Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by B. Britten

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(Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

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8 Folk Song Arrangements (8 Arrangements de chants populaires, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Acht Volkslieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann) FRE GER

no. 1. Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
no. 2. She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
no. 3. Lemady (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
no. 4. Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
no. 5. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG FRE GER
no. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG ENG FRE GER
no. 7. The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
no. 8. Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER

A Birthday Hansel, op. 92

no. 1. Birthday Song (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. My Early Walk (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 3. Wee Willie (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
no. 4. My Hoggie (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER
no. 5. Afton Water (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER HUN
no. 6. The Winter (Text: Robert Burns) CHI GER
no. 7. Leezie Lindsay (Text: Robert Burns) FRE

A Boy was Born, op. 3 [cantata]

no. 1. Theme: A Boy was Born (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Variation I: Lullay Jesu (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. Variation II: Herod (Text: Anonymous)
no. 4. Variation III: Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. Variation IV: The Three Kings (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. Variation V: In the bleak mid-winter / Corpus Christi Carol [multi-text setting] (Text: Rossetti) GER DUT FRI
no. 7. Variation VI: (Finale) Noel! (Text: Francis Quarles; Thomas Tusser)

A Ceremony of Carols (A Ceremony of Carols, translated by Bertram Kottmann) (Une cérémonie de Noël, translated by Guy Laffaille), op. 28 GER FRE

no. 1. Procession (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER
no. 2. Wolcum Yole! (Text: 14^th century) FRE GER
no. 3. There is no rose (Text: 15th-century) FRE GER
no. 4a. That yongë child (Text: 14^th century) FRE GER
no. 4b. Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
no. 5. As dew in Aprille (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE FRE GER
no. 6. This little babe (Text: Robert Southwell) FRE
no. 7. Interlude (Harp Solo)
no. 8. In freezing winter night (Text: Robert Southwell) FRE GER
no. 9. Spring carol (Text: William Cornish) FRE GER
no. 10. Deo gracias (Text: 15^th century) FRE GER
no. 11. Recession (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER

A Charm of Lullabies (Zaubrische Wiegenlieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 41 GER

no. 1. A cradle song (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 2. The Highland Balou (Text: Robert Burns) CZE ENG FRE GER GER
no. 3. Sephestia's Lullaby (Text: Robert Greene) GER
no. 4. A charm (Text: Thomas Randolph) GER
no. 5. The Nurse's Song (Text: John Phillip) FRE GER

Ballad of Heroes, op. 14

no. 1. Funeral march (Text: Randall Carline Swingler)
no. 2. Scherzo - Dance of Death (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 3. Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting] (Text: Swingler, Auden)
no. 4. Epilog (Text: Randall Carline Swingler)

Cabaret Songs

no. 1. Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 2. Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 3. Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 4. Calypso (Text: W. H. Auden)

Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta (The Poet's Echo) (L'écho du poète, translated by Guy Laffaille), op. 76 ENG FRE

no. 1. Эхо (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) FRE
no. 2. Я думал, сердце позабыло (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) FRE
no. 3. Ангел (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) ENG FRE
no. 4. Соловей и роза (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) ENG FRE GER
no. 5. Эпиграмма (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) FRE
no. 6. Стихи, сочинённые ночью во время бессонницы (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) FRE

Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano

no. 1. To lie flat on the back (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 2. Night covers up the rigid land (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 3. The sun shines down (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
no. 4. Fish in the unruffled lakes (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 5. What's in your mind? (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 6. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) GER

Five Flower Songs (Fünf Blumenlieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
no. 2. The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT DUT DUT FRE GER
no. 3. Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe) CAT DUT GER
no. 4. The evening primrose (Text: John Clare) CAT DUT GER
no. 5. The Ballad of Green Broom (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT GER

Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 2 - chansons populaires

no. 1. La noël passée (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Voici le printemps (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Fileuse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 4. Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 5. La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 7. Eho! Eho! (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 8. Quand j'étais chez mon père (Text: Volkslieder )

