Texts by O. Wilde set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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A fair slim boy not made for this world’s pain - G. Medlock (Wasted days)
Against these turbid turquoise skies - G. Bachlund, G. Gover, C. Griffes, J. Komulainen (Les Ballons)
Agyaglábon pihen e nagy-nagy ország (Theoretikos) -
A kékes-arany éji Themze (Impression du matin) -
A ligeten madár dalol (Endymion) -
A liliomok szórják dús aranyjuk (Le jardin) -
A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain GER GER - C. Haubiel (Madonna mia)
An omnibus across the bridge HUN - C. Blyton, C. Griffes (Symphony in yellow)
A ring of gold and a milk-white dove GER - G. Bachlund, D. Healey (Chanson)
As oftentimes the too resplendent sun - M. Linton (Silentium Amoris)
A téli ég fehér ködén (La mer) -
A tompa türkiszkék egen (Les ballons) -
At rest (Tread lightly, she is near) - H. Jervis-Read GER GER RUS
Ave Maria Gratia Plena (Was this His coming! I had hoped to see) - D. Healey, M. Linton
A white mist drifts across the shrouds HUN - M. Al-Raad, C. Griffes, H. Jervis-Read, D. Morris (La Mer)
Az omnibusz a hidra bú (Sárga szimfónia) -
Ballad of the Greek Sea (The western wind is blowing fair) - H. Jervis-Read
Beauty's Taste () - M. Linton [x]
By the Arno (The oleander on the wall) - H. Muldrow
Canzonet (I have no store) - R. Farley
Chanson (A ring of gold and a milk-white dove) - G. Bachlund, D. Healey GER
Chanson () - A. Schuyer (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) [x]
Chuttjam pozhivi tut nemaє = Чуттям поживи тут немає GER RUS - B. Lyatoshynsky *
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand GER - C. Haubiel (E tenebris)
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure) - E. Diemer
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure - E. Diemer, F. Silverman (Roses And Rue (To L. L.))
Dear Heart I think the young impassioned priest - M. Linton (Quia Multum Amavi)
De profundis (People point to Reading Gaol and say) - F. Rzewski
Désespoir (The seasons send their ruin as they go) - G. Medlock
Des Mondes Flucht (Die Sinne wiegt ein Friedenshauch) - A. Schuyer UKR RUS (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Die See liegt grau und bäumt sich matt - A. Schuyer (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Die See liegt grau (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Die Sinne wiegt ein Friedenshauch UKR RUS - A. Schuyer (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Does it all seem a dream, Harry? Ah! What is not a dream? - H. Muldrow
Does it all seem a Dream? (Does it all seem a dream, Harry? Ah! What is not a dream?) - H. Muldrow
Dorian Gray () (from Dorian Gray) - H. Kox [x] ⊗
Early Spring (The little white clouds are racing over the sky) - K. Schindler
Easter Day (The silver trumpets rang across the Dome) - M. Linton, D. Morgan
Ein Lilienmädchen, fremd im Erdenleben FRE - E. Schulhoff (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Endymion (A ligeten madár dalol)
Endymion (The apple trees are hung with gold) - J. Horovitz, E. McKenzie, C. Scott, C. Seeger HUN
Epitaph (Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault) - M. Linton
E Tenebris (Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand) - C. Haubiel GER
E Tenebris (Komm, Christus, hilf mir! reich mir deine Hand!) - E. Schulhoff FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes (from Lady Windermere's Fan) FRE
From Spring Days to Winter (In the glad springtime when leaves were green) - D. Healey, E. McKenzie
From Springtime to Winter (In the glad springtime when leaves were green) - H. Jervis-Read
Glukupikros Eros (Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault)
Hazel eyes () - M. Lowther [x]
Heavenly ladders (O well for him who lives at ease) - W. Schaeffer
He did not wear his scarlet coat (The Ballad of Reading Gaol (first version)) - G. Medlock
He did not wear his scarlet coat (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version)) DUT
Hélas! (To drift with every passion till my soul)
Helas (To drift with every passion till my soul) - G. Medlock, T. Pasatieri
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys - E. Fine, E. McKenzie, B. Rogers (In the Gold Room: a Harmony)
Her Voice (The wild bee reels from bough to bough) - J. Carpenter
Holy Week at Genoa (I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat) - R. Pleskow
