Birds, The | British Music Collection

Birds, The

Benjamin Britten

Browse Works

Advance Democracy

Albert Herring

Alla Marcia

Alpine Suite

American Overture, An

Antiphon

Ash Grove, The

At The Mid Hour Of Night

Avenging and Bright

Ballad Of Heroes

Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, The

Ballads from Paul Bunyan

Beggar's Opera, The

Belle est au jardin d'amour, La

Beware

Billy Budd

Bird Scarer's Song

Birds, The

Birthday Hansel, A

Bonny Earl O'Moray, The

Boy Was Born, A

Brisk Young Widow, The

Building Of The House, The

Burning Fiery Furnace, The

Cabaret Songs

Canadian Carnival

Cantata Academica, Carmen Basieliense

Cantata misericordium

Canticle 1

Canticle 2

Canticle 3

Canticle 4

Canticle 5

Ca' the Yowes

Ceremony of Carols, A

Charm of Lullabies, A

Children's Crusade

Choral Dances from Gloriana

Chorale On An Old French Carol

Come You Not From Newcastle?

Concerto for piano and orchestra

Violin Concerto

Corpus Christi Carol

Curlew River

Dafydd y Garreg Wen

Dear Harp of my Country

Death in Venice

Death in Venice : Suite

Deus in adjutorium meum

Diversions for piano (left-hand) and orchestra

Early One Morning

Eho! Eho!

Elegy

Evening, Morning, Night

False Knight Upon the Road, The

Fancie

Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury

Festival Te Deum

Fileuse

Fish in the Unruffled Lakes

Five Walztes (Waltzes)

Foggy Foggy Dew,The

Folksong Arrangements : 5 volumes

Four Burns Songs

Four Sea Interludes

Friday Afternoons

Gemini Variations

Gloriana

Go Play, Boy, Play

Golden Vanity, The

Holiday Diary

Holly and the Ivy, The

Holy Sonnets of John Donne, The

How Sweet The Answer

Hymn Of St. Columba, A

Hymn To St. Cecilia

Hymn To St. Peter

Hymn To The Virgin

I Was Lonely And Forlorn

I Will Give My Love An Apple

Il est quelqu'un sur terre

Illuminations, Les

Introduction and Rondo Alla Burlesca

Jesus, As Thou Art Our Saviour

Jubilate Deo

King Herod and the Cock

Lachrymae

Last Rose of Summer, The

Lemady

Let The Florid Music Praise

Lincolnshire Poacher, The

Little Sir William

Little Sweep, The

Lord! I Married me a Wife

Master Kilby

Matinees musicales

May

Mazurka elegiaca

Men Of Goodwill

Midsummer Night's Dream, A

Miller of Dee, The

Minstrel Boy, The

Missa Brevis

Mont Juic

National Anthem, The

Night Piece

Nocturnal after John Dowland

Nocturne

Noel Passee, La

Now thro' Night's Caressing Grip

Noye's Fludde

O Can Ye Sew Cushions?

O The Sight Entrancing

O Waly, Waly

Occasional Overture

Oft in the Stilly Night

Old Abram Brown

Oliver Cromwell

On This Island

Our Hunting Fathers

Owen Wingrave

Oxen, The

Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan : Overture

Peter Grimes

Phaedra

Phantasy

Phantasy Quartet

Plough Boy, The

Poet's Echo, The

Prelude and Dances from Prince of the Pagodas

Prelude and Fugue

Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria

Prince of the Pagodas, The

Prodigal Son, The

Psalm 150

Quand j'etais chez mon pere

Quartettino

Quatre Chansons Francaises

Rape of Lucretia, The

Rejoice in the Lamb

Reveille

Rich and Rare

Ride, The

Roi s'en va-t'en chasse, Le

Russian Funeral

Sacred And Profane

Sail On, Sail On

Sailor Boy

Saint Nicolas

Salley Gardens, The

Sally in Our Alley

Scherzo

Scottish Ballad

Second Lute Song

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Seven Sonnets Of Michelangelo

