BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard

BENJAMIN BRITTEN 

Centenary Celebration 

(One Year Early for Plan Ahead Programming) 

Beverly O’Regan Thiele, soprano 

Christine O’Meally, mezzo-soprano 

Steven Stolen, tenor 

Kurt Ollmann, baritone 

Richard Walters, pianist and presenter 

NATS National Conference 

Orlando 

Sunday, July 1, 2012 

1:00 PM 

Presented by 

Boosey & Hawkes publications are exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard.

Benjamin Britten 

1913-1976


Centenary Celebration 

selections to be performed, 

with readings from Britten’s writings and media clips 

Sonnet XVI from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo 

To lie flat on the back from Fish in the Unruffled Lakes 

Steven Stolen 

Now the leaves are falling fast from On This Island 

Beverly O’Regan Thiele 

Mother Comfort 

Beverly O’Regan Thiele, Christine O’Meally 

Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), opening section only 

Christine O’Meally, Steven Stolen 

Morning from Evening, Morning, Night 

At Day-Close in November from Winter Words 

The Choirmaster’s Burial from Winter Words 

Kurt Ollmann 

Evening Hymn, Henry Purcell, realization by Britten 

Steven Stolen 

Folksong Arrangements: 

The Last Rose of Summer 

Come you not from Newcastle? 

Beverly O’Regan Thiele 

The Salley Gardens 

The Brisk Young Widow 

Kurt Ollmann 

Richard Walters, pianist and presenter

Sonnet XVI from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo 

translation of the Italian text 

Just as there is a high, a low, and a middle style in pen 

and ink, and as within the marble are images rich and poor, 

according as our fancy knows how to draw them forth: 

so within your heart, dear love, there are perhaps, as well as 

pride, some humble feelings: but I draw thence only what is my 

desert and like to what I show outside on my face. 

Whoever sows sighs, tears and lamentations (Heaven’s moisture 

on earth, simple and pure, adapts itself differently to different 

seeds) reaps and gathers grief and sadness: 

whoever looks on high beauty with so great a grief reaps 

doubtful hopes and sure and bitter pain. 

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Known for her consummate acting and clear, silver-toned, warm voice, Iowa native BEVERLY O’REGAN THIELE is 

among the best in her field for her interpretation of contemporary opera and equally at home in the classics, concert and 

recital work. Her successes include Magda Sorel in The Consul, which she sang with Washington National Opera as well 

as with Berkshire Opera, and recorded the role on the Newport Classics Label. She returned to WNO to sing Blanche in 

Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Ms. O'Regan Thiele created leading soprano roles in two world premieres for 

Michael Nyman: Man and Boy Dada and Love Counts, both with the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, Germany. Also 

in Karlsruhe, she sang Chrysothemis in Elektra, Giulietta in Les contes d’Hoffmann and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, a 

role she also sang with Lyric Opera of Chicago and New York City Opera. She has sung Miss Jessel in The Turn of the 

Screw with the Broomhill Opera Festival in the UK, and the title role in the East Coast premiere of Tobias Picker's 

Thérèse Raquin. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the title role in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah with Des 

Moines Metro Opera, as well as Arkadina in the professional premiere of Thomas Pasatierie's latest rendition of The 

Seagull with New York’s Dicapo Opera, a role she repeated in Szeged, Hungary. Other roles: Donna Elvira with 

Glimmerglass Opera, Mississippi Opera and Toledo Opera; Fiordiligi with Lake George Opera, Opera Omaha and Fort 

Worth Opera; Musetta with New York City Opera and Orlando Opera. Ms. O'Regan Thiele has appeared with the 

Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Washington National Opera in Die Walkure, Elektra, Die Frau ohne 

Schatten, War and Peace, Moses und Aaron, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. She ventured into the musical theatre genre as 

Rosabella in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella with Utah Opera Festival. Her inspirational CD, Live in the Light,was 

released in 2010. She may be heard on the Hal Leonard recordings The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Soprano, 

Benjamin Britten: 12 Selected Folksong Arrangements, and Folksongs in Recital. 