How vain and dull this common world must seem - M. Linton (Phedre)
I can write no stately proem (To My Wife With a Copy of My Poems) - G. Sivak
Idyll (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - F. Scott
I have no store - R. Farley (Canzonet)
I know not whether Laws be right (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version)) - R. Beckett
Impression de Matin (The Thames nocturne of blue and gold) HUN
Impression du matin (A kékes-arany éji Themze)
Impression du matin (The Thames nocturne of blue and gold) - M. Easton, C. Griffes HUN
Impressions [song cycle] () - R. D'Haene [x]
In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks - G. Bantock (The Sphinx)
In Debtors' Yard the stones are hard (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version))
In Reading gaol by Reading town (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version)) GER
In the Forest (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - G. Bachlund, M. Easton, I. Freed, M. Linton, D. Morgan, E. Tilden, C. Wong, M. Wyble
In the glad springtime when leaves were green - D. Healey, H. Jervis-Read, E. McKenzie (From Spring Days to Winter)
In the Gold Room: a Harmony (Her ivory hands on the ivory keys)
In the Gold Room (Her ivory hands on the ivory keys) - E. Fine, E. McKenzie, B. Rogers
I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned - G. Medlock (Sonnet on approaching Italy)
Ischeznovenije luny = Исчезновение луны ( = ) - B. Lyatoshynsky GER UKR [x]
I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat - R. Pleskow, E. Sharpe (Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa)
Kerker-Ballade () - H. Zagwijn (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) [x]
Komm, Christus, hilf mir! reich mir deine Hand! FRE - E. Schulhoff (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente (My limbs are wasted with a flame) - M. Al-Raad, H. Muldrow
La Fuite de la Lune (To outer senses there is peace) - E. Belchamber, E. Boer, R. Brooks, C. Deis, C. Griffes, M. Linton, D. Morris, N. Slonimsky GER UKR RUS
La mer (A téli ég fehér ködén)
La Mer (A white mist drifts across the shrouds) - M. Al-Raad, C. Griffes, D. Morris HUN
Le Jardin Des Tuileries (This winter air is keen and cold) - M. Linton
Le jardin (A liliomok szórják dús aranyjuk)
Le jardin (The lily's withered chalice falls) - C. Griffes, D. Healey, D. Morris HUN
Le panneau (Ott, ahol árnyas a csalit)
Le Panneau (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade) - G. Bachlund, G. Gover, J. Komulainen HUN
Le Réveillon (The sky is laced with fitful red) - E. Boer, C. Griffes, D. Morris HUN
Le réveillon (Vörös az égen a szegély)
Les Ballons (Against these turbid turquoise skies) - G. Bachlund, G. Gover, C. Griffes, J. Komulainen
Les ballons (A tompa türkiszkék egen)
Les Silhouettes (Die See liegt grau und bäumt sich matt) - A. Schuyer (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Les Silhouettes (The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray) - R. Brooks, J. Carpenter, D. Morris GER
L'Expérience, c'est le nom que chacun donne à ses erreurs - D. Gougeon
L'Expérience (L'Expérience, c'est le nom que chacun donne à ses erreurs) - D. Gougeon
Loved for Evermore (The western wind is blowing fair) - E. Christie
Madonna Mia (A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain) - C. Haubiel GER GER
Madonna mia (Ein Lilienmädchen, fremd im Erdenleben) - E. Schulhoff FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
Madonna mia () - A. Schuyer (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) [x]
Magdalen Walks (The little white clouds are racing over the sky) - M. Easton, H. Frewen, D. Healey
My Faun (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - M. Bauer
My limbs are wasted with a flame - M. Al-Raad, H. Muldrow (La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente)
My Voice (Within the restless, hurried, modern world) - M. Easton, J. Goertzen, D. Morgan
Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring - D. Ruyneman, M. Williamson (Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel)
Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes - C. Berg (Sonnet to Liberty)
O beautiful star with the crimson mouth! (from Shakespearean Show Book) - M. Al-Raad, M. Baron, L. Kellie, B. Thomson (Under the Balcony)
O Beautiful Star (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - M. Baron
