Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Rawsthorne

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Esquisses
• no. 1. Green, green, the grass by the river-bank (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 2. Waltz (Text: Arthur Waley after Mei Cheng) ⊗
• no. 3. Polka (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Four Settings of Poems by Richard Church
• no. 1. Summer night music (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• no. 2. The wind from the south (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• no. 3. July Sabbath (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• no. 4. Spirit of Love (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• Practical Cats
• The Song of the Jellicles (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Old Deuteronomy (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Gus: The Theatre Cat (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• The Old Gumbie Cat (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• The Naming of Cats (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book') [multi-composer]
• no. 1. Prelude: Sechs Schritte her, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)
• no. 2. Song, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)
• no. 3. Interlude, composed by Alan Rawsthorne (Text: Ernst Toller)
• no. 4. Über mir, composed by Alan Rawsthorne (Text: Ernst Toller)
• no. 5. Postlude: Sechs Schritte her, composed by Alan Dudley Bush (Text: Ernst Toller)
• Three French Nursery-Songs
• no. 1. Je suis un petit poupon (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 2. Il pleut, il pleut, bergère (Text: Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine)
• no. 3. Fais do-do, Pierrot (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Away, delights (Text: John Fletcher)
• no. 2. God Lyaeus (Text: John Fletcher)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Away, delights (in Two Songs) (Text: John Fletcher)
• Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE FRE FRE SPA SWE
• Fain would I change that note (Text: Anonymous)
• Fais do-do, Pierrot (in Three French Nursery-Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• God Lyaeus (in Two Songs) (Text: John Fletcher)
• Green, green, the grass by the river-bank (in Esquisses) (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Gus: The Theatre Cat (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Il pleut, il pleut, bergère (in Three French Nursery-Songs) (Text: Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine)
• Interlude (in Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book')) (Text: Ernst Toller)
• Je suis un petit poupon (in Three French Nursery-Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• July Sabbath (in Four Settings of Poems by Richard Church) (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• Le moulin (Text: Émile Verhaeren)
• Nous étions trois filles (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Old Deuteronomy (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• Polka (in Esquisses) (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Precursors (Text: Louis MacNeice)
• Spirit of Love (in Four Settings of Poems by Richard Church) (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• Summer night music (in Four Settings of Poems by Richard Church) (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• The enemy speaks (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
• The Naming of Cats (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• The Old Gumbie Cat (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Song of the Jellicles (in Practical Cats) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]*
• The wind from the south (in Four Settings of Poems by Richard Church) (Text: Richard Thomas Church, CBE) [x]*
• To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
• Two fish (Text: Joshua Sylvester after Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur du Bartas) [x] ⊗
• Tzu-Yeh Songs (Text: Arthur Waley after Tzu Yeh Shi) ⊗
• Über mir (in Prison Cycle (Pages from 'The Swallow Book')) (Text: Ernst Toller)
• Waltz (in Esquisses) (Text: Arthur Waley after Mei Cheng) ⊗

Last update: 2025-04-30 23:42:29