Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach

no. 1. Chanson de Barberine (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG
no. 2. Chanson de Fortunio (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG ENG RUS SWE
no. 3. Cantate de Bettine (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG

5 poesie romanesche, op. 131

no. 1. Sogni (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
no. 2. Palloncini (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
no. 3. Piove (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
no. 4. Grandine (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
no. 5. Er treno (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *

Drei Heine-Lieder

no. 1. Der goldene Stern (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT ENG ENG FRE RUS
no. 2. Fallender Stern (Text: Heinrich Heine) CHI DUT ENG FRE FRE FRE HEB
no. 3. Die Sternensprache (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE POL RUS

Due preghiere per i bimbi d'Italia

no. 1. Preghiera del mattino (Text: Luigi Bertelli)
no. 2. Preghiera della sera (Text: Luigi Bertelli)

Four Christina Rossetti Settings

My heart is like a singing bird (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Sing no sad songs for me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
Remember me (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER ITA

Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali

no. 1. Non al suo amante piú Dïana piacque (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG
no. 2. Perch'al viso d'Amor portava insegna (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG
no. 3. Nova angeletta sovra l'ale accorta (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG

Quattro scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi

no. 1. La pastorella (Text: Anonymous) SPA
no. 4. Ballatella (Text: Anonymous) SPA

Romancero Gitano (The Gypsy Ballads) ENG

no. 1. Baladilla de los tres ríos (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE GER
no. 2. La guitarra (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE RUS
no. 3. Puñal (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
no. 4. Procesión (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
no. 5. Memento (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
no. 6. Baile (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE GER GER
no. 7. Crótalo (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG

Shakespeare Songs, Book I

no. 2. Fancy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA

Shakespeare Songs, Book II

no. 1. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
no. 2. Winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE

Shakespeare Songs, Book III

no. 1. Orpheus (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
no. 2. Silvia (Text: Eduard von Bauernfeld after William Shakespeare) CAT DUT DUT ENG FIN FRE ITA ITA SPA SPA
no. 3. For the rain it raineth every day (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE

Shakespeare Songs, Book IV

no. 1. Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
no. 2. Seals of love (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
no. 3. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL

Shakespeare Songs, Book V

no. 2. The willow (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
no. 3. Roundel (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

Shakespeare Songs, Book VI

no. 1. Apemantus's grace (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 2. Arise! (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA
no. 3. The soldier drinks (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER

Shakespeare Songs, Book VII

no. 3. The cuckoo and the owl [multi-text setting] (Text: Shakespeare) FRE GER RUS FIN NOR

Shakespeare Songs, Book VIII

no. 1. The pedlar (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
no. 2. Come to dust (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
no. 3. Two maids wooing a man (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

Shakespeare Songs, Book IX

no. 1. Merry heart (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
no. 2. Heavily (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE
no. 3. The horn (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER

stelle cadenti

no. 1. Oh! quanto siete pallida nel viso! (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. Fior d'erba secca (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Mi vo' far fare una casina in piazza (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. M'affaccio alla finestra e vedo l'onde (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Fiorin di pepe (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 6. Sono stata all'appalto a pigliar sale (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 7. Fiorin d'alloro (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 8. Vado di notte come va la luna (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
no. 9. Oh! come fa la donna contadina (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 10. Sono stato all'inferno, e son tornato (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 11. Ho visto la Sirena in mezzo al mare (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 12. Quando, bellino, al cielo salirai (Text: Volkslieder ) GER

Three Sephardic songs = שלשה שירים ספרדיים = Trois mélodies sephardiques

no. 1. Montañas altas (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Ven y verás (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Una noche alunar (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, op. 42

