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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Hinton

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Alistair Hinton (b. 1950)

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

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

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 SWE
    • 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 LIT
    • no. 3. To Robert Browning (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
    • no. 4. Exclusion (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
    • no. 5. A last word (Text: Ernest Christopher 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)
    • 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 Christopher Dowson)
  • Bright is the ring, op. 40 no. 2 (in Six Songs for high soprano and piano) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA LIT
  • 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)
  • 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 SWE
  • 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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