Mezzo-soprano CHRISTINE O’MEALLY has performed everything from the motets of J.S. Bach to the melodies of 

Irving Berlin to the minimalism of Philip Glass. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called her voice “an amazing 

instrument.” The Washington Post said, “her voice is lovely and her stage presence is natural and full of vitality.” Her 

performances include appearances with Racine Symphony, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee, Washington Bach Consort, 

Opera Theater of Northern Virginia, Washington Savoyards, In Tandem Theatre, Windfall Theater, The Young Victorian 

Theater of Baltimore, and Skylight Opera Theatre. She created the role of The Woman in Red in Dominick Argento’s A 

Dream of Valentino in its world premiere with the Washington Opera. Her concert appearances include performances with 

the Racine Symphony as the alto soloist in the Mozart Requiem, Wheaton Symphony, Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee, 

Milwaukee Choral Artists, Washington Bach Consort, Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Milwaukee Symphony 

Orchestra. On recordings, Ms. O’Meally may be heard on Mark Brymer’s Christmas Suite with Milwaukee Children's 

Choir under the direction of Emily Crocker, Flight Box with Present Music, and in “Cinq Poèmes de Tristan Tzara” with 

pianist Milton Peckarsky on the CD La Clé de L’Horizon. A NATS member since 1997 and a past participant in the 

NATS intern program, she is on the faculties of Cardinal Stritch University and at Carroll University, and maintains a 

private voice studio in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Ms. O’Meally received an M.M. in vocal performance from the Peabody 

Conservatory in Baltimore.

American baritone KURT OLLMANN first came to prominence singing Riff on the Deutsche Grammophon recording of 

West Side Story, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Ollmann’s operatic career has since taken him to La Scala, the 

Vienna State Opera, the Rome Opera, Brussels’ La Monnaie, the Wexford Festival, as well as the Seattle, Los Angeles, 

Washington, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass and New York City opera companies. He has sung with the London Symphony 

Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Paris, Rome’s Accademia de Santa Cecilia, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber 

Orchestra, and the orchestras of Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, among many others. A noted recitalist, Mr. Ollmann 

studied song literature with Gérard Souzay and Pierre Bernac, and has made a specialty of French and American song 

literature. He has premiered works by Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem, Michael Torke, Richard Danielpour and Peter 

Lieberson, and has appeared regularly with the New York Festival of Song. His recordings include songs of Leguerney 

with pianist Mary Dibbern, songs of Roussel with pianist Dalton Baldwin, Schumann songs with pianist Michael Barrett, 

and Rorem songs with the composer. Other recordings include Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Placido Domingo, 

Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! with Dawn Upshaw, Bernstein’s Candide and West Side Story, Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole under 

André Previn, and Pelléas et Melisande. Mr. Ollmann has recorded for Hal Leonard Corporation since 2004, and can be 

heard on several companion CDs with music books, including Samuel Barber: 10 Selected Songs, Britten: 12 Selected 

Folksong Arrangements, Folksongs in Recital, The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Baritone/Bass, and others. Mr. 

Ollmann is on the voice faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

Tenor STEVEN STOLEN enjoys an active and eclectic life as a singing artist, educator, arts administrator and 

community leader. His singing experiences have included solo appearances with many of the country’s finest symphony 

orchestras including the symphonies of San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis, San Antonio, the St. Paul 

Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik of Toronto and many others. Mr. Stolen has appeared 

many times with the Indianapolis Symphony. He has sung at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra 

and made his New York debut as Jonathan in Handel’s Saul at the BAM Festival. He is the founder and Resident Artist of 

Meridian Song Project in Indianapolis, the only vocal chamber music series of its kind in the midwest. Mr. Stolen enjoyed 

a long career in academia, serving on the faculties at Central Michigan University, Roanoke College, his alma mater, 

Simpson College, Bowling Green State University, and nearly fifteen years at Butler University, where he also served as 

head of the music department in the Jordan College of Fine Arts and as Executive Director of Major Gifts and Campaign 