The sweet sad years (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
Letters (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
Poems and flowers (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Am Leuchtturm, op. 60 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE ITA
Am Teetisch, op. 40 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE FRE GRE
Apemantus's grace (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VI) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Arise! (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VI) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA
Baile (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE GER GER
Baladilla de los tres ríos (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE GER
Ballade des biens immeubles, op. 68 (Text: André Gide)
Ballatella (in Quattro scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi) (Text: Anonymous) SPA
Benedetto sia 'l giorno e 'l mese e l'anno, op. 74a (Due sonetti del Petrarca) no. 2 (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG FRE FRE GER LIT RUS RUS SPA
Cadix, op. 45 (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) CHI ENG ENG GER
Cantate de Bettine (in 1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach) (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG
Chanson de Barberine (in 1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach) (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG
Chanson de Fortunio (in 1830, trois chansons par Alfred de Musset mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach) (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG ENG RUS SWE
Come to dust (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VIII) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
Crótalo (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG
Der goldene Stern (in Drei Heine-Lieder) (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT ENG ENG FRE RUS
Der wunderbare Traum, op. 60 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 3 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE RUS
Die Sternensprache (in Drei Heine-Lieder) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE POL RUS
Endymion (Text: John Keats)
Er treno, op. 131 no. 5 (in 5 poesie romanesche) (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
Étoile filante (Text: Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry , as Georges Jean-Aubry)
Fallender Stern (in Drei Heine-Lieder) (Text: Heinrich Heine) CHI DUT ENG FRE FRE FRE HEB
Fancy (in Shakespeare Songs, Book I) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
Fior d'erba secca (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Fiorin d'alloro (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Fiorin di pepe (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
For the rain it raineth every day (in Shakespeare Songs, Book III) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
Grandine, op. 131 no. 4 (in 5 poesie romanesche) (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
Happy is England! (Text: John Keats)
Heavily (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IX) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE FRE
Ho visto la Sirena in mezzo al mare (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Indian Serenade (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
Kinderspiele, op. 60 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE
La barba bianca (Text: Luigi Bertelli)
La guitarra (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE RUS
La pastorella (in Quattro scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi) (Text: Anonymous) SPA
Letters, op. 42 no. ? (in Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
L'infinito, op. 22 (Text: Giacomo Leopardi) ENG GER SPA
Louisiana (Text: Walt Whitman)
M'affaccio alla finestra e vedo l'onde (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Memento (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
Merry heart (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IX) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
Mi vo' far fare una casina in piazza (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Montañas altas (in Three Sephardic songs = שלשה שירים ספרדיים = Trois mélodies sephardiques) (Text: Anonymous)
Music on the Waters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
My heart is like a singing bird (in Four Christina Rossetti Settings) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Nature, op. 149 (Two Longfellow Songs) no. ? (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ninna nanna (Text: Ugo Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
Non al suo amante piú Dïana piacque (in Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali) (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG
Nova angeletta sovra l'ale accorta (in Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali) (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG
Oh! come fa la donna contadina (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Oh! quanto siete pallida nel viso! (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Old Song, op. 24 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
O mistress mine (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IV) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
Ore sole, op. 52 (Text: Aldo Palazzeschi) [x]*
Orpheus (in Shakespeare Songs, Book III) (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
Palloncini, op. 131 no. 2 (in 5 poesie romanesche) (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
Perch'al viso d'Amor portava insegna (in Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali) (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG
Piove, op. 131 no. 3 (in 5 poesie romanesche) (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
Poems and flowers, op. 42 no. ? (in Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
Preghiera della sera (in Due preghiere per i bimbi d'Italia) (Text: Luigi Bertelli)
Preghiera del mattino (in Due preghiere per i bimbi d'Italia) (Text: Luigi Bertelli)
Procesión (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
Puñal (in Romancero Gitano) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG FRE
Quando, bellino, al cielo salirai (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
Recuerdo (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Remember me (in Four Christina Rossetti Settings) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER ITA
Roundel (in Shakespeare Songs, Book V) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Seals of love (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IV) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
Sera (Text: Dante Alighieri)
Sigh no more, ladies (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IV) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
Silvia (in Shakespeare Songs, Book III) (Text: Eduard von Bauernfeld after William Shakespeare) CAT DUT DUT ENG FIN FRE ITA ITA SPA SPA
Sing no sad songs for me (in Four Christina Rossetti Settings) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