Friday Afternoons, op. 7

no. 1. Begone, dull care! (Text: 17^th cent.)
no. 2. A tragic story (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
no. 3. Cuckoo! (Text: Jane Taylor)
no. 4. Ee-oh! (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. A New Year carol (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. I mun be married on Sunday (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 7. There was a man of Newington (Text: Anonymous)
no. 8. Fishing song (Text: John Chalkhill)
no. 9. The useful plough (Text: Anonymous)
no. 10. Jazz-Man (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
no. 11. There was a monkey (Text: Anonymous)
no. 12. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )

Les Illuminations (Visions, translated by Ahmed E. Ismail) (Les Illuminations) (Las Iluminaciones, translated by José Miguel Llata) (靈光, translated by Yen-Chiang Che) (イリュミナシオン, translated by Naoyuki Okada), op. 18 ENG CHI SPA CHI JPN

no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 2. Villes (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 3. Antique [multi-text setting] (Text: Rimbaud) FRE ENG JPN SPA CHI
no. 4. Royauté (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG ENG JPN SPA
no. 5. Marine (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 7. Being beauteous (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 8. Parade (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA
no. 9. Départ (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CHI ENG JPN SPA

Missa Brevis in D [oratorio]

no. ?. Gloria (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER GER MUL
no. 1. Kyrie (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
no. 3. Sanctus / Benedictus [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN ENG FRE CAT DUT
no. 4. Agnus Dei (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER IRI ITA MUL

Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra (Nocturn per a tenor solo, set obligato instruments i orquestra de cordes, translated by Salvador Pila), op. 60 CAT

no. 1. On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CAT FRE
no. 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE
no. 3. Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) CAT FRE
no. 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Text: Thomas Middleton) CAT FRE
no. 5. But that night when on my bed I lay (Text: William Wordsworth) CAT FRE
no. 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Text: Wilfred Owen) CAT FRE
no. 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE
no. 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FRE FRE ITA

On This Island, op. 11

no. 1. Let the florid music praise! (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 2. Now the leaves are falling fast (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 3. Seascape (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 4. Nocturne (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 5. As it is, plenty (Text: W. H. Auden)

Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8

no. 1. Prologue (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 2. Rats away (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. Messalina (Text: Anonymous)
no. 4. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
no. 5. Epilogue and Funeral March (Text: W. H. Auden)

Quatre chansons françaises (Four French Songs) ENG

no. 1. Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Hugo) CAT ENG
no. 2. Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
no. 3. L'Enfance (Text: Victor Hugo) CAT ENG
no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS

Sacred and Profane: Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91

no. 1. St Godric's Hymn (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. I mon waxe wod (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. Lenten is come (Text: Anonymous)
no. 4. The long night (Text: Anonymous) IRI
no. 5. Yif ic of luve can (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. Carol (Text: Anonymous)
no. 7. Ye that pasen by (Text: Anonymous)
no. 8. A death (Text: Anonymous)

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente (Six Hölderlin fragments, translated by Emily Ezust) (Sis Fragments de Hölderlin, translated by Salvador Pila) (Six fragments de Hölderlin, translated by Stéphane Goldet), op. 61 ENG CAT FRE

no. 1. Menschenbeifall (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG ENG FRE
no. 2. Die Heimat (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG FRE
no. 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG FRE
no. 4. Die Jugend (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG FRE
no. 5. Hälfte des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT CZE ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE IRI RUS
no. 6. Die Linien des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG ENG FRE FRE

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (Sérénade pour ténor, cor et cordes, translated by Jean-Pierre Granger) (Serenata para Tenor, Corno y Cuerdas, translated by Pablo Sabat), op. 31 FRE SPA

no. 1. Pastoral (Text: Charles Cotton) CAT FRE NYN SPA
no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
no. 3. Elegy (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
no. 4. Dirge (Text: 15^th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
no. 5. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) CAT FRE NYN SPA
no. 6. Sonnet (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Siete Sonetos por Michelangelo, translated by Juan Henríquez Concepción) (Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, translated by Carl Johengen) (Sept sonnets de Michel-Ange, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Septyni Mikelandželo sonetai, translated by Giedrius Prunskus), op. 22 SPA ENG FRE LIT

no. 1. Sonetto XVI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
no. 2. Sonetto XXXI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE LIT SPA
no. 3. Sonetto XXX (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG FRE GER GER LIT SPA SPA
no. 4. Sonetto LV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
no. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
no. 6. Sonetto XXXII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
no. 7. Sonetto XXIV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG FRE LIT SPA

