Alistair Hinton (b. 1950) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive

Composer: Alistair Hinton (b. 1950)

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

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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

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
Consider well your neighbour, what an imbecile he is, op. 13 no. 5i (in String Quintet) (Text: George Norman Douglas)
Death cannot swallow life, which is immortal, op. 9 no. 2 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
Divine Music!, op. 13 no. 5n (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
Du sollst dir kein Bild machen!, op. 13 no. 5c (in String Quintet) (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
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
For ever am I liberated, op. 13 no. 5s (in String Quintet) (Text: Anonymous)
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, op. 13 no. 5r (in String Quintet) (Text: Robert Browning)
For what is glory but the blaze of fame, op. 13 no. 5h (in String Quintet) (Text: John Milton)
Hence vain deluding Joys, op. 13 no. 5k (in String Quintet) (Text: John Milton)
If I can, I shall find once again, op. 9 no. 4 (in Wings of Death) (Text: Aurobindo Bose after Rabindranath Tagore) [x]*
I have seen the vision, op. 13 no. 5a (in String Quintet) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Hason Raja)
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 , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
In solitude, where Being signless dwelt, op. 13 no. 5u (in String Quintet) (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
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
Love can give no idea of Music, op. 13 no. 5o (in String Quintet) (Text: Anonymous after Hector Berlioz)
Music is a cry of the soul, op. 13 no. 5f (in String Quintet)
Music is ... a way to enlightenment to the spirit, op. 13 no. 5j (in String Quintet) (Text: Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji)
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
My soul preached to me and said, "Do not be delighted, op. 13 no. 5g (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
My Soul preached to me, op. 13 no. 5e (in String Quintet) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
Now, all is finished, op. 13 no. 5q (in String Quintet)
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]*
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)
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
Tapfere sind solche, die Taten vollbringen, op. 13 no. 5b (in String Quintet) (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg) *
The church bells toll a melancholy round, op. 13 no. 5d (in String Quintet) (Text: John Keats)
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]*
The eternal Dream, op. 13 no. 5m (in String Quintet) (Text: Rabindranath Tagore)
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)
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)
To Robert Browning, op. 40 no. 3 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
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)
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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