1092BTC942942BBM/BTCquandjetaisQuand j'etais chez mon pere (Heigh ho! heigh hi!) [FSA 2/8, France]For high or medium voice and piano1Folk songDec 19421092Traditional (set in French)2.0'To my young friends, Arnold and Humphrey Gyde'

Sons of the singer Sophie Wyss. Dedicatees of the published volume.

Britten conceived Volume 2 of his folksongs as a set and, unusually, added a date to the composition draft.

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Copyright 1946 Boosey & Hawkes. Reproduced with permission.

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Copyright 1946 Boosey & Hawkes. Reproduced with permission.

1092194019421200000007091901091BTC941941BBM/BTCehoehoEho! Eho! [FSA 2/7, France]For high or medium voice and piano1Folk songDec 19421091Traditional (set in French)4.0'To my young friends, Arnold and Humphrey Gyde'

Britten conceived Volume 2 of his folksongs as a set and, unusually, added a date to the composition draft.

001942Dec 1942895BTC943943BBM/BTCbritaintoamerica3Britain to America, Series II no 13: Where do we go from here?Radio score1Incidental musicpre 3 Jan 19431093Alto voice - fl (=picc), ob, 2 cl (B flat and A), alto sax in E flat, bn - 2 hn in F, 2 tpt in B flat, trbn, bass trbn - timp, perc (xyl, susp cymb, cymb, sd, bd, gong) - harp - str (vn, va, vc, db)(of programme and vocal number) Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Music written for episode no 13 of the second series of programmes about Britain and the British, made at the request of NBC, New York.

001943pre 3 Jan 19431181BTC942.19421BBM/quandjetais_orchQuand j'etais chez mon pere [orchestral version]For baritone and orchestra1Folk songWith orchestraca. 1945-461506Fl, picc, 2 ob, 2 cl in A, 2 bn - 2 hn, 2 tpt in C - timp, perc (sd) - strTraditional

One of five arrangements of the French folk songs that Britten made specifically for the baritone Martial Singher. It is in the same key as the high-voice original.

The five orchestral arrangements were originally performed in the following order:

1 Fileuse, 2 Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse, 3 La belle est au jardin d'amour, 4 Eho! Eho! and 5 Quand j'étais chez mon père.

001945ca. 1945-46