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145 relations: A Birthday Hansel, A Boy Was Born, A Ceremony of Carols, A Charm of Lullabies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), Albert Herring, Alexander Pushkin, André Obey, Arthur Oldham, Arthur Rimbaud, Arthur Waley, Ballad opera, Benjamin Britten, Bertolt Brecht, Billy Budd, Billy Budd (opera), Book of Daniel, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cantata academica, Cantata misericordium, Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Canticles (Britten), Cecil Aronowitz, Cello Sonata (Britten), Cello suites (Britten), Cello Symphony (Britten), Christopher Smart, Classical music written in collaboration, Colin Graham, Colin Matthews, Composer, Curlew River, Death in Venice, Death in Venice (opera), Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra, E. M. Forster, Edith Sitwell, England, Eric Crozier, Fanfare for St Edmundsbury, Festival Te Deum (Britten), Francis Quarles, Friday Afternoons, Funeral Blues, George Crabbe, Gioachino Rossini, Gloriana, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Guy de Maupassant, ..., Henry James, Henry Purcell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herbert Asquith (poet), Herman Melville, Homage to Paderewski, Humphrey Searle, Hymn to St Cecilia, James Blades, Japan, Jean Racine, John Dowland, John Gay, La Fenice, Leeds International Piano Competition, Lennox Berkeley, Les Illuminations (Britten), Lytton Strachey, Matinées Musicales, Men's chorus, Metamorphoses, Michael Tippett, Missa Brevis (Britten), Mont Juic (suite), Montagu Slater, Myfanwy Piper, Night Mail, Nocturnal after John Dowland, Nocturne (Britten), Noh, Noye's Fludde, Our Hunting Fathers, Ovid, Owen Wingrave, Paul Bunyan, Paul Bunyan (operetta), Peter Grimes, Peter Pears, Phaedra (cantata), Piano Concerto (Britten), Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria, Randall Swingler, Rejoice in the Lamb, Robert Burns, Robert Lowell, Ronald Duncan, Sacred and Profane (Britten), Sadler's Wells Theatre, Saint Nicolas (Britten), Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Simple Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, Sinfonietta (Britten), Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Songs from the Chinese, Spring Symphony, String Quartet in D major (Britten), String Quartet No. 1 (Britten), String Quartet No. 2 (Britten), String Quartet No. 3 (Britten), T. S. Eliot, Te Deum in C (Britten), The Beggar's Opera, The Borough (George Crabbe poem), The Burning Fiery Furnace, The Company of Heaven, The Golden Vanity (Britten), The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, The Little Sweep, The Poet's Echo, The Prince of the Pagodas, The Prodigal Son (Britten), The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw, The Turn of the Screw (opera), The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, Violin Concerto (Britten), W. H. Auden, Walter de la Mare, War Requiem, Who Are These Children?, William Plomer, William Primrose, William Shakespeare, William Soutar, William Walton, Winter Words (song cycle), Young Apollo. Expand index (95 more) »
A Birthday Hansel
A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92, is a song cycle for 'high voice' and harp composed by Benjamin Britten and set to texts by Robert Burns.
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A Boy Was Born
A Boy Was Born (published as A Boy was Born), Op. 3, is a choral composition by Benjamin Britten.
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A Ceremony of Carols
A Ceremony of Carols, Op.
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A Charm of Lullabies
A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41 is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Albert Herring
Albert Herring, Op.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (a) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic eraBasker, Michael.
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André Obey
André Obey (8 May 1892 at Douai, France – 11 April 1975 at Montsoreau, near the Loire River) was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years, and into the 1950s.
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Arthur Oldham
Arthur William Oldham OBE (6 September 1926 – 4 May 2003) was an English composer and choirmaster.
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Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet who is known for his influence on modern literature and arts, which prefigured surrealism.
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Arthur Waley
Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
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Ballad opera
The ballad opera is a genre of English stage entertainment that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924 as edited by Raymond M. Weaver, a professor at Columbia University.
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Billy Budd (opera)
Billy Budd, Op.
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Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel is a biblical apocalypse, combining a prophecy of history with an eschatology (the study of last things) which is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus.
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Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cambridge Arts Theatre is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill and St Edward's Passage in central Cambridge, England.
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Cantata academica
Cantata academica, Carmen basiliense (Op. 62) is a 1959 choral work on a Latin text by the English composer Benjamin Britten.