Programs with Butler’s office of University Advancement. After a successful tenure as Executive Director of the 

Indianapolis Children’s Choir, Mr. Stolen was named Managing Director of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, where he 

serves as co-CEO, managing and directing the administrative, financial and overall business affairs of Indiana’s largest 

professional theatre company. He is co-editor of two editions published by Hal Leonard, English Songs: Renaissance to 

Baroque, and Schubert: 100 Songs. He has been a recording artist for Hal Leonard since 1991, heard on dozens of 

companion CDs to music publications, including Benjamin Britten: 12 Selected Folksong Arrangements, Samuel Barber: 

10 Selected Songs, Folksongs in Recital, 14 Sacred Solos, and The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein for Tenor. 

RICHARD WALTERS is Vice President of Classical and Vocal Publications at Hal Leonard Corporation, and directs 

publishing and marketing of G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes and Hal Leonard publications for voice, classical piano, 

classical solo instrumental and chamber music. He also directs distribution of Schott, Henle and other European 

publishers, and is closely involved in managing Hal Leonard’s classical European ventures, which includes directing the 

publishing for Ricordi, Durand and Salabert. Richard has edited more than 60 volumes in The Vocal Library series, 

including The Oratorio Anthology, Standard Vocal Literature, and collections of songs by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, 

Fauré and Quilter. He is editor of the four-volume G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology, Samuel Barber: 65 Songs, 

Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements, and the 30-volume series The Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, 

among hundreds of publications. He has produced and performed as a pianist on over 100 recordings, often working with 

singers. In addition to his music publishing career, Richard is a composer who writes primarily for the voice. His 

distinctive concert arrangements are published in The Sacred Collection, American Folksongs, Folksongs in Recital, The 

Christmas Collection, and other collections. He was educated with a degree in piano from Simpson College, where he was 

a coaching student of Robert Larsen, and studied composition with Sven Lekberg. His graduate study in composition at 

the University of Minnesota was with Dominick Argento.

Coming this Fall 

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: 

COLLECTED SONGS 

edited by Richard Walters 

Boosey & Hawkes 

Distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation 

Release Date: October, 2012 

48019418 High Voice $29.99 

48019419 Medium/Low Voice $29.99 

63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano 

published by Boosey & Hawkes. The content is the same for the High Voice and Medium/Low Voice volumes, 

with newly published transpositions as necessary. 

CONTENTS 

The Birds (original key: Medium/Low; transposed for the High Voice edition) 

A CHARM OF LULLABIES (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition) 

A Cradle Song ● The Highland Balou ● Sephestia’s Lullaby ● A Charm ● The Nurse’s Song 

EVENING, MORNING, NIGHT (original key: Medium/Low Voice; transposed for the High Voice edition) 

three songs from This Way to the Tomb: Evening: The red fox, the sun ● Morning ● Night 

FISH IN THE UNRUFFLED LAKES (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

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 

THE HOLY SONNETS OF JOHN DONNE (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

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 

loved ● At the round earth’s imagined corners ● Thou hast made me ● Death, be not proud 

ON THIS ISLAND (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

Let the florid music praise! ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ● Nocturne ● As it is, plenty 

SECHS HÖLDERLIN-FRAGMENTE (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens 

SEVEN SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ● Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV 

SONGS FROM THE CHINESE,(originally for High Voice and Guitar; transcribed for High Voice and Piano for this edition; 

transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

The Big Chariot ● The Old Lute ● The Autumn Wind ● The Herd-Boy ● Depression ● Dance Song 

THREE SONGS FROM ‘THE HEART OF THE MATTER’ (originally for Tenor, Horn and Piano; transposed for the 

Medium/Low Voice edition) 

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 

WINTER WORDS (original key: High Voice; transposed for the Medium/Low Voice edition) 

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 ● Songs cut from the cycle: If it’s ever spring again ● 

The Children and Sir Nameless 

TWO BALLADS (duets for High Voice and Medium/Low Voice) 

