Parables for church performance

2013 marks Brittens centenary making this year an important one for his music 'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Britten was keen to provide the singer with a work for her recital programmes, and was helped in the choice of texts by Evans' husband Eric Crozier, who had recently written the libretto for Albert Herring. The work brings together an anthology of diverse texts unified by the themes of night and sleep and is one of the most welcoming and uncomplicated of Britten's song-cycles. This new arrangement presented in the Hawkes Pocket Score Series differs from the original piano version in several respects, in particular by expanding it to give it the extra dimension needed for an orchestral song-cycle, and by joining the first three songs, and the fourth and fifth, in effect presenting the cycle in two parts. Instrumentation : mezzo-soprano and orchestra op. 41

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1474

Words are taken from the Gradual of the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. Instrumentation : soprano, mixed choir (SATB) and organ op. 56a

Winthrop Rogers Edition

Collected songs

Complete folksongs arrangements chant

A new unaccompanied choral work arranged by Ronald Duncan. Instrumentation : soprano, tenor, mixed choir and organ op. 46

A Wedding Anthem - Amo Ergo Sum. op. 46. soprano, tenor, mixed choir and organ. Réduction pour piano.

12 selected folksong arrangements  +cd

'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Keen to provide her with a work for her recital programmes, Britten was helped in the choice of texts for 'A Charm of Lullabies' by Evans' husband Eric Crozier, who had recently written the libretto for Albert Herring. The work brings together an anthology of diverse texts unified by the themes of night and sleep and is one of the most genial and uncomplicated of Britten's song-cycles. Colin Matthews's arrangement differs in several respects from the original piano version, in particular by expanding it to give it the extra dimension needed for an orchestral song-cycle, and by joining the first three songs, and the fourth and fifth, in effect presenting the cycle in two parts. Instrumentation : mezzo-soprano and orchestra op. 41

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