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, op. 74

no. 1. Proverb I (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 2. London (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 3. Proverb II (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 4. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 5. Proverb III (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
no. 6. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER
no. 7. Proverb IV (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 8. The Tyger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
no. 9. Proverb V (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 10. The fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
no. 11. Proverb VI (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE
no. 12. Ah, Sun-flower (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE SPA
no. 13. Proverb VII (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER ITA RUS
no. 14. Every Night and every Morn [multi-text setting] (Text: Blake) FRE CAT

Songs from the Chinese, op. 58

no. 1. The big chariot (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 2. The Old Lute (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi)
no. 3. The autumn wind (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) ⊗
no. 4. The herd-boy (Text: Arthur Waley after Lu Yu) ⊗
no. 5. Depression (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi) ⊗
no. 6. Dance song (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗

Spring Symphony, op. 44

no. 1. Shine out (Text: George Chapman) CHI
no. 2. The merry cuckoo (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 3. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 4. The driving boy [multi-text setting] (Text: Peele, Clare) DUT
no. 5. The morning star (Text: John Milton)
no. 6. Welcome, Maids of Honour (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
no. 7. Waters above (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 9. When will my May come (Text: Richard Barnfield)
no. 10. Fair and fair (Text: George Peele)
no. 11. Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 12. Finale [multi-text setting] (Text: Beaumont, Fletcher) LAT ENG GER

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (Die heiligen Sonette des John Donne, translated by Daniel Johannsen) (Les sonnets sacrés de John Donne, translated by Guy Laffaille), op. 35 GER FRE

no. 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 2. Batter my heart (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 3. Oh might those sighes and teares (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 4. Oh, to vex me (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 5. What if this present (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 6. Since she whom I lov'd (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 7. At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 8. Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
no. 9. Death be not proud (Text: John Donne) FRE GER GER GER ITA

The Way to the Tomb

no. 1. Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 2. Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 3. Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *

Three Two-Part Songs

The rainbow (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter De la Mare)

Tit for tat (Un prêté pour un rendu, translated by Guy Laffaille) (Wie du mir, so ich dir, translated by Bertram Kottmann) FRE GER

no. 1. A Song of Enchantment (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER GER
no. 2. Autumn (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT CHI FRE GER
no. 3. Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
no. 4. Vigil (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
no. 5. Tit for tat (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER

Two Ballads for two voices and piano

no. 1. Mother Comfort (Text: Montagu Slater) GER
no. 2. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) GER

Two Part-Songs

Lift boy (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

War Requiem, op. 66

no. 1. Requiem aeternam [multi-text setting] (Text: Owen, Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT GER CAT FRE ENG SPA
no. 2. Dies irae [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts, Owen) SPA LAT DUT CAT FRE ENG
no. 3. Offertorium [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts, Owen) ENG FRE DUT CAT SPA
no. 4. Sanctus [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts, Owen) SPA FIN DUT CAT FRE ENG
no. 5. Agnus Dei [multi-text setting] (Text: Owen, Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN SPA FRE ENG DUT CAT
no. 6. Libera me [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT GER DUT ENG FRE SPA

Who are these children?, op. 84

no. 1. A riddle (Answer: the earth) (Text: William Soutar)
no. 2. A laddie's sang (Text: William Soutar)
no. 3. Nightmare (Text: William Soutar)
no. 4. Black day (Text: William Soutar)
no. 5. Bed-time (Text: William Soutar)
no. 6. Slaughter (Text: William Soutar)
no. 7. A riddle (The child you were) (Text: William Soutar)
no. 8. The larky lad (Text: William Soutar)
no. 9. Who are these children? (Text: William Soutar)
no. 10. Supper (Text: William Soutar)
no. 11. The children (Text: William Soutar)
no. 12. The auld aik (Text: William Soutar)

Winter words (Paroles d'hiver, translated by Christopher Park), op. 52 FRE

no. 1. At Day-Close in November (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE GER GER
no. 2. Midnight on the Great Western (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 3. Wagtail and Baby (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 4. The little old table (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 5. The choirmaster's burial (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 6. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 7. At the railway station, Upway (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
no. 8. Before life and after (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

