Benjamin Britten

Britten: A Charm of lullabies, for mezzo-soprano and piano, Op 41

Night night Mummy

Britten: Canticle II - Abraham and Isaac for alto, tenor and piano, Op.51

A soulful song of sacrifice

Composer of the Week - Britten

Donald Macleod explores the music of Benjamin Britten's formative years

Britten: Canticle III - Still falls the rain for tenor, horn and piano, Op 55

Blitz! - and the rain is lead

Britten: Canticle V - The death of St Narcissus for tenor and harp, Op 89

Britten mourns one death and anticipates his own

BBC Proms - Britten 100

Martin Handley talks to Paul Kildea about Britten and his place in 20th-Century music

Britten: Folksong arrangements, vol 1 (The Ash Grove)

Memories of a missing lover in Wales of yesteryear

Britten: Four Sea interludes from Peter Grimes

Sea sounds wash into this grim tale of violence and destruction

BBC Proms Music Guide - Britten's Peter Grimes

Tom Service on Britten's opera Peter Grimes

Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op 36

An anniversary tribute to a fellow musician

Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

"My subject is War, and the pity of War"

Britten: Winter words, Op 52

Poetry in motion