A Charm of Lullabies op. 41 布瑞頓 總譜 博浩版

搖籃曲的魅力》寫於 1947 年 12 月，是為女中音南茜-埃文斯（Nancy Evans）而作。埃文斯的丈夫埃裡克-克羅齊爾（Eric Crozier）不久前剛剛為《阿爾伯特-赫林》（Albert Herring）創作了劇本，布裡頓希望為這位女歌手的獨奏會節目提供一部作品，並在文本的選擇上給予了幫助。這部作品彙集了不同的文本，以夜晚和睡眠為主題，是布裡頓歌曲迴圈中最溫馨、最簡單的作品之一。"霍克斯袖珍樂譜系列 "中的這一新編曲與原鋼琴版有多處不同，特別是對其進行了擴充，使其具有管弦樂歌曲迴圈所需的額外維度，並將前三首歌曲、第四首歌曲和第五首歌曲合併，實際上將迴圈分為兩個部分"

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
校訂者: Matthews, Colin
樂器: mezzo-soprano and orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
A Cradle Song (Blake) - The Highland Balou (Burns) - Sephestia's Lullaby (Greene) - A Charm (Randolph) - The Nurse's Song (Philip)

原文簡介:
2013 marks Brittens centenary making this year an important one for his music'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Britten was keen to provide the singer with a work for her recital programmes, and was helped in the choice of texts by Evans’ husband Eric Crozier, who had recently written the libretto for Albert Herring. The work brings together an anthology of diverse texts unified by the themes of night and sleep and is one of the most welcoming and uncomplicated of Britten’s song-cycles.This new arrangement presented in the Hawkes Pocket Score Series differs from the original piano version in several respects, in particular by expanding it to give it the extra dimension needed for an orchestral song-cycle, and by joining the first three songs, and the fourth and fifth, in effect presenting the cycle in two parts.