BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

LIST OF RECORDINGS

by David Barker and Rob Barnett

Works A to C

Works D to K

Works L to R

Works S to Z

 This is not intended to be a complete list, but is an attempt to cover all significant recordings of the digital era and re-releases from LP and video. It represents an updated, extended and reformatted version of a list published on Musicweb by Rob Barnett in 1998. The ubiquity of re-releases, and the lack of information about recording dates makes it impossible to keep track of which recording has been released before. Transient availability is also a plague - Amazon tends to show most of that has been released, and implies that it may still be available even if it has been deleted from the company's catalogue long ago.

So we have done our best. Perhaps not all re-releases are covered, and in some instances, a reader may know that what is described as a re-release is in fact a different performance. Apologies in advance! Certainly sampler discs and themed releases (eg Christmas, Best of English Music) "best of"s do not feature on this discography unless the recording is not available on another disc.

Note - with the demise of MDT which provided a new release list by composer, this discography will only be updated when a britren work is reviewed on this site (March 2019).

A Advance Democracy Albert Herring Alla Marcia Alpine Suite A.M.D.G. An American Overture Antiphon Arrangements Around The Village Green The Ascent of F6	B Ballad Of Heroes The Ballad Of Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard Billy Budd The Birds A Birthday Hansel A Boy Was Born The Building Of The House The Burning Fiery Furnace Four Burns Songs	C Cabaret Songs Canadian Carnival Cantata Academica Cantata Misericordium Canticle 1 Canticle 2 Canticle 3 Canticle 4 Canticle 5 Cello Sonata Cello Suite No. 1 Cello Suite No. 2 Cello Suite No. 3 Cello Symphony A Ceremony Of Carols Chansons Françaises Three Character Pieces A Charm Of Lullabies Children's Crusade Chorale After An Old French Carol Christ's Nativity Clarinet Concerto movement Coal Face Company of Heaven Curlew River
D E Death In Venice Death In Venice: Suite Deus In Adjutorum Meum Diversions For Piano And Orchestra Three Divertimenti Double Concerto for Violin & Viola The Eagle Has Two Heads: Fanfare Three Early Songs Elegy For Solo Viola Elegy for strings	F G Fancie Fanfare For St Edmondsbury Festival Te Deum Five Flower Songs Folksong Arrangements Fragment for strings Friday Afternoons Gemini Variations Gloriana Gloriana - Choral Dances Gloriana - Concert Suite The Golden Vanity	H I J K Two Hardy Songs The Heart Of The Matter Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Holiday Diary Holy Sonnets Of John Donne A Hymn Of St Columba Hymn To St Cecilia Hymn To St Peter A Hymn To The Virgin Two Insect Pieces The Instruments Of The Orchestra Introduction And Rondo Alla Burlesca Johnson Over Jordan Suite Jubilate Deo in C Major Jubilate Deo in E Flat Major King Arthur Suite The King's Stamp
L M Lachrymae (va, pf) Lachrymae (va, str) Les Illuminations A Little Idyll The Little Sweep Love From A Stranger Two Lullabies For Two Pianos Matinee Musicales Mazurka Elegiaca In Memoriam Dennis Brain Men Behind The Meters Men Of Goodwill Six Metamorphoses After Ovid A Midsummer Night's Dream Missa Brevis Mont Juic Movement For Clarinet And Orchestra Movement For Wind Sextet	N O Negroes A New Year’s Carol Night Mail Night Piece Nocturnal After John Dowland Nocturne Notturno Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Noye's Fludde Occasional Overture On This Island On The Frontier Our Hunting Fathers Owen Wingrave The Oxen	P Paul Bunyan Peace of Britain Peter Grimes Peter Grimes - Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia Phaedra Phantasy Quartet Phantasy Quintet In F Minor Piano Concerto Two Pieces for piano The Poet's Echo Two Portraits Praise We Great Men Prelude And Fugue For 18 Strings Prelude And Fugue On A Theme Of Vittoria Prince Of The Pagodas Prince Of The Pagodas - Suite The Prodigal Son Psalm 150
Q R Quartettino The Rape Of Lucretia Realizations (Purcell etc) Reflection For Viola & Piano Rejoice In The Lamb Rescue Of Penelope Reveille Rhapsody Rondo Concertante Rossini Suite Russian Funeral	S Sacred And Profane Saint Nicolas Scottish Ballad Serenade For Tenor Horn & Strings A Shepherds Carol Simple Symphony Sinfonia Da Requiem Sinfonietta Soirees Musicales Sonatina Romantica Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake Songs From The Chinese Songs (miscellaneous) Seven Sonnets Of Michelangelo Spring Symphony Stratton String Quartet In D Major String Quartet In F Major String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No. 3 Suite For Harp Suite for Violin & Piano Suite On English Folk Tunes Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sang The Sword In The Stone - Concert Suite The Sycamore Tree	T U V Te Deum Telegrams Tema Sacher Temporal Variations They Walk Alone This Way To The Tomb Tit For Tat The Turn Of The Screw The Twelve Apostles Three Two Part Songs Variations on a Christmas Carol Twelve Variations For Piano (1930) Variations for Piano (1965) Variations On An Elizabethan Theme Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge Venite Exult Emus Village Organist's Piece Violin Concerto Voluntary on Tallis 'Lamentation'
W Y Five Walztes War Requiem Way To The Sea A Wealden Trio A Wedding Anthem Welcome Ode Who Are These Children? Winter Words The World Of The Spirit Young Apollo Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra