Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Quilter

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Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)

Ronald Quinton [pseudonym]

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Drei Shakespeare-Lieder

no. 1. Komm herbei, Tod! (Text: August Wilhelm Schlegel after William Shakespeare) CAT DUT DUT DUT ENG FIN FRE FRE ITA ITA NOR NOR POL SPA SWE
no. 2. O Liebste mein (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after William Shakespeare) [x] FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
no. 3. Stürm, stürm, du Winterwind (Text: August Wilhelm Schlegel after William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE ITA ITA RUS SWE

Englische Lyrik, Fünf Lieder mit Klavierbegleitung

no. 1. Nacht-Gesang (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Alfred Tennyson, Lord) [x] CAT SPA
no. 2. Liebes-Philosophie (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Percy Bysshe Shelley) [x] CZE FRE FRE POL RUS
no. 3. An die Massliebchen (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Robert Herrick) [x]
no. 4. Wein' nicht mehr' (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] FRE
no. 5. Es war ein Knabe und sein Liebe (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after William Shakespeare) [x] FIN FRE

Five English Love Lyrics, op. 24

no. 1. There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
no. 2. Morning Song (Text: Thomas Heywood)
no. 3. Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
no. 4. O, the month of May (Text: Thomas Dekker)
no. 5. The time of roses (Text: Thomas Hood)

Five Jacobean Lyrics, op. 28

no. 1. The jealous lover (Text: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester)
no. 2. Why so pale and wan? (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
no. 3. I dare not ask a kiss (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
no. 4. To Althea, from prison (Text: Richard Lovelace) GER
no. 5. The constant lover (Text: John Suckling, Sir)

Five Lyics of Robert Herrick, op. 7

no. 1. Cupid (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. A dirge (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. Morning song (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. To Electra (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
no. 5. To violets (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA

Five Shakespeare Songs (Second Set), op. 23

no. 1. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
no. 2. Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER GER
no. 3. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
no. 4. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
no. 5. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE

Four Child Songs, op. 5

no. 1. A good child (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE
no. 2. The Lamplighter (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
no. 3. Where go the boats? (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
no. 4. Foreign children (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA

Four Shakespeare Songs (Third Set), op. 30

no. 1. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
no. 2. When daffodils begin to peer (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
no. 3. How should I your true love know [multi-text setting] (Text: Shakespeare) FRE ITA GER POL ENG
no. 4. Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL

Four songs of Mirza Schaffy, op. 2

no. 1. Neig' schöne Knospe dich zu mir (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ⊗ ENG ENG FRE RUS
no. 1. Lean, opening blossom, down towards me (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) FRE GER RUS
no. 2. Und was die Sonne glüht (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ⊗ ENG FRE RUS
no. 2. Where'er the sun doth glow (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) FRE GER RUS
no. 3. Ich fühle deinen Odem (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ⊗ ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS SPA SWE
no. 3. I feel thy soul's dear presence (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) FRE GER RUS SPA SWE
no. 4. Die helle Sonne leuchtet (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh) ⊗ ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS
no. 4. The dazzling sun is glistening (Text: Walter Creighton after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) FRE GER RUS

Four Songs of the Sea, op. 1

no. 1. I have a friend (Text: Roger Quilter)
no. 2. The sea-bird (Text: Roger Quilter)
no. 3. Moonlight (Text: Roger Quilter)
no. 4. By the sea (Text: Roger Quilter)

Love and the Countess [operetta]

Island of Dreams (Text: Roger Quilter) [x]*

Love at the Inn [operetta]

If love should pass me by (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett) [x]

Rosmé [operetta]

Love calls through the summer night (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett)

Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, op. 12

no. 1. Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
no. 2. My life's delight (Text: Thomas Campion) FRE
no. 3. Damask roses
no. 4. The faithless shepherdess (Text: Anonymous) FRE
no. 5. Brown is my Love (Text: Anonymous) GER
no. 6. By a fountainside (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 7. Fair house of joy (Text: Anonymous)

Songs of Sorrow, op. 10

no. 1. A Coronal (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) CHI
no. 2. Passing dreams (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
no. 3. A Land Of Silence (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
no. 4. In spring (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)

The Arnold Book of Old Songs

no. 1. Drink to me only with thine eyes (Text: Ben Jonson after Lucius Flavius Philostratus) ⊗ GER
no. 2. Over the mountains (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
no. 3. My Lady Greensleeves (Text: John Irvine)
no. 4. Believe me if all those endearing young charms (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
no. 5. Oh! 'tis sweet to think (Text: Thomas Moore)
no. 6. Ye banks and braes (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER IRI
no. 7. Charlie is my darling (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
no. 8. Ca' the yowes to the knowes (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
no. 9. The man behind the plough (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 9. Le pauvre laboureur (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 10. L'amour de moi (Text: 15^th century) ENG
no. 10. My lady's garden (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 11. Joli moi de mai (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 11. Pretty month of May (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
no. 12. The jolly miller
no. 13. Barbara Allen (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 14. Three Poor Mariners [x]
no. 15. Since first I saw your face (Text: Anonymous)
no. 16. The Ash Grove (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Volkslieder ) ⊗

Three Blake Songs, op. 20

no. 1. Dream valley (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. The wild flower's song (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Daybreak (Text: William Blake) RUS

Three pastoral songs, op. 22

no. 1. I will go with my father a-ploughing (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil)
no. 2. Cherry Valley (Text: Joseph Campbell , as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) GER
no. 3. I wish and I wish (Text: Joseph Campbell)

Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set), op. 6

no. 1. Come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
no. 2. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
no. 3. Blow, blow thou winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE

Three songs from old English popular songs

no. 1. Drink to me only with thine eyes (Text: Ben Jonson after Lucius Flavius Philostratus) ⊗ GER
no. 2. Barbara Allen (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Over the mountains (Text: Volkslieder ) GER

To Julia, op. 8

no. 1. The bracelet (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. The maiden blush (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. To Daisies (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. The Night Piece (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Julia's hair (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 6. Cherry ripe (Text: Robert Herrick)

Two Partsongs

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
no. 2. To the virgins (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA

Two September Songs

no. 1. Through the sunny garden (Text: Mary Coleridge)
no. 2. The Valley and the Hill (Text: Mary Coleridge)

Two Shakespeare Songs (4^th set), op. 32

no. 1. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
no. 2. When icicles hang (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS

Two Songs

no. 1. Come back! (Text: Roger Quilter)
no. 2. A secret (Text: Roger Quilter)

Two Songs

no. 1. Come spring! Sweet spring (Text: Roger Quilter , as Ronald Quinton) [x]
no. 2. The reign of the stars (Text: Roger Quilter , as Ronald Quinton) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

A London spring (Text: Julian Sturgis) [x]
An die Massliebchen (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Robert Herrick) [x]
April love (Text: Roger Quilter) *
A secret (Text: Roger Quilter)
A song at parting (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
A song of freedom (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett) [x]
At close of day (Text: Laurence Binyon)
Barbara Allen (Text: Volkslieder )
Believe me if all those endearing young charms (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Blossom-time (Text: Nora Hopper)
Ca' the yowes to the knowes (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
Charlie is my darling (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
Come back! (Text: Roger Quilter)
Come Lady-Day (Text: May Pemberton)
Come spring! Sweet spring (Text: Roger Quilter , as Ronald Quinton) [x]
Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
Daisies after the rain (Text: Judith Bickle)
Drink to me only with thine eyes (Text: Ben Jonson after Lucius Flavius Philostratus) ⊗ GER
Drooping wings (Text: Edith Sterling Levis) *
Es war ein Knabe und sein Liebe (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after William Shakespeare) [x] FIN FRE
Fairy lullaby (Text: Roger Quilter)
Fairy lullaby (Text: Roger Quilter)
Far, far away (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Freedom (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett) [x]
Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
Hark, hark! the lark (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA
Hymn for victory (Text: A. P. Herbert) [x]
If love should pass me by (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett) [x]
If thou would'st ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes) CAT
I got a robe (Text: Volkslieder )
Island of Dreams (Text: Roger Quilter) [x]*
Joli moi de mai (Text: Anonymous) ENG
June (Text: Nora Hopper) SPA
Komm herbei, Tod! (Text: August Wilhelm Schlegel after William Shakespeare) CAT DUT DUT DUT ENG FIN FRE FRE ITA ITA NOR NOR POL SPA SWE
L'amour de moi (Text: 15^th century) ENG
Lead us, heavenly Father (Text: James Edmeston)
Le pauvre laboureur (Text: Anonymous) ENG
Liebes-Philosophie (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Percy Bysshe Shelley) [x] CZE FRE FRE POL RUS
Love calls through the summer night (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett)
Love is a babel (Text: Anonymous)
Mond, Du bist glücklicher als ich (Text: Anonymous)
Music and moonlight (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Music (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
My heart adorned with thee (Text: Roger Quilter after Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt) * FRE GER RUS
My Lady Greensleeves (Text: John Irvine)
My lady's garden (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Nacht-Gesang (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Alfred Tennyson, Lord) [x] CAT SPA
Non Nobis, Domine! (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Oh! 'tis sweet to think (Text: Thomas Moore)
O Liebste mein (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after William Shakespeare) [x] FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
One word is too often profaned (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
Over the mountains (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
Pretty month of May (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Should one of us remember (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Since first I saw your face (Text: Anonymous)
Slumber song (Text: Clifford Mills)
Spring voices (Text: Roger Quilter , as Romney Marsh) [x]*
Stürm, stürm, du Winterwind (Text: August Wilhelm Schlegel after William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE ITA ITA RUS SWE
Summer sunset (Text: Roger Quilter , as Romney Marsh) *
Tell me where is fancy bred (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DUT FRE GER ITA
The answer (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
The Ash Grove (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Volkslieder ) ⊗
The cradle in Bethlehem (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett)
The jolly miller
The man behind the plough (Text: Harry Rodney Bennett , as Rodney Bennett after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
The passing bell (Text: Winnifred Tasker) [x]
The reign of the stars (Text: Roger Quilter , as Ronald Quinton) [x]
The Rose of Tralee (Text: C. Mordaunt Spencer) ITA
The walled-in garden (Text: Arthur Heald) [x]
Three Poor Mariners [x]
'Tis Saint Valentine's Day (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER GER GER
To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
To the virgins (Text: Robert Herrick) SPA
Trollie lollie laughter (Text: Victor Neuberg) [x]
Tulips (Text: Robert Herrick)
Verses from 'The Rubāiyat of Omar Khayām (Text: E. A. Johnson after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗
Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
Wein' nicht mehr' (Text: Ida Goldschmidt, née Livingston after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x] FRE
What will you do, Love? (Text: Samuel Lover)
Where the bee sucks (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER SPA SWE
Wild cherry (Text: Olive Mary Denson)
Wind from the south (Text: John Irvine) [x]
Windy nights (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE GER
Ye banks and braes (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER IRI

op. 1. Four Songs of the Sea
op. 2. Four songs of Mirza Schaffy
op. 3. Three songs
op. 5. Four Child Songs
op. 6. Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set)
op. 7. Five Lyics of Robert Herrick
op. 8. To Julia
op. 10. Songs of Sorrow
op. 12. Seven Elizabethan Lyrics
op. 14. Four Songs
op. 15. Three Songs
op. 18. Six songs
op. 20. Three Blake Songs
op. 22. Three pastoral songs
op. 23. Five Shakespeare Songs (Second Set)
op. 24. Five English Love Lyrics
op. 25. Six songs
op. 26. Two songs
op. 28. Five Jacobean Lyrics
op. 29. I arise from dreams of thee (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
op. 30. Four Shakespeare Songs (Third Set)
op. 32. Two Shakespeare Songs (4^th set)

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