Mother Comfort ● Underneath the abject willow


PUBLICATIONS FOR VOICE 

Published by Boosey & Hawkes, Distributed by Hal Leonard 

(Note: additional Britten works are published by Faber Music, distributed in North America by Alfred) 

SOLO VOICE AND PIANO 

Forthcoming, Fall 2012 release: 

Collected Songs 

edited by Richard Walters 

63 songs 

48019418 High Voice $29.99 


release date is October, 2012 

The Birds 

composed 1934; text by Hilaire Belloc 

48008882 Medium Voice and Piano $9.95 

Canticle I (My Beloved Is Mine), Op. 40 

composed 1947; text by Francis Quarles 

48008891 High Voice and Piano $27.95 

A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41 

5 songs; composed 1947; texts by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, John Philip, Thomas Randolph; Contents: A Cradle 

Song ● The Highland Balou ● Sephestia’s Lullaby ● A Charm ● The Nurse’s Song 

48008897 Mezzo-Soprano and Piano $25.25 

Evening, Morning, Night 

3 songs from This Way to the Tomb (incidental music to the play Masque and Anti-Masque); 

composed 1945 (published posthumously) 

48011080 Medium Voice and Harp (or Piano) $18.95 

Fish in the Unruffled Lakes 

6 songs; composed 1937-1941 (published posthumously); texts by W.H. Auden; Contents: 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 


The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 

9 songs; composed 1945; texts by John Donne; Contents: Oh my black Soule! ● Batter my heart ● Oh 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 

48008926 High Voice and Piano (imported edition) $34.95 

Les Illuminations, Op. 18 

9 songs; composed 1939; originally for high voice and string orchestra; texts (in French) by Arthur Rimbaud; Contents: Fanfare ● 

Villes ● Phrase; Antique ● Royauté ● Marine ● Interlude ● Being Beauteous ● Parade ● Départ 

48008932 Soprano or Tenor and Piano Reduction $32.95

Nocturne, Op. 60 

8 songs; composed 1958; originally for tenor, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra; texts by Shelley, Tennyson, Coleridge, 

Middleton, Wordsworth, Owen, Keats, Shakespeare 

48008954 Tenor and Piano Reduction $31.95 

On This Island, Op. 11 

5 songs; composed 1937; texts by W.H. Auden; Contents: Let the florid music praise ● Now the leaves are falling fast ● Seascape ● 

Nocturne ● As it is, plenty 


Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8 

3 songs plus prologue and epilogue; composed 1936; originally a symphonic cycle for high voice and orchestra; texts by W.H. Auden, 

Thomas Ravenscroft, and anonymous; Contents: Prologue ● Rats away! ● Messalina ● Dance of Death ● Epilogue and Funeral 

March 

48008966 High Voice and Piano Reduction $31.00 

Sechs Hölderlin Fragmente, Op. 61 

6 songs; composed 1958; texts (in German) by Friedrich Hölderlin; Contents: Menschenbeifall ● Die Heimat ● Sokrates und 

Alcibiades ● Die Jugend ● Hälfte des Lebens ● Die Linien des Lebens 


Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 

7 songs; composed 1940; texts (in Italian) by Michelangeo Buonarroti; Contents: Sonetto XVI ● Sonetto XXXI ● Sonetto XXX ● 

Sonetto LV ● Sonetto XXXVIII ● Sonetto XXXII ● Sonetto XXIV 

48008998 Tenor and Piano $27.95 

Winter Words, Op. 52 

8 songs; composed 1953; texts by Thomas Hardy (two additional songs were composed and added as an appendix posthumously); 

Contents: 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; two cut songs from the cycle: 

If’it’s ever spring again ● The Children and Sir Nameless 


REALIZATIONS FOR SOLO VOICE AND PIANO 

Selections from The Beggar’s Opera 

Ballad opera by John Gay; realization by Britten 1947-48 

Contents: ’Tis woman that seduces all mankind (tenor) ● If love the virgin’s heart invade (mezzo-soprano) ● Virgins are like the fair 

flower (mezzo-soprano) ● I, like a ship in storms, was tossed (mezzo-soprano) ● A fox may steal your hens, Sir (duet, mezzosoprano/bass) 

