Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Ernest J Moeran (1894-1950) was an English composer who followed the tradition of R. Vaughan Williams and John Ireland by collecting preserving and using many folk songs mainly from Norfolk Suffolk and Ireland.First published in 1924 Two Songs are both set for High Voice with Piano accompaniment. The first The Bean-Flower is a setting of a poem by Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) which recallsthe scent of the Hawthorn which made the writer fall in love. The second is called Impromptu In March and is a setting of a poem by Doreen A. E. Wallace (1897-1989) a more cheery affair which looks forward tothe coming of Spring.

Five Songs for High Voice and Piano. Premiered at the Canterbury Festival by Lorna Anderson and Malcolm Martineau September 1987.

For High Voice and Piano. Text: WH Auden. Commissioned by and dedicated to Alice Esty.

A Song-Cycle to poems by Ted Hughes for High Voice and Piano. Premiered by Jane Manning and Susan Bradshaw.

A set of three songs by Peter Warlock for High Voice with Piano accompaniment which were first published in 1923.

Sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano composed over a fifteen-year period from 1989 to 2004 with texts in English French German and translations from German Portuguese and Russian. Texts from theBible Shakespeare Mozart Rimbaud Fernando Pessoa and Paul Celan and by living writers Roger Pulvers Kevin Power Victoria Hardie and Michael Hastings. While the original text-free version of Life's Chaos appeared aspart of the musical accompaniment to Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera there are songs from three of his film scores: The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover Prospero's Books and The Diary OfAnne Frank and from four song cycles: L'Orgie Parisienne Six Celan Songs Cycle of Disquietude and Acts Of Beauty. There are arias from two stage operas Facing Goya and Man and Boy:Dada and a TV opera Letters Riddles and Writs.

Version for Voice and Piano. For rehearsal purposes only. Text: translated by Christopher Logue in the English version. Premiered by Morag Noble and members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

With words by George Herbert this was originally written for the NMC Songbook in 2008.