Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Elgar

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Edward Elgar, Sir (1857 - 1934)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Cycle, op. 59

no. 3. Oh, soft was the song (Text: Gilbert Parker)
no. 5. Was it some Golden Star? (Text: Gilbert Parker)
no. 6. Twilight (Text: Gilbert Parker)

Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, op. 45

no. 1. Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 2. Whether I find thee bright with fair (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 3. "After many a dusty mile" (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 4. It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 5. Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ⊗

From the Bavarian Highlands, op. 27

no. 1. The dance (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 2. False love (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 3. Lullaby (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 4. Aspiration (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 5. On the alm (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 6. The marksmen (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)

Grania and Diarmid, op. 42

no. 3. There are seven that pull the thread (Text: William Butler Yeats)

King Olaf, op. 30

no. 1. Introduction (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 3. King Olaf's Return (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 4. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 5. The conversion (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 6. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 7. Gudrun (Scene) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 8. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 9. The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 10. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 11. Sigrid (Scene) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 12. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 13. Thyri (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 14. Duet (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 15. Choral recitative (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 16. The Death of Olaf (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 17. Epilogue (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT

Pageant of Empire

no. 1. Shakespeare's Kingdom (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
no. 2. The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 3. The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. 4. The Heart of Canada (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. 5. Sailing westward (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 6. Merchant adventurers (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 7. The Immortal Legions (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 8. A Song of Union (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]

Sea Pictures (Imatges del mar, translated by Salvador Pila) (Bilder vom Meer , translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 37 CAT GER

no. 1. Sea slumber song (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel) CAT GER ITA
no. 2. In Haven (Capri) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) CAT GER ITA
no. 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CAT GER GER ITA
no. 4. Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA
no. 5. The swimmer (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) CAT GER ITA

Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar

no. 1. Like to the damask rose (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
no. 1. Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
no. 2. Queen Mary's Song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
no. 2. Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 3. A song of Autumn (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
no. 3. Herbstlied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
no. 4. The Poet's Life (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
no. 4. Dichterleben (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
no. 5. Through the Long Days (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
no. 5. Tage und Jahre gehen (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
no. 6. Rondel (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) GER
no. 6. Rondel (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
no. 7. The shepherd's song (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER SPA
no. 7. Des Schäfers Lied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA

The Fringes of the Fleet

no. 1. The Lowestoft Boat (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 2. Fate's discourtesy (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 3. Submarines (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 4. The sweepers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 5. Inside the bar (Text: Gilbert Parker)

The Mill Wheel

no. 1. Winter (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
no. 2. May (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]

The Spirit of England

no. 1. The Fourth of August (Text: Laurence Binyon)
no. 2. To women (Text: Laurence Binyon)
no. 3. For the Fallen (Text: Laurence Binyon)

The Starlight Express, op. 78

no. 1. To the children (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 2. The Blue-Eyes Fairy (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 3. The curfew song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 4. The laugher (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 5. Come little winds (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 6. Tears and laughter (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 7. Dawn song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 8. My old tunes (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 9. Dandelions, daffodils (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 10. Laugh a little ev'ry day (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 11. The dawn (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 12. Oh, think Beauty (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

1588 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
A child asleep (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Always and Everywhere (Text: Frank H. Fortey after Zygmunt Krasiński)
A phylactery (Text: John Hay, Col.)
Arabian Serenade (Text: Margery Harriet Lawrence)
As I laye a-thynkynge (Text: Richard Harris Barham , as Thomas Ingoldsby)
A soldier's song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
A song of Autumn (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
A Song of Union (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
A spear, a sword (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
As torrents in summer (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER
A war song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
Big Steamers (Text: Rudyard Kipling) CZE
Callicles (Text: Matthew Arnold)
Clapham Town End (Text: Volkslieder )
Come, gentle night! (Text: Clifton Bingham)
Des Schäfers Lied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA
Dichterleben (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (Text: Henry King)
Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Evening scene
Fate's discourtesy (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Fear not, o land (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Fight for right (Text: William Morris)
Follow the colours (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
For the Fallen (Text: Laurence Binyon)
Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
Goodmorrow (Text: George Gascoigne)
Herbstlied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
How calmly the evening (Text: Thomas Toke Lynch)
If she love me [x]
In Moonlight (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE
Inside the bar (Text: Gilbert Parker)
Is she not passing fair? (Text: Louisa Stuart Costello after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
It isnae me (Text: Sally Holmes)
Land of Hope and Glory (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
Like to the damask rose (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
Love alone will stay (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
Marching song (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
May (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
Merchant adventurers (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
Modest and Fair (Text: Ben Jonson)
Muleteer's serenade (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
My love dwelt in a Northern land (Text: Andrew Lang) DUT
Over all this home-land of our fathers (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode (Text: John Masefield)
Queen Mary's Song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
Rondel (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Rondel (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
Sailing westward (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
Shakespeare's Kingdom (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
Speak, my heart (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
Still to be neat (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
Submarines (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Tage und Jahre gehen (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
Tarantella (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The brook (Text: Ellen Soule) [x]
The chariots of the Lord (Text: John Brownlie, D.D.)
The Fourth of August (Text: Laurence Binyon)
The Heart of Canada (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The herald (Text: Alexander Smith)
The Immortal Legions (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
The King's Way (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
The language of flowers (Text: James Gates Percival)
The Lowestoft Boat (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
The merry-go-round (Text: Florence C. Fox) [x]
The Pipes of Pan (Text: Adrian Ross)
The Poet's Life (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
The prince of sleep (Text: Walter De la Mare) DUT GER
The rapid stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
The self banished (Text: Edmund Waller)
The sweepers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
The wanderer
The wave (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
The wind at dawn (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
The woodland stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
They are at rest (Text: John Henry Newman)
To women (Text: Laurence Binyon)
Weary wind of the west (Text: T. E. Brown)
When swallows fly (Text: Charles Mackay)
Windlass song (Text: William Allingham)
Winter (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
XTC (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)
Zut! Zut! Zut! (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)

op. 16. Three Songs
op. 18.
op. 23. Spanish serenade (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
op. 25. The black knight (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Johann Ludwig Uhland) FRE
op. 26.
op. 27. From the Bavarian Highlands
op. 30. King Olaf
op. 31. Two Songs
op. 37. Sea Pictures CAT GER
op. 41. Two Songs
op. 42. Grania and Diarmid
op. 45. Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology
op. 48.
op. 52. A Christmas greeting (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
op. 53.
op. 54. The reveille (Text: Bret Harte)
op. 57. Go, song of mine (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
op. 59. Cycle
op. 60. Two Songs
op. 69. The music makers (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy) GER
op. 71.
op. 72. Death on the hills (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov)
op. 73.
op. 75. Carillon (Text: Émile Cammaerts)
op. 77. Une voix dans le désert (Text: Émile Cammaerts) ENG
op. 78. The Starlight Express
op. 79. Le drapeau belge (Text: Émile Cammaerts) [x]

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