● The miser thus a shilling sees (duet, mezzo-soprano/tenor) ● If the heart of a man is depressed with cares (tenor) ● 

Man may escape from rope and gun (tenor) ● Thus when a good housewife sees a rat/How cruel are the traytors (soprano) ● Why how 

now, Madam Flirt! (duet, soprano/mezzo-soprano) ● When young at the bar/Ungrateful Macheath! (soprano) ● Thus gamesters united 

in friendship (baritone) ● I’m like a skiff on the ocean tossed (soprano) ● O cruel, cruel case! (tenor) 

48019420 13 Solo Airs for Various Voice Types and 3 Duets $14.95 

The Purcell Collection 

realizations by Britten, composed over many years, including selections from Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen; with extensive 

introductory notes; for complete contents search at www.halleonard.com 

48019095 High Voice, 50 selections $27.95 

48019096 Medium/Low Voice, 45 selections $27.95 

Realizations for Solo Voice and Piano, continued 

Purcell: 12 Selected Songs 

realizations by Britten; Contents: Fairest Isle ● Hark the ech’ing air ● How blest are shepherds ● I attempt from love’s sickness to fly 

● I’ll sail upon the Dog-star ● If music be the food of love ● Man is for the woman made ● Music for a while ● On the brow of 

Richmond Hill ● There’s not a swain of the plain ● Turn then thine eyes ● We sing to him. 

48019965 High Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99 

48019966 Medium/Low Voice, with CD of accompaniments $17.99

FOLKSONG ARRANGEMENTS: SOLO VOICE AND PIANO 

Complete Folksong Arrangements 

61 songs, with extensive introductory notes; includes Volumes 1-6, Eight Folksong Arrangements (1976), and Tom Bowling and 

Other Song Arrangements (note: songs originally composed for harp or guitar accompaniment are transcribed for piano in this 

collection) 

48018781 High Voice $29.99 


12 Selected Folksong Arrangements 

Contents: The Ash Grove ● At the mid hour of night ● The Brisk Young Widow ● Come you not from Newcastle? ● Early one 

morning ● Greensleeves ● I will give my love an apple ● O Waly, Waly ● Sail on, sail on ● The Salley Gardens ● Sweet Polly Oliver 

● There’s none to soothe 

48019746 High Voice, with CD of performances and accompaniments $17.95 

48019747 Medium/Low Voice, with CD of performances and accompaniments $17.95 

Folksong Arrangements Volume 1: British Isles 

7 songs; arrangements composed 1941-42; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: The Salley Gardens ● Little Sir William ● 

The Bonny Earl o’ Moray ● O can ye sew cushions? ● The trees they grow so high ● The Ash Grove ● Oliver Cromwell 

48008913 High Voice $23.95 

48008912 Medium Voice $23.95 

Folksong Arrangements Volume 2: France 

8 songs; arrangements composed 1942; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: La Noël passée ● Voice le printemps ● Fileuse 

● Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse ● La belle est au jardin d’amour ● Il est quelqu’un sur terre ● Eho! Eho! ● Quand j’étais chez mon père 

48008915 High Voice $23.95 

48008914 Medium Voice $23.95 


7 songs; arrangements composed 1945-46; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: The Plough Boy ● There’s none to soothe ● 

Sweet Polly Oliver ● The Miller of Dee ● The Foggy, Foggy Dew ● O Waly, Waly ● Come you not from Newcastle? 

