Our Hunting Fathers Op.8

Britten once referred to this work as his 'real Opus 1', as the themes in the work are themes from his childhood. At school, he was expelled for a 'shocking' essay he had written, in which he had opposed the practice of bloodsports, and suggested that the brutal effect of them was in fact a cause of war. This edition is for High Voice with a Piano reduction of the original Orchestral score.