A dirge (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CAT CZE FRE ITA ITA RUS
Advance Democracy (Text: Randall Carline Swingler) CAT
Agnus Dei (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER IRI ITA MUL
A hymn on divine musick (Text: Anonymous) CAT
A hymn to the Virgin (Text: Anonymous) GER
A morning hymn (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
An evening hymn (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
A poison tree (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER
A Song of Enchantment (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER GER
At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
At the mid hour of night (Text: Volkslieder )
Aube (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) CAT
Autumn (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT CHI FRE GER
Avenging and bright (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE
Beware! (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Volkslieder ) CAT DUT FRE
Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
Birthday song for Erwin (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG FRE GER
Calypso (Text: W. H. Auden)
Ca' the yowes (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
Celemene (Text: Thomas Southerne)
Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
Chorale after an Old French Carol (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] ⊗
Chorale (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
Come you not from Newcastle? (Text: Volkslieder )
Cradle song (Text: Louis MacNeice)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG ENG FRE GER
Dans les bois (Text: Gérard Labrunie , as Gérard de Nerval) CAT ENG
Dawtie's devotion (Text: William Soutar)
Dear Harp of my Country! (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE
Dulcibella (Text: A Henley)
Early one morning (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FIN FRE
Eho! Eho! (Text: Volkslieder )
Epitaph: The Clerk (Text: Herbert Asquith) CAT
Evening hymn (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Fairest isle (Text: John Dryden) CAT CHI FRE GER SPA
Fancy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
Festival Cantata (Text: Christopher Smart)
Festival Te Deum (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
Fileuse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Fish in the unruffled lakes (Text: W. H. Auden)
From 'Lucy' (Text: William Wordsworth) CAT
Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. Auden)
Gloria (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FRE GER GER MUL
Hark the ech'ing air! (Text: Elkanah Settle)
How blest are shepherds (Text: John Dryden) CAT
How sweet the answer (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER
Hymn to St Cecilia (Text: W. H. Auden)
I attempt from love's sickness to fly (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
If I'd as much money as I could spend (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
If it's ever spring again (Text: Thomas Hardy) CAT
If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes) CAT
I have sinned (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
I'll sail upon the dog-star (Text: Thomas d'Urfey after John Fletcher) ⊗ CAT CHI
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
I spy Celia
I take no pleasure (Text: ? Chamberlaine, Mrs.)
I wonder as I wander (Text: John Jacob Niles) FRE FRE
Job's curse (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden)
Jubilate Deo [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT GER ENG FRE FIN LAT
Kyrie (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG
La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder )
La noël passée (Text: Volkslieder )
Lemady (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
L'Enfance (Text: Victor Hugo) CAT ENG
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
Lift boy (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Lilian (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
Little Sir William (Text: Volkslieder )
Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
Lord, what is man? (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
Lost is my quiet GER HEB
Mad Bess
Man is for the woman made (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux; Thomas Scott) CAT FRE
Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe) CAT DUT GER
Master Kilby (Text: Volkslieder )
Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Mother Comfort (Text: Montagu Slater) GER
Music for a while (Text: John Dryden; Nathaniel Lee) CAT FRE
Night covers up the rigid land (Text: W. H. Auden)
Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
No, resistance is but vain (Text: Anthony Henly) CAT
Not all my torments CAT FRE
Not even summer yet (Text: Peter Burra) CAT
Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT GER SPA
Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Hugo) CAT ENG
O can ye sew cushions? (Text: Volkslieder )
Oft in the stilly night (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER GER
Oliver Cromwell (Text: Volkslieder )
On the brow of Richmond Hill (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) CAT
O solitude (Text: Katherine Philips after Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant) CAT GER
O that I had ne'er been married (Text: Robert Burns)
O Waly, Waly (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FRE ITA
Pious Celinda (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
Prithee (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
Quand j'étais chez mon père (Text: Volkslieder )
Rejoice in the Lamb (Text: Christopher Smart)
Rich and rare (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE FRE
Ring out the thousand wars of old (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) SWE
Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
Sail on, sail on (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT CHI FRE GER
Sailor-Boy (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
Sally in our alley (Text: Henry Carey) GER
Sanctus / Benedictus [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN ENG FRE CAT DUT
Shepherd, leave decoying (Text: John Dryden) CAT
Shepherd's carol (Text: W. H. Auden)
She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
Sound the trumpet (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
Sweeter than roses (Text: Richard Norton) CAT FRE
Sweet Polly Oliver (Text: Volkslieder )
Sweet was the song (Text: Anonymous)
Take not a woman's anger ill (Text: Robert Gould) CAT
Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
Te Deum in C (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. Auden)
The ash grove (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT GER
The Ballad of Green Broom (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT GER
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Text: Volkslieder )
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation when our Saviour (at twelve years of age) had withdrawn himself (Text: Nahum Tate)
The bonny Earl o' Moray GER
The brisk young widow (Text: Volkslieder )
The Children and Sir Nameless (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The crocodile (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
The deaf woman's courtship ⊗ FRE
The evening primrose (Text: John Clare) CAT DUT GER
The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder ) FRE GER
The foggy, foggy dew (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
The gully (Text: William Soutar)
The joy of grief (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The king goes hunting (Text: Iris Holland Rogers after Volkslieder ) *
The knotting song (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir) GER
The last rose of summer (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT DUT FRE FRE GER SWE
The Lincolnshire poacher (Text: Volkslieder )
The Miller of Dee (Text: Volkslieder after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) CAT
The Minstrel Boy (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER SWE
The nurse's song (Text: William Blake) CAT
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The ploughboy (Text: Volkslieder )
The Queen's Epicedium (Text: R. Herbert) ENG
The rainbow (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The red cockatoo (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi) ⊗
There's none to soothe (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
There's not a swain of the plain (Text: John Fletcher) CAT GER
The Riddle Song (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FRE
The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
The ship of Rio (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
The shooting of his dear (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
The sight entrancing (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
The soldier and the sailor (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT
The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT DUT DUT FRE GER
The sun shines down (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
The sycamore tree (Text: Volkslieder )
The trees they grow so high (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT GER
Tit for tat (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
To lie flat on the back (Text: W. H. Auden)
Tom Bowling (Text: Charles Dibdin) CAT FRE
Tradition (Text: William Soutar)
Turn then thine eyes (Text: Elkanah Settle)
Um Mitternacht (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT CHI ENG FRE SPA
Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) GER
Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) GER
Vigil (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
Virtue in deeds not words (Text: Philip James Bailey) CAT
Voici le printemps (Text: Volkslieder )
Wandering Willie (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER
We sing to him (Text: Nathaniel Ingelo)
What can we poor females do? CAT GER HEB
What's in your mind? (Text: W. H. Auden)
When Myra sings (Text: George Granville, Lord Lansdowne) CAT
When you're feeling like expressing your affection (Text: W. H. Auden)
Wild with passion (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes) CAT GER