48008917 High Voice $23.95 

48008916 Medium Voice $23.95 

Folksong Arrangements Volume 4: Moore’s Irish Melodies 

10 songs; arrangements composed 1957; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: Avenging and bright ● Sail on, sail on ● How 

sweet the answer ● The Minstrel Boy ● At the mid hour of night ● Rich and rare ● Dear Harp of my Country! ● Oft in the stilly night 

● The last rose of summer ● O the sight entrancing ● 

48008918 High Voice $23.95 


5 songs; arrangements composed 1951-59; originally for high voice and piano; Contents: The Brisk Young Widow ● Sally in our 

Alley ● The Lincolnshire Poacher ● Early one morning ● Ca’ the yowes 

48008919 Medium Voice $23.95 

Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements 

10 songs; arrangements composed at various times, published posthumously; Contents: Tom Bowling ● The Crocodile ● Dink’s Song 

● Greensleeves ● The Holly and the Ivy ● I wonder as I wander ● Pray goody ● The Deaf Woman’s Courtship ● Soldier, won’t you 

marry me? ● The Stream in the Valley (with cello) 

48011901 Medium Voice and Piano (with Cello on one song) $32.95 

TWO VOICES AND PIANO 

Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), Op. 51 

composed 1952; text from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham 

48008892 Alto, Tenor and Piano $27.25

Two Ballads 

composed 1936; texts by Montagu Slater, W.H. Auden 

Mother Comfort, Underneath the abject willow 

48012255 $29.95 

SOLO VOICE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS 

Canticle III (Still falls the rain), Op. 55 

composed 1954; text by Edith Sitwell 

48008893 Tenor, Horn, Piano $29.95 

Evening, Morning, Night 

from This Way to the Tomb (incidental music to the play Masque and Anti-Masque) 

composed 1944-45; texts by Ronald Duncan 

48011080 Medium Voice and Harp (or Piano) $18.95 

Folksong Arrangements Volume 6: England 

6 songs; arrangements composed 1956-58; Contents: I will give my love an apple ● Sailor-boy ● Master Kilby ● The Solder and the 

Sailor ● Bonny at Morn ● The Shooting of His Dear (this set was transcribed for voice and piano in the publication Complete 

Folksong Arrangements) 

48008920 High Voice and Guitar $23.95 

Now sleeps the crimson petal 

composed 1943 (originally for the Serenade, but omitted from the set; published posthumously); text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 

48011025 Tenor, Horn, Piano Reduction $20.95 

Serenade, Op. 31 

6 songs, with horn prologue and epilogue; composed 1943; originally for tenor, horn and strings; texts by Charles Cotton; Alfred, 

Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Anonymous; Contents: Pastoral ● Nocturne ● Elegy ● Dirge ● Hymn ● 

Sonnet 

48008997 Tenor, Horn, Piano Reduction $35.50 

Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58 

6 songs; composed 1957; texts by Chinese poets, translated by Arthur Waley; Contents: The Big Chariot ● The Old Lute ● The 

Autumn Wind ● The Herd-Boy ● Depression ● Dance Song 

48009005 High Voice and Guitar $29.95 

Three Songs from the Heart of the Matter 

composed 1956 (published posthumously); texts by Edith Sitwell; Contents: Prologue, Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire ● We 

are the darkness in the heat of the day ● Epilogue, So, out of the dark 

48011559 Tenor, Horn, Piano $24.95 

VOICE WITH ORCHESTRA 

Full Scores or Study Scores 

14 Folksongs (orchestrated, High Voice and Orchestra) 

48011800 Study Score $48.95 

Nocturne 

48008953 Study Score $27.95 

Our Hunting Fathers 

48008965 Study Score $30.95 

48001182 Full Score $60.00 

Works for Voice and Chamber Orchestra 

includes Les Illuminations, Nocturne, Serenade, Now sleeps the crimson petal 

48011956 Study Score $48.95

OPERA 

Opera Vocal Scores 

(all are imported editions) 

48008871 Albert Herring $133.95 

48009753 The Beggar’s Opera (Gay, realization) $77.95 

48008880 Billy Budd $133.95 

48009246 Dido and Aeneas (Purcell, realization) $42.95 

48008921 Gloriana $125.95 

48008969 Peter Grimes $133.95 

48008939 The Little Sweep (Let’s Make an Opera) $53.95 

48008945 A Midsummer Night’s Dream $135.00 

48008957 Noye’s Fludde $49.95 

48008982 The Rape of Lucretia $135.95 

48009023 The Turn of the Screw $135.00 

Collected Opera Arias 

Operatic Arias, Soprano Book 1 

9 arias; Contents: Let her among you without fault (Peter Grimes) ● Embroidery Aria (Peter Grimes) ● Glitter of waves and glitter of 

sunlight (Peter Grimes) ● Now then! Notebook, Florence (Albert Herring) ● Is this all you can bring (Albert Herring) ● I’m full of 

happiness (Albert Herring) ● Soliloquy and Prayer “On rivalries, ’tis safe for kings” (Gloriana) ● She sleeps as a rose (The Rape of 