Oh! Beautiful Star (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - L. Kellie
Oh! beautiful (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - B. Thomson
O Singer of Persephone! - D. Healey, M. Linton, R. Pleskow, J. Raynor (Theocritus)
Ott, ahol árnyas a csalit (Le panneau) -
Out of the mid-wood's twilight - G. Bachlund, M. Bauer, E. Diemer, M. Easton, I. Freed, M. Linton, D. Morgan, F. Scott, E. Tilden, C. Wong, M. Wyble (In the forest)
Out of the mid-wood's twilight (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - E. Diemer
O well for him who lives at ease - M. Linton, W. Schaeffer (Tristitiæ)
People point to Reading Gaol and say - F. Rzewski (De Profundis)
Phedre (How vain and dull this common world must seem) - M. Linton
Quia Multum Amavi (Dear Heart I think the young impassioned priest) - M. Linton
Reading Gaol (I know not whether Laws be right) (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version)) - R. Beckett
Requiescat (Still, daß es sie nicht stört) - E. Schulhoff FRE RUS
Requiescat = Requiescat (Stupaj legko: ved' obitajet = Ступай легко: ведь обитает) - A. Kreyn GER GER
Requiescat (Tread lightly, she is near) - G. Bachlund, E. Barnum, R. Berger, H. Boatwright, C. Braun, G. Butterworth, K. Clarke, H. Clough-Leighter, G. Cory, M. Emery, F. Farkas, S. Finegan, A. van Haren, C. Haubiel, R. Jones, M. Linton, O. Luening, R. Malipiero, G. McKay, G. Medlock, D. Morgan, T. Pasatieri, N. Rorem, J. Rutherford, E. Sharpe, D. Van Vactor, R. Wilding-White, G. Young GER GER RUS
Rome Unvisited (The corn has turned from grey to red) - R. Pleskow
Roses And Rue (To L. L.) (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure)
Ruhe in Frieden (Schreit’ sachte, hier ruht sie) - G. Bachlund RUS
San Miniato (See, I have climbed the mountain side) - M. Al-Raad, D. Morgan
Santa Decca (The Gods are dead: no longer do we bring) (from Wind Flowers) - M. Linton
Sárga szimfónia (Az omnibusz a hidra bú)
Schreit’ sachte, hier ruht sie RUS - G. Bachlund
See, I have climbed the mountain side - M. Al-Raad, D. Morgan (San Miniato)
Serenade (For Music) (The western wind is blowing fair)
Seven stars in the still water - M. Al-Raad, S. Cleary (The Dole Of The King's Daughter)
Silentium Amoris (As oftentimes the too resplendent sun) - M. Linton
Silhouettes (The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray) - G. Nevin, N. Slonimsky GER
Six weeks the guardsman walked the yard (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version))
Sonnet on approaching Italy (I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned) - G. Medlock
Sonnet 'On hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel' (Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring) - D. Ruyneman
Sonnet to Liberty (Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes) - C. Berg
Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa (I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat)
Sonnet (Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring) - M. Williamson
Still, daß es sie nicht stört FRE RUS - E. Schulhoff (Requiescat)
Still, daß sie es nicht hört FRE RUS (Requiescat) - E. Schulhoff
Stupaj legko: ved' obitajet = Ступай легко: ведь обитает GER GER - A. Kreyn (Requiescat)
Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault - M. Linton (Glukupikros Eros)
Symphony in yellow (An omnibus across the bridge) - C. Blyton, C. Griffes HUN
Taedium Vitae (To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear) - M. Linton
The apple trees are hung with gold HUN - J. Horovitz, E. McKenzie, C. Scott, C. Seeger (Endymion)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (first version) (He did not wear his scarlet coat)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Yet each man kills the thing he loves) - G. Medlock
The corn has turned from grey to red - R. Pleskow (Rome Unvisited)
The Dole of the King’s Daughter (Seven stars in the still water) - M. Al-Raad, S. Cleary
The Flight of the Moon (To outer senses there is peace) - G. Nevin, A. Snyder GER UKR RUS
The Garden (The lily's withered chalice falls) - H. Jervis-Read HUN
The Gods are dead: no longer do we bring (from Wind Flowers) - M. Linton (Santa Decca)
The Harlot's House (We caught the tread of dancing feet) - G. Bachlund, E. Boer, T. Pasatieri, D. Swann
The lily's withered chalice falls HUN - C. Griffes, D. Healey, H. Jervis-Read, D. Morris (Le Jardin)