op. 3. A Boy was Born
op. 7. Friday Afternoons
op. 8. Our Hunting Fathers
op. 11. On This Island
op. 14. Ballad of Heroes
op. 18. Les Illuminations ENG CHI SPA CHI JPN
op. 22. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo SPA ENG FRE LIT
op. 28. A Ceremony of Carols GER FRE
op. 31. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings FRE SPA
op. 35. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne GER FRE
op. 40. Canticle I (My beloved is mine) (Text: Francis Quarles) FRE
op. 41. A Charm of Lullabies GER
op. 44. Spring Symphony
op. 46. A Wedding Anthem (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
op. 51. Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac) (Text: Anonymous) FRE
op. 52. Winter words FRE
op. 53. Choral Dances from Gloriana (Text: William Charles Franklyn Plomer, CBE) *
op. 55. Canticle III (Still falls the Rain) (Text: Edith Sitwell)
op. 56b. Antiphon (Text: George Herbert)
op. 58. Songs from the Chinese
op. 60. Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra CAT
op. 61. Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente ENG CAT FRE
op. 66. War Requiem
op. 74. Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
op. 75. Voices for Today [x]
op. 76. Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta ENG FRE
op. 82. Kinderkreuzzug (Text: Bertolt Brecht) ENG
op. 84. Who are these children?
op. 86. Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
op. 89. Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus) (Text: T. S. Eliot) * FRE
op. 91. Sacred and Profane: Eight Medieval Lyrics
op. 92. A Birthday Hansel

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