min

04:05

22

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Agnus Dei: One ever hangs where shelled roads part
Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

80 bpm

C Maj

03:37

23

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Libera me: Libera me, Domine
Benjamin Britten, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

95 bpm

G min

07:19

24

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Libera me: It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Bo Skovhus, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner

69 bpm

D# Maj

09:23

25

War Requiem, Op. 66 / Libera me: Let us sleep now...In paradisum
Benjamin Britten, Bo Skovhus, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Luba Orgonasova, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, John Eliot Gardiner, Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, The Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Howard Arman

131 bpm

A Maj

05:58

26

Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op. 27: In a garden shady
Benjamin Britten, Emma Preston-Dunlop, Gill Ross, Penelope Vickers, Peter Mitchell, Richard Savage, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

121 bpm

E Maj

02:30

27

Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op. 27: I cannot grow
Benjamin Britten, Emma Preston-Dunlop, Gill Ross, Penelope Vickers, Peter Mitchell, Richard Savage, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

75 bpm

A Maj

01:55

28

Hymn to St. Cecilia (1942), Op. 27: O ear whose creatures
Benjamin Britten, Emma Preston-Dunlop, Gill Ross, Penelope Vickers, Peter Mitchell, Richard Savage, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

104 bpm

A Maj

05:19

29

Five Flower Songs op.47: 1. To Daffodils
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

86 bpm

D# Maj

01:55

30

Five Flower Songs op.47: 2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

77 bpm

C Maj

01:49

31

Five Flower Songs op.47: 3. Marsh Flowers
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

71 bpm

C min

02:15

32

Five Flower Songs op.47: 4. The Evening Primrose
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

90 bpm

F# Maj

02:42

33

Five Flower Songs op.47: 5. Ballad of Green Broom
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

124 bpm

D min

01:52

34

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 1. Introduction: Shine out
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

104 bpm

A Maj

08:38

35

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 2. The merry cuckoo
Benjamin Britten, John Mark Ainsley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

126 bpm

D Maj

01:55

36

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 3. Spring, the sweet Spring
Benjamin Britten, Alison Hagley, Catherine Robbin, John Mark Ainsley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

86 bpm

F# min

01:41

37

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 4. The driving boy
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, Richard Seal

131 bpm

G# Maj

01:50

38

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 5. The morning star
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

85 bpm

F Maj

02:59

39

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 6. Welcome Maids of Honour
Benjamin Britten, Catherine Robbin, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

75 bpm

D# Maj

02:35

40

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 7. Waters above!
Benjamin Britten, John Mark Ainsley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

73 bpm

B Maj

02:27

41

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed
Benjamin Britten, Catherine Robbin, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

77 bpm

A# min

05:50

42

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 9. When will my May come
Benjamin Britten, John Mark Ainsley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

87 bpm

F min

02:25

43

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 10. Fair and fair
Benjamin Britten, Alison Hagley, John Mark Ainsley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

83 bpm

B min

02:15

44

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 11. Sound the flute!
Benjamin Britten, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, Richard Seal

122 bpm

B min

01:21

45

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: 12. Finale: London, to thee I do present
Benjamin Britten, John Mark Ainsley, Catherine Robbin, Alison Hagley, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, Richard Seal

82 bpm

C Maj

07:32

46

Folksong Arrangements - France: 1. La Noel passée
Benjamin Britten, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

71 bpm

G min

03:34

47

Folksong Arrangements - France: 2. Voici le Printemps
Benjamin Britten, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

129 bpm

F Maj

01:33

48

Folksong Arrangements - France: 3. Fileuse
Benjamin Britten, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

70 bpm

D Maj

01:56

49

Folksong Arrangements - France: 4. Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
Benjamin Britten, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

102 bpm

G# Maj

02:12

50

Folksong Arrangements - France: 5. La belle est au jardin d'amour
Benjamin Britten, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg

71 bpm

A# Maj

02:21