Lucretia) ● Time treads upon the hands of women (The Rape of Lucretia) 

48008484 $16.99 

Operatic Arias, Soprano Book 2 

9 arias; Contents: Run, poor sweep boy! (The Little Sweep) ● Soon the coach will cary you away (The Little Sweep) ● The Journey – 

Nearly There (The Turn of the Screw) ● The Tower – How beautiful it is (The Turn of the Screw) ● Lost in my labyrinth (The Turn of 

the Screw) ● Go to sleep, my dolly dear (The Turn of the Screw) ● Come, now a roundel (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Be kind 

and courteous (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Injurious Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 

48008485 $16.99 

Operatic Arias, Mezzo-Soprano 

6 arias; Contents: Doctor Jessop’s midwife (Albert Herring) ● What would Missus Herring say? (Albert Herring) ● Ah! 

Blackguards! (The Little Sweep) ● Give him this orchid (The Rape of Lucretia) ● Quint, Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw) ● I 

know a bank where the wild thyme blows (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 

48008486 $15.50 

Operatic Arias, Tenor Book 1 

8 arias; Contents: Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter Grimes) ● Go there! (Peter Grimes) ● Here the thirsty ev’ning has drunk 

the wine of light (The Rape of Lucretia) ● Tarquinius does not dare (The Rape of Lucretia) ● I am an old man (Billy Budd) ● God o’ 

mercy (Billy Budd) ● I accept their verdict (Billy Budd) ● We committed his body to the deep (Billy Budd) 

48008503 $14.95 

Operatic Arias, Tenor Book 2 

9 arias; Contents: As representing our local council (Albert Herring) ● Albert the Good! (Albert Herring) ● O go, go! Go away! 

(Albert Herring) ● I can’t remember everything (Albert Herring) ● Second Lute Song “Happy Were He” (Gloriana) ● Scena: O cruel 

case! (The Beggar’s Opera) ● Miles! (The Turn of the Screw) ● Asleep, my love? (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 

48008504 $16.99 

Operatic Arias, Baritone 

8 arias; Contents: Virtue, says holy writ (Albert Herring) ● Tickling a trout (Albert Herring) ● Churchyard’s agog with a crowd of 

folks (Albert Herring) ● Caution is better, sweet Highness (Gloriana) ● Within this frail crucible of light (The Rape of Lucretia) ● 

Jemmy legs likes me (Billy Budd) ● Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray! (Billy Budd) ● I had to strike down that 

Jemmy legs (Billy Budd) 

48008505 $15.95

Collected Opera Arias, continued 

Operatic Arias, Baritone/Bass 

6 arias; Raleigh’s Song “As your Highness commands” (Gloriana) ● How bitter of you (The Rape of Lucretia) ● O beauty, O 

handsomeness, goodness (Billy Budd) ● Good wife, let be all this beare (Noye’s Fludde) ● Bottom’s Dream: When my cue comes, call 

me (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ● Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 

48008511 $14.95 

available separately 

Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes 

48005695 Soprano $5.75 

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Beware! (3 Early Songs) 

A Birthday Hansel 

Cradle Song 

Cabaret Songs 

Canticle IV 

Canticle V 

Five Songs from Harmonia Sacra (realizations) 

Eight Folksong Arrangements 

Purcell: A Miscellany of Songs (realizations) 

Quatre chansons françaises 

Phaedra 

The Poet’s Echo 

The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs 

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake 

Tit for Tat (5 Settings from Boyhood) 

Who are these children? 

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