Author: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
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- A solemn music II (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - Niccolò Castiglioni
- A Song of Spiritual Creatures (Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth) (from Paradise Lost) - Matthew King FRI
- At a solemn musick (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - Emma Lou Diemer
- At a solemn music (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy)
- A vak szonettje (Tünődöm olykor, mért szállt rám homály) GER ITA
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy - Niccolò Castiglioni (A solemn music II)
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy - Emma Lou Diemer (At a solemn musick)
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy (At a solemn music)
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Blest pair of sirens)
- Blest pair of sirens (Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy) - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir
- By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim - Thomas Augustine Arne (By dimpled brook)
- By dimpled brook (By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim) - Thomas Augustine Arne
- By the gaily circling glass (By the gaily circling glass) - Thomas Augustine Arne
- By the gaily circling glass - Thomas Augustine Arne (By the gaily circling glass)
- Comus () (from Comus) - (Thomas) Gerard Victory [x]
- Echo (Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen) (from Comus)
- Epilogue (Ring out, ye crystal spheres) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Evening (Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray) (from Paradise Lost) - Charles Edward Ives FRI GER
- For what is glory but the blaze of fame (from Paradise Regained)
- Hail! bounteous May (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - Michael (Dewar) Head
- Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee (L'Allegro)
- Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee - Frank La Forge (Pastorale)
- Hence, loathed Melancholy (L'Allegro)
- Hence vain deluding Joys
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth - Gerald Finzi (How soon hath Time)
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth (Sonnet VII)
- How soon hath Time (How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth) - Gerald Finzi
- Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (It was the Winter wild)
- Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime (from Paradise Lost) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Monologue: Is this the region)
- It was the Winter wild (Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity)
- It was the Winter wild - George Frederick McKay (On the morning of Christ's nativity)
- It was the Winter wild - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Song: It was the winter wild)
- L'Allegro (Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee)
- L'Allegro (Hence, loathed Melancholy)
- Me miserable! which way shall I flie (from Paradise Lost) FRI - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Satan's monologue: Me miserable)
- Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth (from Paradise Lost) FRI - Matthew King (A Song of Spiritual Creatures)
- Monologue: Is this the region (Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime) (from Paradise Lost) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Nativity morn (This is the month, and this the happy morn) - John La Montaine
- Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray (from Paradise Lost) FRI GER - Charles Edward Ives (Evening)
- Now Phoebus sinketh in the west (The star that bids the shepherd fold) - Thomas Augustine Arne
- Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger - Michael (Dewar) Head (Hail! bounteous May)
- Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger - Ross Lee Finney (On May morning)
- Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger (Song on May Morning)
- Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The morning star)
- On his blindness (When I consider how my light is spent) - Stephen Bick GER HUN ITA
- On May morning (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - Ross Lee Finney
- On the morning of Christ's nativity (It was the Winter wild) - George Frederick McKay
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646 (When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never)
- Pastorale (Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee) - Frank La Forge
- Princes! potentates! warriors (... Princes, Potentates) (from Paradise Lost) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir FRI
- ... Princes, Potentates (from Paradise Lost) FRI - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Princes! potentates! warriors)
- Pyrrha (What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors) - Miriam Gideon FRE ITA POL
- Ring out, ye crystal spheres - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Epilogue)
- Sabrina Fair (Sabrina Fair) (from Comus) - Henry Lawes
- Sabrina Fair (from Comus) - Henry Lawes (Sabrina Fair)
- Satan's monologue: Me miserable (Me miserable! which way shall I flie) (from Paradise Lost) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir FRI
- So at length the spirit of man will reach out, and will reach out far - Alan Dudley Bush (So at length the spirit of man)
- So at length the spirit of man (So at length the spirit of man will reach out, and will reach out far) - Alan Dudley Bush
- Song from Milton's Comus (Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen) (from Comus) - Otto Dresel
- Song: It was the winter wild (It was the Winter wild) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Song on May Morning (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger)
- Sonnet VII (How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth)
- Sonnet XIX (When I consider how my light is spent) GER HUN ITA
- Sonnet (When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never) - Leslie Crabtree
- Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen (from Comus) (Echo)
- Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen (from Comus) - Otto Dresel (Song from Milton's Comus)
- The morning star (Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
- The star that bids the shepherd fold - Thomas Augustine Arne (Now Phoebus sinketh in the west)
- The Star that bids the Shepherd fold (from Comus)
- This is the month, and this the happy morn - John La Montaine (Nativity morn)
- To Pyrrha (What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors) FRE ITA POL
- Tünődöm olykor, mért szállt rám homály GER ITA (A vak szonettje)
- What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors FRE ITA POL - Miriam Gideon (Pyrrha)
- What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors FRE ITA POL (To Pyrrha)
- When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never (On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased Dec. 16, 1646)
- When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never - Leslie Crabtree (Sonnet)
- When I consider how my life is spent (When I consider how my light is spent) - Gerald Finzi GER HUN ITA
- When I consider how my light is spent GER HUN ITA - Stephen Bick (On his blindness)
- When I consider how my light is spent GER HUN ITA (Sonnet XIX)
- When I consider how my light is spent GER HUN ITA - Gerald Finzi (When I consider how my life is spent)
Last update: 2020-10-14 12:27:17