Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Holst

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Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)

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A choral fantasia, op. 51, H. 177

no. 1. Man born of desire (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 2. Organ solo
no. 3. Rejoice, ye dead (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 4. Man born of desire (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Rejoice, ye dead (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, op. 26

no. 1. Battle Hymn (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 2. To the Unknown God (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 3. Funeral Hymn (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 4. To Varuna (God of the Waters) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 5. To Agni (God of Fire) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 6. Funeral Chant (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 7. Hymn to the Dawn (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 8. Hymn to the Waters (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗ DUT
no. 9. Hymn to Vena (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 10. Hymn to the Travellers (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 11. Hymn to Agni (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 12. Hymn to Soma (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 13. Hymn to Manas (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
no. 14. Hymn to Indra (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗

Eight canons

no. 7. Evening on the Moselle (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Decimus Magnus Ausonius)

Four Old English Carols, op. 20b, H. 82

no. 3. Jesu, thou the Virgin-born (Text: Anonymous)

Four Songs for Voice and Violin, op. 35

no. 1. Jesu Sweet (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. My soul has nought but fire and ice
no. 3. I sing of a maiden (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
no. 4. My Leman is so true (Text: Anonymous)

Nine Hyms from the Rig Veda, or Vedic Hymns, op. 24

no. 1. Ushas (Dawn) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 2. Varuna I (Sky) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 3. Maruts (Stormclouds) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 4. Indra (God of Storm and Battle) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 5. Varuna II (The Waters) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 6. Song of the Frogs (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 7. Vac (Speech) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 8. Creation (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
no. 9. Faith (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗

Seven Partsongs, op. 44, H. 162

no. 1. Say who is this? (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 2. O Love, I complain (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 3. Angel spirits of sleep (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 4. When first we met we did not guess (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Sorrow and joy (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 6. Love on my heart from heaven fell (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Assemble all ye maidens (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Six Choral Folksongs, op. 36b, H. 136

no. 1. I sow'd the seeds of love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. There was a tree (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. The song of the blacksmith (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. I love my love (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. Swansea Town (Text: Volkslieder )

Six Choruses for male voices and string orchestra, op. 52, H. 186

no. 1. Good Friday (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard)
no. 2. Intercession (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Sedulius Scottus)
no. 3. How mighty are the Sabbaths (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Peter Abelard)
no. 4. A love song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 5. Drinking song (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 6. Before sleep (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Aurelius Prudentius Clemens)

Six Songs, op. 16

no. 1. Calm is the morn (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
no. 2. My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
no. 3. Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
no. 4. Lovely kind, and kindly loving (Text: Nicholas Breton)
no. 5. Cradle song (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. Peace (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt)

Songs from The Princess, op. 20a, H. 80

no. 1. Sweet and low (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER GER
no. 2. The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
no. 3. Tears, idle tears (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 4. O swallow, swallow (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 5. Home they brought her warrior dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
no. 6. Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT GER SPA

Three Festival Choruses, op. 36a

no. 1. Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Text: Gerald Moultrie after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 2. Turn back O man (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
no. 3. A festival chime (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]

Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs, op. 48, H. 174

no. 1. Persephone (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 2. Things lovelier (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 3. Now in these fairylands (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 4. A little music (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 5. The thought (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 6. The floral bandit (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 7. Envoi (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 8. The dream-city (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 9. Journey's end (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 10. In the street of lost time (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 11. Rhyme (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
no. 12. Betelgeuse (Text: Humbert Wolfe)

Twelve Welsh Folk Songs, H. 183

no. 9. Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws (Text: Dora Herbert-Jones) ENG
no. 9. My sweetheart's like Venus (Text: Steuart Wilson after Dora Herbert-Jones) *

Two Carols, H. 91

no. 1. A welcome song (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Terly, terlow (Text: Anonymous)

Two Eastern Pictures, H. 112

no. 1. Spring (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) ⊗ DUT
no. 2. Summer (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) ⊗ DUT

