On This Island
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
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
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
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
1
VV
1

Additional Information

text:W.H.Auden. Ded:C.Isherwood. fp:S.Wyss, composer 19.11.1937. 1.Let theflorid music; 2.Now the leaves are falling; 3.Seascape; 4.Nocturne; 5.As it is.

Details

Cycle of 5 songs
Year
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Minutes
13

Recordings

Performers
Tear/ Ledger
Recording format id
4
Record company
HMV
Performers
Pears/ Britten
Recording format id
4
Record company
BBC
Date recorded
09/1997
Performers
Philip Langridge (ten), Steuart Bedford (pf)
Recording format id
2
Venue
St Silas Church, Chalk Farm, London
Date recorded
22.06.2006
Performers
Robert Murray (ten), Christopher Glynn (pf)
Recording format id
2
Record company
BBC
Venue
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh