Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by K. Leighton

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Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988)

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5 Shakespeare Songs

no. 1. Fear no more the heat of the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
no. 2. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
no. 3. Sigh no more Ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
no. 4. Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 5. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER

Laudes Animantium, op. 61

The Tyger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS

The Birds

The linnet (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The robin (Text: Thomas Hardy)

Three Carols, op. 25

no. 1. The star-song (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. An ode of the birth of our Saviour (Text: Robert Herrick)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A Christmas Caroll, op. 21 (Text: Robert Herrick)
Adventante Deo (Text: John Addington Symonds)
An ode of the birth of our Saviour , op. 25 no. 3 (in Three Carols) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Come away, death (in 5 Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
Fear no more the heat of the sun (in 5 Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child , op. 25 no. 2 (in Three Carols) (Text: Anonymous)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (in 5 Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
Sigh no more Ladies (in 5 Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
The linnet (in The Birds) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The robin (in The Birds) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The star-song, op. 25 no. 1 (in Three Carols) (Text: Robert Herrick)
The Tyger, op. 61 no. ? (in Laudes Animantium) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
Under the greenwood tree (in 5 Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER

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