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Cantata misericordium
Cantata misericordium, op. 69, is a 1963 musical composition by British composer Benjamin Britten.
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Canticle III: Still falls the rain
Canticle III: Still falls the rain is a piece by English composer Benjamin Britten.
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Canticles (Britten)
The five Canticles constitute a series of five musical works by composer Benjamin Britten.
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Cecil Aronowitz
Cecil Aronowitz (4 March 19167 September 1978) was a British viola player, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble, a leading chamber musician and an influential teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Cello Sonata (Britten)
The Cello Sonata, Op.
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Cello suites (Britten)
The cello suites by Benjamin Britten (Opp. 72, 80, and 87) are a series of three compositions for solo cello, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Cello Symphony (Britten)
The Symphony for Cello and Orchestra or Cello Symphony, Op. 68, was written in 1963 by the British composer Benjamin Britten.
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Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771), was an English poet.
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Classical music written in collaboration
In classical music, it is relatively rare for a work to be written in collaboration by multiple composers.
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Colin Graham
Colin Graham OBE (22 September 1931 in Hove, England – 6 April 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a stage director of opera, theatre, and television.
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Colin Matthews
Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of classical music.
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Composer
A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.
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Curlew River
Curlew River – A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is an English music drama with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer.
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig.
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Death in Venice (opera)
Death in Venice is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, his last.
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Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra
Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra, Op.
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.
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Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eric Crozier
Eric Crozier OBE (14 November 1914 - 7 September 1994) was a British theatrical director and opera librettist, long associated with Benjamin Britten.
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Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
The Fanfare for St Edmundsbury is a fanfare for three trumpets written by the British composer Benjamin Britten for a "Pageant of Magna Carta" in the grounds of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds in 1959.
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Festival Te Deum (Britten)
The Festival Te Deum, Op.
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Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles (8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems.
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Friday Afternoons
Friday Afternoons is a collection of 12 songs by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, where his brother, Robert, was headmaster.
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Funeral Blues
"Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden.
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George Crabbe
George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.
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Gloriana
Gloriana, Op.
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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Henry James
Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
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Herbert Asquith (poet)
Herbert Dixon Asquith (11 March 1881 – 5 August 1947) was an English poet, novelist, and lawyer.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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Homage to Paderewski
Homage to Paderewski is an album of piano pieces by 17 composers, published in 1942 in honour of the Polish pianist, composer and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
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Humphrey Searle
Humphrey Searle (26 August 191512 May 1982) was an English composer.
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Hymn to St Cecilia
Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942.
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James Blades
James "Jimmy" Blades OBE (9 September 190119 May 1999) was an English percussionist.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jean Racine
Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
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John Dowland
John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer.
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John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.
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La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy.
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Leeds International Piano Competition
The Leeds International Piano Competition, informally known as The Leeds and formerly the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, takes place every three years in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
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Les Illuminations (Britten)
(The Illuminations), Op. 18, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1940.
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Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic.
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Matinées Musicales
Matinées musicales is a 1941 composition by Benjamin Britten.
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Men's chorus
A men's chorus or male voice choir (MVC) (German: Männerchor), is a choir consisting of men who sing with either a tenor or bass voice, and whose music is typically arranged into high and low tenors (1st and 2nd tenor), and high and low basses (1st and 2nd bass; or baritone and bass)—and shortened to the letters TTBB.
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Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses (Metamorphōseōn librī: "Books of Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.
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Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.
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Missa Brevis (Britten)
The Missa Brevis in D, Op.
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Mont Juic (suite)
Mont Juic, suite of Catalan dances for orchestra, was written jointly by Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten in 1937.
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Montagu Slater
Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright and librettist.
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Myfanwy Piper
Mary Myfanwy Piper (Welsh:; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist.
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Night Mail
Night Mail is a 1936 English documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) film unit.
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Nocturnal after John Dowland
Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 is a classical guitar piece composed in 1963 by English composer Benjamin Britten for guitarist Julian Bream.
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Nocturne (Britten)
Nocturne, Op. 60, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, written for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings.
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Noh
, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
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Noye's Fludde
Noye's Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children.
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Our Hunting Fathers
Our Hunting Fathers, Op.
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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave, Op.
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Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack in American folklore.
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Paul Bunyan (operetta)
Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.
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Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the narrative poem, "Peter Grimes," in George Crabbe's book The Borough.
