Composer: Alistair Hinton (b. 1950)

Website: http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/hinton/biography.php

Listing of art song and choral settings in the database

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

• Five Songs of Tagore (Fünf Tagorelieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 7 GER
• no. 1. Pluck this little flower (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. My heart, the bird of the wilderness (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) CZE CZE FRE GER GER ITA POL
• no. 3. I plucked your flower (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) CZE FRE GER GER ITA SPA SWE
• no. 4. Then finish the last song (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA POL
• no. 5. Peace, my heart (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER
• Six Songs for high soprano and piano, op. 40
• no. 1. The oven bird (Text: Robert Frost)
• no. 2. Bright is the ring (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA
• no. 3. To Robert Browning (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
• no. 4. Exclusion (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 5. A last word (Text: Ernest Dowson)
• no. 6. Envoi (Text: Ezra Pound)
• String Quintet, op. 13
• no. 5a. I have seen the vision (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Hason Raja)
• no. 5b. Tapfere sind solche, die Taten vollbringen (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
• no. 5c. Du sollst dir kein Bild machen! (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
• no. 5d. The church bells toll a melancholy round (Text: John Keats)
• no. 5e. My Soul preached to me (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• no. 5f. Music is a cry of the soul
• no. 5g. My soul preached to me and said, "Do not be delighted (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• no. 5h. For what is glory but the blaze of fame (Text: John Milton)
• no. 5i. Consider well your neighbour, what an imbecile he is (Text: George Norman Douglas)
• no. 5j. Music is ... a way to enlightenment to the spirit (Text: Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji)
• no. 5k. Hence vain deluding Joys (Text: John Milton)
• no. 5l. Whither, again, am I to turn my eyes to sing Thy praise (Text: George Robert Stowe Mead after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 5m. The eternal Dream (Text: Rabindranath Tagore)
• no. 5n. Divine Music! (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• no. 5o. Love can give no idea of Music (Text: Anonymous after Hector Berlioz)
• no. 5p. O Thou Love of unsurpassable sweetness, help Thou me to taste sweetness of Thy name (Text: Sinhakulathipati Papanarya Yatiraj Surendranath Voegeli-Arya after Thayumanavar)
• no. 5q. Now, all is finished
• no. 5r. Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 5s. For ever am I liberated (Text: Anonymous )
• no. 5t. Those men of serene mind enter into the All, having realized (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 5u. Concealed in selflessness, One Being was (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• Wings of Death, op. 9
• no. 1. In front stretches the ocean of Peace (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 2. Death cannot swallow life, which is immortal (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 3. O bird, from time to time why do you forget your song? (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 4. If I can, I shall find once again (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 5. On the shores of Rupanārāyan (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 6. The day’s first sun had asked (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 7. The dark night of Sorrow (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• no. 8. You have strewn the path of Creation (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• [No title] (For what is glory but the blaze of fame), op. 13 no. 5h (in String Quintet) (Text: John Milton)
• [No title] (Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build), op. 13 no. 5r (in String Quintet) (Text: Robert Browning)
• [No title] (Tapfere sind solche, die Taten vollbringen), op. 13 no. 5b (in String Quintet) (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
• [No title] (Du sollst dir kein Bild machen!), op. 13 no. 5c (in String Quintet) (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
• [No title] (The church bells toll a melancholy round), op. 13 no. 5d (in String Quintet) (Text: John Keats)
• [No title] (Hence vain deluding Joys), op. 13 no. 5k (in String Quintet) (Text: John Milton)
• [No title] (Love can give no idea of Music), op. 13 no. 5o (in String Quintet) (Text: Anonymous after Hector Berlioz)
• [No title] (In solitude, where Being signless dwelt), op. 13 no. 5u (in String Quintet) (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
• [No title] (Now, all is finished), op. 13 no. 5q (in String Quintet)
• [No title] (Those men of serene mind enter into the All, having realized), op. 13 no. 5t (in String Quintet) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• [No title] (I have seen the vision), op. 13 no. 5a (in String Quintet) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Hason Raja)
• [No title] (Whither, again, am I to turn my eyes to sing Thy praise), op. 13 no. 5l (in String Quintet) (Text: George Robert Stowe Mead after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• [No title] (For ever am I liberated), op. 13 no. 5s (in String Quintet) (Text: Anonymous )
• [No title] (Music is ... a way to enlightenment to the spirit), op. 13 no. 5j (in String Quintet) (Text: Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji)
• [No title] (The eternal Dream), op. 13 no. 5m (in String Quintet) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore)
• [No title] (O Thou Love of unsurpassable sweetness, help Thou me to taste sweetness of Thy name), op. 13 no. 5p (in String Quintet) (Text: Sinhakulathipati Papanarya Yatiraj Surendranath Voegeli-Arya after Thayumanavar)
• [No title] (Divine Music!), op. 13 no. 5n (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• [No title] (My Soul preached to me), op. 13 no. 5e (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• [No title] (My soul preached to me and said, "Do not be delighted), op. 13 no. 5g (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• [No title] (Consider well your neighbour, what an imbecile he is), op. 13 no. 5i (in String Quintet) (Text: George Norman Douglas)
• [No title] (Music is a cry of the soul), op. 13 no. 5f (in String Quintet)
• A last word, op. 40 no. 5 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Ernest Dowson)
• Bright is the ring, op. 40 no. 2 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA
• Death cannot swallow life, which is immortal, op. 9 no. 2 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• Envoi, op. 40 no. 6 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Ezra Pound)
• Exclusion, op. 40 no. 4 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• If I can, I shall find once again, op. 9 no. 4 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• In front stretches the ocean of Peace, op. 9 no. 1 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• In Solitude - In Plenitude (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve) *
• I plucked your flower, op. 7 no. 3 (in Five Songs of Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) CZE FRE GER GER ITA SPA SWE
• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, op. 7 no. 2 (in Five Songs of Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) CZE CZE FRE GER GER ITA POL
• O bird, from time to time why do you forget your song?, op. 9 no. 3 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• On the shores of Rupanārāyan, op. 9 no. 5 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• Peace, my heart, op. 7 no. 5 (in Five Songs of Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER
• Pluck this little flower, op. 7 no. 1 (in Five Songs of Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER ITA
• The dark night of Sorrow, op. 9 no. 7 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• The day’s first sun had asked, op. 9 no. 6 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
• Then finish the last song, op. 7 no. 4 (in Five Songs of Tagore) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) FRE GER GER ITA POL
• The oven bird, op. 40 no. 1 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Robert Frost)
• To Robert Browning, op. 40 no. 3 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
• You have strewn the path of Creation, op. 9 no. 8 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*

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