Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Finzi

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Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Young Man's Exhortation, op. 14

no. 1. A young man's exhortation (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
no. 2. Budmouth Dears (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Ditty (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Her temple (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Shortening days (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. The sigh (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. Transformations (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. The dance continued (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Before and After Summer, op. 16

no. 1. Childhood among the ferns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Before and after summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The self-unseeing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Overlooking the river (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Channel firing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. In the mind's eye (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. The too short time (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Epeisodia (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. Amabel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. He abjures love (Text: Thomas Hardy)

By Footpath and Stile, op. 2

no. 1. Paying calls (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The master and the leaves (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Voices from things growing in a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Exeunt omnes (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Dies Natalis, op. 8

no. 1. Intrada
no. 2. Rhapsody (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 3. The Rapture (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 4. Wonder (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 5. The Salutation (Text: Thomas Traherne)

Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15

no. 1. Summer schemes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. When I set out for Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Waiting both (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
no. 4. The phantom (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. So I have fared (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. To Lizbie Browne (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. The clock of the years (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. In a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE

Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost, op. 28a

no. 1. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
no. 4. False Concolinel

Intimations of Immortality, op. 29

no. 1. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 2. The Rainbow comes and goes (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 3. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 4. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 5. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 7. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 8. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 9. O joy! that in our embers (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 11. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (Text: William Wordsworth)

I said to love, op. 19b

no. 1. I need not go (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Two lips (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. In five-score summers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. For Life I had never cared greatly (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. I said to Love (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18

no. 1. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER

Oh fair to see, op. 13b

no. 1. I say I'll seek her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Oh, fair to see (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 3. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
no. 4. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
no. 5. To joy (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
no. 6. Harvest (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
no. 7. Since we loved (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Requiem da Camera

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. from 'August 1914' (Text: John Masefield)
no. 3. Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
no. 4. Lament (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)

Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs, op. 17

no. 1. I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
no. 2. I have loved flowers that fade (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 3. My spirit sang all day (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
no. 4. Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Nightingales (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 6. Haste on, my joys! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Wherefore to-night so full of care (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

The Mound

no. 1. The Night of the Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Three Short Elegies, op. 5

no. 1. Life a right shadow is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
no. 2. This world a hunting is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
no. 3. This life, which seems so fair (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) GER

Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a

no. 1. Let me enjoy the Earth (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. In years defaced (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. I look into my glass (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. It never looks like summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. At a lunar eclipse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. Life laughs onward (Text: Thomas Hardy)

To a poet, op. 13a

no. 1. To a poet a thousand years hence (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
no. 2. On parent knees (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
no. 3. Intrada (Text: Thomas Traherne)
no. 4. The birthnight (Text: Walter De la Mare)
no. 5. June on Castle Hill (Text: Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
no. 6. Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia (Text: George Granville Barker) *

Two Songs

no. 1. English Hills (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
no. 2. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)

Two Sonnets, op. 12

no. 1. When I consider how my life is spent (Text: John Milton) GER HUN ITA
no. 2. How soon hath Time (Text: John Milton)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

A cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
Afterwards (Text: Thomas Hardy)
A linnet in a gilded cage (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A merrymaking in question (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At news of a woman's death (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Boy Johnny (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
By the earth's corpse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Days too short (Text: William Henry Davies)
Dead in the cold (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
During wind and rain (Text: Thomas Hardy)
English Hills (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
from 'August 1914' (Text: John Masefield)
God-forgotten (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Great things (Text: Thomas Hardy)
He fears his good fortune (Text: Thomas Hardy)
I am the one (Text: Thomas Hardy)
I found her out there (Text: Thomas Hardy)
June leaves and autumn (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Lament (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
Lullaby, oh lullaby! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Margaret has a milking-pail (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Middle-age enthusiasms (Text: Thomas Hardy)
News for her mother (Text: Thomas Hardy)
O dear me! (Text: Walter De la Mare)
On a discarded curl of hair (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
Prelude
Rondel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
Rosy maiden Winifred (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
So various (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Tall nettles (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
The Battle (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
The Cupboard (Text: Robert Graves)
The end of the episode (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The faithful swallow (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The lily has a smooth stalk (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) SPA
The Mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Night of the Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Preparative (Text: Thomas Traherne) [x]
The Reed Player (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
There's snow on the fields (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Temporary the All (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The terrible robber men (Text: Padraic Colum)
The Twilit Waters (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
Thou didst delight my eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Timing her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Yell'ham-Wood's story (Text: Thomas Hardy)

op. 2. By Footpath and Stile
op. 5. Three Short Elegies
op. 8. Dies Natalis
op. 9. Farewell to Arms [multi-text setting] (Text: Peele, Knevet)
op. 12. Two Sonnets
op. 13a. To a poet
op. 13b. Oh fair to see
op. 14. A Young Man's Exhortation
op. 15. Earth and Air and Rain
op. 16. Before and After Summer
op. 17. Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs
op. 18. Let Us Garlands Bring
op. 19a. Till Earth Outwears
op. 19b. I said to love
op. 26. Lo, the full, final Sacrifice
op. 27.
op. 28a. Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost
op. 29. Intimations of Immortality
op. 30. For St. Cecilia (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
op. 33. All this night (Text: William Austin)
op. 35. Let us now praise famous men (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
op. 37. White-flowering days (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
op. 39. In terra pax [multi-text setting] (Text: Bridges, Bible or other Sacred Texts)

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