Shepherd's Carol, A

She's Like a Swallow

Ship of Rio, The

Shooting Of His Dear

Simple Symphony, A

Sinfonia da requiem

Sinfonietta

Six Holderlin Fragments

Six Metamorphoses After Ovid

Soirees musicales

Soldier and the Sailor, The

Sonata for cello and piano

Sonatina romantica

Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake

Songs From The Chinese

Spring Symphony

String Quartet no. 1

String Quartet no. 2

String Quartet no. 3

Suite for cello no. 1

Suite for cello no. 2

Suite for cello no. 3

Suite for harp

Suite for violin and piano

Suite on English Folk Tunes

Sweet Polly Oliver

Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sung

Sycamore Tree, The

Symphonic Suite from Gloriana

Symphony for cello and orchestra

Te Deum

Temporal Variations

There's none to Soothe

Three Character Pieces

Three Divertimenti

Three Two-Part Songs

Tit For Tat

Tom Bowling

Trees They Grow So High, The

Turn of the Screw, The

Twelve Apostles, The

Twelve Variations On A Theme

Mother Comfort

Two Insect Pieces

Two Lullabies

Two Part-Songs

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Voici le printemps

Voices for Today

War Requiem

Wealden Trio, A

Wedding Anthem, A

Welcome Ode

Who Are These Children?

Winter Words

Young Apollo

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Johnson Over Jordan

Opera Arias

### Curtain Up: Peter Grimes

Movement for clarinet and orchestra

Rescue Of Penelope, The

Christ's Nativity

Five Flower Songs

Opera Arias

Irish Reel

Three Songs

Temporal Variations

Peter Grimes

Choral Dances from Gloriana

New Year Carol, A

Heart Of The Matter, The

String Quartet

Passacaglia from Peter Grimes

If It's Ever Spring Again

Children And Sir Nameless, The

Crocodile, The

Greensleeves

I Wonder As I Wander

Pray Goody

Soldier Won't You Marry Me

Holly And The Ivy, The

Deaf Woman's Courtship, The

Bonny At Morn

Stream In The Valley, The

[Unidentified folksong setting]

Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn

Bitter Withy, The

Belle est au jardin d'amour, La

Come You Not From Newcastle?

Eho! Eho!

Fileuse

Bonny Earl O'Moray, The

Little Sir William

O Can Ye Sew Cushions?

O Waly, Waly

Oliver Cromwell

Plough Boy, The

Quand j'etais chez mon pere

Roi s'en va-t'en chasse, Le

Salley Gardens, The

salley z

Poison Tree, A

When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection

Not Even Summer Yet

Red Cockatoo, The

Wild With Passion

If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart

Cradle Song

Birthday Song for Erwin

Um Mitternacht

Who Are These Children?

Two Portraits

Beggar's Opera, The

To lie flat on the back

Night covers up the rigid land

Sun shines down, The

Fish in the unruffled lakes

What's in your mind?

Underneath the abject willow

We are the darkness in the heat of the day

Reflection

Nocturne

Billy Budd

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Five songs from Harmonia Sacra

God Save the Queen

Double Concerto

String Quartet in F

heather harper

Noel passee, La

Underneath the Abject Willow

I Lov'd a Lass

Lift Boy

Tragic Story, A

A.M.D.G

Variations on an Elizabethan Theme

Sonata for Cello in C

Three Realizations of Henry Purcell

Playful Pizzicato

Sentimental Saraband

Rosa Mystica

Praise We Great Men

Dawie's Devotion

Tradition

Gully, The

Suite of Songs from 'Orpheus Brittanicus'

Die Forelle

Fruhlingsnacht

Rossini Suite

Love From a Stranger

What the Wild Flowers Tell Me

Company of Heaven, The

Little Idyll, A

Night Mail

Tocher, The

King's Stamp, The

Negros

Way to the Sea, The

Telegrams

Peace of Britain

Men Behind the Meters

Coal Face

When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection

### Performing Billy Budd

Owen Wingrave

Performing Britten

Instrumentation

Piano

Additional Information

text:H.Belloc. Ded:'for my mother'.

Details

Revised version 1934

Year

Tuesday, January 1, 1929 - 12:00

Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Minutes

Recordings

Performers

Frederick Harvey (bar), Gerald Moore (pf)

Recording format id

Record company

EMI

Performers

Andrew Wicks (treble), John Birch (pf)

Recording format id

Record company

ABB