Sogni, op. 131 no. 1 (in 5 poesie romanesche) (Text: Mario Dell'Arco) *
Sommerabend, op. 40 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 2 (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG ENG FRE FRE
Sonnet VIII - Music to hear, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE HUN ITA RUS
Sonnet XVIII - Shall I compare, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
Sonnet XXVII - Weary with toil, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 25 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
Sonnet XXIX - When in disgrace, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE ITA
Sonnet XXX - When to the sessions, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 4 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA RUS
Sonnet XXXI - Thy bosom, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 5 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XXXII - If thou survive, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 6 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XXXV - No more be grieved, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XL - Take all my loves, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XLVII - Betwixt mine eye, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 4 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet LIII - What is your substance, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 7 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet LVII - Being your slave, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 8 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet LX - Like as the waves, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 9 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA POL
Sonnet LXIV - When I have seen, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 10 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
Sonnet LXV - Since brass, nor stone, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 11 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Sonnet LXXI - No longer mourn for me, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 3 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER HUN ITA RUS
Sonnet LXXIII - That time of year, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 12 (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE FRI HUN ITA RUS RUS
Sonnet LXXXVII - Farewell!, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 13 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XC - Then hate me when thou wilt, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 14 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
Sonnet XCIV - They that have power, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 2 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
Sonnet XCVII - How like the winter, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 15 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet XCVIII - From you have I been absent, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 16 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
Sonnet CII - My love is strengthen'd, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 17 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA RUS
Sonnet CIV - To me, fair friend, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 18 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE ITA
Sonnet CV - Let not my love, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 19 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Sonnet CVI - When in the chronicles, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 20 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
Sonnet CIX - O never say that I was false, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 21 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE RUS
Sonnet CXVI - Let me not to the marriage, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 22 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER GER ITA
Sonnet CXXVIII - How oft, when thou my music, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 23 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
Sonnet CXXIX - Th'expense of Spirit, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 2 no. 2 (Text: William Shakespeare) CZE CZE FRE GER
Sonnet CXLVI - Poor soul, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 1 no. 24 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
Sonnet CLIV - The little Love-God, op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 3 no. 1 (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE POL
Sono stata all'appalto a pigliar sale (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
Sono stato all'inferno, e son tornato (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder )
The cuckoo and the owl [multi-text setting] (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VII) (Text: Shakespeare) NOR FIN RUS GER FRE
The day is done, op. 149 (Two Longfellow Songs) no. ? (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
The dove (Text: John Keats)
The fountains mingle, op. 173 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
The horn (in Shakespeare Songs, Book IX) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
The Moon, op. 154 no. 7 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
The owl (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER
The pedlar (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VIII) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
The soldier drinks (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VI) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
The sweet sad years, op. 42 no. ? (in Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
The willow (in Shakespeare Songs, Book V) (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
To one who has been long in city pent (Text: John Keats) ITA
To Sleep (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
Two maids wooing a man (in Shakespeare Songs, Book VIII) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Two or three (Text: John Keats)
Una noche alunar (in Three Sephardic songs = שלשה שירים ספרדיים = Trois mélodies sephardiques) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Under the greenwood tree (in Shakespeare Songs, Book II) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
Upon Westminster Bridge (Text: William Wordsworth)
Vado di notte come va la luna (in stelle cadenti) (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
Ven y verás (in Three Sephardic songs = שלשה שירים ספרדיים = Trois mélodies sephardiques) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Villa sola (Text: A. Carocci) [x]
Winter wind (in Shakespeare Songs, Book II) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
With silence and tears (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CHI FRE
Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena, op. 74a (Due sonetti del Petrarca) no. 1 (Text: Francesco Petrarca) ENG FRE
Zu Halle auf dem Markt, op. 40 (Drei Heine-Lieder) no. 1 (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE

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