BENJAMIN BRITTEN Centenary Celebration - Hal Leonard

Coming this Fall <strong>BENJAMIN</strong> <strong>BRITTEN</strong>: COLLECTED SONGS edited by Richard Walters Boosey & Hawkes Distributed by <strong>Hal</strong> <strong>Leonard</strong> 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

<strong>BENJAMIN</strong> <strong>BRITTEN</strong> PUBLICATIONS FOR VOICE Published by Boosey & Hawkes, Distributed by <strong>Hal</strong> <strong>Leonard</strong> (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 48019419 Medium/Low 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 48011682 High Voice and Piano $24.95 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