The little white clouds are racing over the sky - M. Easton, H. Frewen, D. Healey, K. Schindler (Magdalen Walks)
The Moon (To outer senses there is peace) - H. Jervis-Read GER UKR RUS
The New Remorse (The sin was mine; I did not understand) - M. Al-Raad, J. Biggs, G. Medlock
Theocritus (A Vilanelle) (O Singer of Persephone!) - J. Raynor
Theocritus – A Villanelle (O Singer of Persephone!) - R. Pleskow
Theocritus (O Singer of Persephone!) - D. Healey, M. Linton
The oleander on the wall - H. Muldrow (By the Arno)
Theoretikos (Agyaglábon pihen e nagy-nagy ország)
Theoretikos (This mighty empire hath but feet of clay) - C. Berg HUN
There is no chapel on the day (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version))
The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray GER - R. Brooks, J. Carpenter, H. Jervis-Read, D. Morris, G. Nevin, N. Slonimsky (Les Silhouettes)
The seasons send their ruin as they go - G. Medlock (Désespoir)
The Sea (A white mist drifts across the shrouds) - H. Jervis-Read HUN
The Silent Spring () - M. Linton [x]
The Silhouettes (The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray) - H. Jervis-Read GER
The silver trumpets rang across the Dome - M. Linton, D. Morgan (Easter Day)
The sin was mine; I did not understand - M. Al-Raad, J. Biggs, G. Medlock (The New Remorse)
The sky is laced with fitful red HUN - E. Boer, C. Griffes, D. Morris (Le Réveillon)
The Sphinx [Song cycle] (In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks) - G. Bantock
The Sphinx (In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks)
The Thames nocturne of blue and gold HUN - M. Easton, C. Griffes (Impression de Matin)
The True Knowledge (Thou knowest all; I seek in vain) - M. Al-Raad, J. Biggs, M. Easton, G. Medlock
The western wind is blowing fair - E. Christie, F. Cowen, H. Jervis-Read, O. Wilde (Serenade (For Music))
The wild bee reels from bough to bough - J. Carpenter (Her Voice)
This mighty empire hath but feet of clay HUN - C. Berg (Theoretikos)
This winter air is keen and cold - M. Linton (Le Jardin Des Tuileries)
Thou knowest all; I seek in vain - M. Al-Raad, J. Biggs, M. Easton, G. Medlock (The True Knowledge)
To drift with every passion till my soul (Hélas!) -
To drift with every passion till my soul - G. Medlock, T. Pasatieri (Helas)
To Helen (The western wind is blowing fair) - F. Cowen, O. Wilde
To My Wife With a Copy of My Poems (I can write no stately proem)
To outer senses there is peace GER UKR RUS - E. Belchamber, E. Boer, R. Brooks, C. Deis, C. Griffes, H. Jervis-Read, M. Linton, D. Morris, G. Nevin, N. Slonimsky, A. Snyder (La Fuite de la Lune)
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear - M. Linton (Taedium Vitae)
Tread lightly, she is near GER GER RUS - G. Bachlund, E. Barnum, R. Berger, H. Boatwright, C. Braun, G. Butterworth, K. Clarke, H. Clough-Leighter, G. Cory, L. Dallapiccola, M. Emery, F. Farkas, S. Finegan, A. van Haren, C. Haubiel, H. Jervis-Read, R. Jones, M. Linton, O. Luening, R. Malipiero, G. McKay, G. Medlock, D. Morgan, T. Pasatieri, N. Rorem, J. Rutherford, E. Sharpe, D. Van Vactor, R. Wilding-White, G. Young (Requiescat)
Tread lightly, she is near (Tread lightly, she is near) - L. Dallapiccola GER GER RUS
Tristitiæ (O well for him who lives at ease) - M. Linton
Under the Balcony (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - M. Al-Raad
Under the rose-tree's dancing shade HUN - G. Bachlund, E. Diemer, G. Gover, J. Komulainen (Le Panneau)
Under the rose-tree's dancing shade (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade) - E. Diemer HUN
Vörös az égen a szegély (Le réveillon) -
Vtecha mіsjacja = Втеча місяця (Chuttjam pozhivi tut nemaє = Чуттям поживи тут немає) - B. Lyatoshynsky GER RUS *
Wasted days (A fair slim boy not made for this world’s pain) - G. Medlock
Was this His coming! I had hoped to see - D. Healey, M. Linton (Ave Maria Gratia Plena)
We caught the tread of dancing feet - G. Bachlund, E. Boer, T. Pasatieri, D. Swann (The Harlot's House)
Wilde’s World (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure) - F. Silverman
Within the restless, hurried, modern world - M. Easton, J. Goertzen, D. Morgan (My Voice)
Written in Holy Week at Genoa (I wandered in Scoglietto’s green retreat) - E. Sharpe
Yet each man kills the thing he loves - G. Medlock (The Ballad of Reading Gaol (first version))

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