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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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 Opus order

Consider well your neighbour, what an imbecile he is (Text: George Norman Douglas)
Divine Music! (Text: Khalil Gibran)
Du sollst dir kein Bild machen! (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg)
For ever am I liberated (Text: Anonymous)
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build (Text: Robert Browning)
For what is glory but the blaze of fame (Text: John Milton)
Hence vain deluding Joys (Text: John Milton)
I have seen the vision (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Hason Raja)
In Solitude - In Plenitude (Text: Christopher Murray Grieve , as Hugh MacDiarmid) *
In solitude, where Being signless dwelt (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami)
Love can give no idea of Music (Text: Anonymous after Hector Berlioz)
Music is a cry of the soul
Music is ... a way to enlightenment to the spirit (Text: Kaikhosru Sorabji)
My soul preached to me and said, "Do not be delighted (Text: Khalil Gibran)
My Soul preached to me (Text: Khalil Gibran)
Now, all is finished
O Thou Love of unsurpassable sweetness, help Thou me to taste sweetness of Thy name (Text: Sinhakulathipati Papanarya Yatiraj Surendranath Voegeli-Arya after Thayumanavar)
Tapfere sind solche, die Taten vollbringen (Text: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg)
The church bells toll a melancholy round (Text: John Keats)
The eternal Dream (Text: Rabindranath Tagore)
Those men of serene mind enter into the All, having realized (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Whither, again, am I to turn my eyes to sing Thy praise (Text: George Robert Stowe Mead after Bible or other Sacred Texts)

op. 7. Five Songs of Tagore GER
op. 9. Wings of Death
op. 13. String Quintet
op. 40. Six Songs for high soprano and piano

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