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Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.
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Phaedra (cantata)
Phaedra, Op.
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Piano Concerto (Britten)
Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto, Op.
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Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria
Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria is a work for solo organ composed by Benjamin Britten in 1946.
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Randall Swingler
Randall Swingler MM (28 May 1909 – 1967) was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest.
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Rejoice in the Lamb
Rejoice in the Lamb (Op. 30) is a cantata for four soloists, SATB choir, and organ composed by Benjamin Britten in 1943 and based on the poem Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (1722–1771).
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.
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Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.
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Ronald Duncan
Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was a writer, poet and playwright, now best known for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946.
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Sacred and Profane (Britten)
Sacred and Profane, Op.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.
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Saint Nicolas (Britten)
Saint Nicolas is a cantata with music by Benjamin Britten and text by Eric Crozier, written in 1948.
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Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente
Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente (English: Six Hölderlin Fragments) is a song cycle for high voice and piano composed in 1958 by Benjamin Britten (191376), and published as his Op. 61.
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.
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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) for tenor voice and piano in 1940, and published as his Op. 22.
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Simple Symphony
The Simple Symphony, Op.
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Sinfonia da Requiem
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op.
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Sinfonietta (Britten)
Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta was composed in 1932, while he was a student at the Royal College of Music, aged 18.
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Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (Op. 49) is a piece of program music for solo oboe written by English composer Benjamin Britten in 1951.
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Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) in 1965 for baritone voice and piano and published as his Op. 74.
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Songs from the Chinese
Songs from the Chinese is a song cycle for soprano or tenor and guitar composed in 1957 by Benjamin Britten (191376), and published as his Op. 58.
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Spring Symphony
The Spring Symphony is Benjamin Britten's Opus 44.
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String Quartet in D major (Britten)
String Quartet in D major (it has neither an official number nor an opus number) by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was written in 1931.
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String Quartet No. 1 (Britten)
String Quartet No.
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String Quartet No. 2 (Britten)
String Quartet No.
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String Quartet No. 3 (Britten)
String Quartet No.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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Te Deum in C (Britten)
The Te Deum in C is a sacred choral composition by Benjamin Britten, a setting of the Te Deum on the English text from the Book of Common Prayer.
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The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
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The Borough (George Crabbe poem)
The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810.
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The Burning Fiery Furnace
The Burning Fiery Furnace is an English music drama with music composed by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 77, to a libretto by William Plomer.
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The Company of Heaven
The Company of Heaven is a composition for soloists, speakers, choir, timpani, organ, and string orchestra by Benjamin Britten.
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The Golden Vanity (Britten)
The Golden Vanity is a musical setting of an adaptation by Colin Graham of a traditional folk song, also known as "The Sweet Trinity", for boys' voices (five soloists and chorus) and piano by the English composer Benjamin Britten (191376).
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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten (191376) for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35.
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The Little Sweep
The Little Sweep, Op.
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The Poet's Echo
The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Поета Эхо) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia.
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The Prince of the Pagodas
The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet in 1957, by choreographer John Cranko, with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten.
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The Prodigal Son (Britten)
The Prodigal Son is an opera by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer.
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The Rape of Lucretia
The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role.
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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898).
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The Turn of the Screw (opera)
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas".
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.
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Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10, is a work for string orchestra by Benjamin Britten.
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Variations on an Elizabethan Theme
Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (also seen as Variations on Sellinger's Round) is a set of variations for string orchestra, written collaboratively in 1952 by six English composers: Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Michael Tippett and William Walton.
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Violin Concerto (Britten)
Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto, Op.
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W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.
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Walter de la Mare
Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist.
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War Requiem
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.
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Who Are These Children?
Who Are These Children? is a song cycle for tenor and piano composed in 1969 by Benjamin Britten (191376), and published as his Op. 84.
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William Plomer
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor.
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William Primrose
William Primrose CBE (23 August 19041 May 1982) was a Scottish violist and teacher.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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William Soutar
William Soutar (28 April 1898 – 15 October 1943) was a Scottish poet and diarist, who wrote in both English and Braid Scots, and is known best for his epigrams.
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William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.
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Winter Words (song cycle)
Winter Words, Op. 52, is a song cycle for tenor and piano by Benjamin Britten.
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Young Apollo
Young Apollo, Op.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Benjamin_Britten