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

A dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
Ah, come, fair mistress (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]
Airly Beacon (Text: Charles Kingsley)
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
Angel spirits of sleep (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Anna‑Marie (Text: Walter Scott, Sir) FRE
A Prayer for Light (Text: Eric Mackay) [x]
Autumn song (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
A Vigil of Pentecost (Text: Alice Mary Buckton)
A welcome song, H. 91 no. 1 (Text: Anonymous)
Bhanavar's Lament (Text: George Meredith)
Clear and cool (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Come to me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Darest thou now O Soul (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
Dewy Roses (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt) [x]
Die Spröde (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA RUS
Dirge and Hymeneal (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Diverus and Lazarus, H. 137 (Text: Anonymous)
Draw not away thy hands (Text: William Morris)
Dream tryst (Text: Francis Thompson) FRE
Epilogue (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]
Eternal Father (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Evening on the Moselle (Text: Helen Jane Waddell after Decimus Magnus Ausonius)
Gird on thy sword (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
God be in my head (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I come from haunts of coot and hern (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
I love thee (Text: Thomas Hood) GER
In the bleak midwinter (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) DUT FRI GER
In youth is pleasure, H. 76
I scanned her picture, dreaming (Text: Thomas Hardy after Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GRE ITA KOR LIT NOR RUS RUS RUS SPA
I vow to thee, my country (Text: Cecil Spring-Rice, Sir)
Light leaves whisper, H. 20 (Text: Fritz Bennicke Hart) [x]
Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws, H. 183 no. 9 (Text: Dora Herbert-Jones) ENG
Man born to toil (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
My joy (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
My sweetheart's like Venus, H. 183 no. 9 (Text: Steuart Wilson after Dora Herbert-Jones) *
Not a sound but echoing in me (Text: George MacDonald)
Now sleep, and take thy rest (Text: James Mabbe after Fernando de Rojas) ⊗
Nunc dimittis, H. 127 [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG FIN FRE LAT GER DUT SPA
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Text: John Keats)
O Lady, leave that silken thread, H. 4 no. 2 (Text: Thomas Hood)
O spiritual pilgrim, H. 188 (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
Ratri (The night) (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
Roadways (Text: John Masefield)
She who is dear to me (Text: Walter E. Grogan) [x]
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Sing Heigh-ho! (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Song of the Drovers (Text: John Greenleaf Whittier)
Song of the Woods (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt) [x]
Song to the Sleeping Lady (Text: George MacDonald)
Spring it is cheery (Text: Thomas Hood)
Spring, H. 112 no. 1 (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) ⊗ DUT
Summer, H. 112 no. 2 (Text: Gustav Holst after Kalidasa) ⊗ DUT
Terly, terlow, H. 91 no. 2 (Text: Anonymous)
The autumn is old (Text: Thomas Hood)
The Ballad of Hunting Knowe (Text: E. A. Ramsden)
The Day Of The Lord (Text: Charles Kingsley)
The Exile of Erin (Text: Thomas Campbell)
The Harper (Text: Thomas Campbell)
The heart worships (Text: Alice Mary Buckton)
The homecoming (Text: Thomas Hardy)
There is dew for the flow'ret (Text: Thomas Hood)
There sits a bird on yonder tree (Text: Richard Harris Barham , as Thomas Ingoldsby)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
The swallow leaves her nest (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
The White Lady's Farewell (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
Thou didst delight mine eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
To a Wild Rose (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt) [x]
To Hope (Text: Alfred Henry Hyatt) [x]
Twin stars aloft (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Whether we die or we live (Text: George Meredith)
Winter and the birds (Text: Fritz Bennicke Hart) [x]

op. 4. Four songs
op. 6. Ornulf's Drapa (Text: William Archer after Henrik Ibsen) [x] ⊗
op. 9b. Ave Maria, H. 49 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) AFR DUT ENG FRE FRE FRE ITA ITA ITA SPA SPA SWE UKR
op. 15. Invocation to the dawn (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ⊗
no. 2. Fain would I change that note (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. Sergeant's song (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. In a wood (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Between us now (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. I will not let thee go (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
op. 16. Six Songs
op. 18. The Mystic Trumpeter, H 71 (Text: Walt Whitman)
op. 20a. Songs from The Princess
op. 20b. Four Old English Carols
op. 24. Nine Hyms from the Rig Veda, or Vedic Hymns
op. 26. Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
op. 34.
op. 35. Four Songs for Voice and Violin
op. 36a. Three Festival Choruses
op. 36b. Six Choral Folksongs
op. 38. Ode to Death, H 144 (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
op. 41. First Choral Symphony, H. 155 (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
op. 43.
op. 44. Seven Partsongs
op. 48. Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs
op. 51. A choral fantasia
op. 52. Six Choruses for male voices and string orchestra

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