Britten, Benjamin - Six Metamorphoses after Ovid op. 49

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid op. 49 op. 49

 

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 7 & 8)
The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer syllabus 2006 (grade 8)

Instrumentation: Oboe
Binding: Saddle stitching
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
ISMN: M-060-01527-4
ISBN: 979-0-060-01527-4

Contents

• Pan (who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved)
• Phaeton (who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt)
• Niobe (who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain)
• Bacchus (at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling womens tattling tongues and shouting out of boys)
• Narcissus (who fell in love with his own image and became a flower)
• Arethusa (who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river got, was turned into a fountain)