Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by I. Venables

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Ian Venables (b. 1955)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Invite to Eternity, op. 31

no. 1. Born upon an angel's breast (Text: John Clare) GER
no. 2. An Invite, to Eternity (Text: John Clare)
no. 3. Evening bells (Text: John Clare)
no. 4. I am (Text: John Clare) GER

On The Wings of Love, op. 38

no. 1. Ionian Song (Text: George Barbanis after Constantine P. Cavafy) ⊗*
no. 2. The Moon Sails Out (Text: Robert Bly after Federico García Lorca) * FRE GER
no. 3. Sonnet XI (Text: Gilbert Farm Cunningham after Jean de Sponde)
no. 4. Epitaph (Text: Royston Lambert after Publius Aelius Hadrianus) * DUT
no. 5. When you are Old (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA

Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, op. 36

no. 1. Easter Hymn (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
no. 2. When green buds hang in the elm like dust (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. Oh who is that young sinner? (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 4. Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)

Songs of the Severn, op. 43

no. 1. On Malvern Hill (Text: John Masefield)
no. 2. How Clear, How Lovely Bright (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
no. 3. Elgar’s Music (Text: John Drinkwater)
no. 4. Lauugh and be merry (Text: John Masefield)
no. 5. The River in December (Text: Philip Worner)

The Last Invocation, op. 50

no. 1. Shine! Shine! Shine! (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. Out of May’s Shows Selected (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. As at Thy Portals also Death (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. The Last Invocation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE

The Pine Boughs Past Music, op. 39

no. 1. My heart makes songs on lonely roads (Text: Ivor Gurney)
no. 2. Soft Rain (Text: Ivor Gurney)
no. 3. The Wind (Text: Ivor Gurney)
no. 4. In Memoriam : Ivor Gurney (Text: Leonard Clark) *

Through These Pale Cold Days, op. 46

no. 1. The Send‑Off (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
no. 2. Procrastination (Text: Francis St. Vincent Morris)
no. 3. Through these pale cold days (Text: Isaac Rosenberg)
no. 4. Suicide in the Trenches (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
no. 5. If You Forget (Text: Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy)

Venetian Songs - Love's Voice, op. 22

no. 1. Fortunate Isles (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 2. The passing stranger (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 3. The Invitation to the Gondola (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 4. Love's voice (Text: John Addington Symonds)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Acton Burnell, op. 30 (Text: Rennie Parker) [x]*
A Kiss, op. 15 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
An Invite, to Eternity, op. 31 no. 2 (in Invite to Eternity) (Text: John Clare)
As at Thy Portals also Death, op. 50 no. 3 (in The Last Invocation) (Text: Walt Whitman)
At Malvern, op. 24 (Text: John Addington Symonds)
At Midnight, op. 28 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
At The Court of the Poisoned Rose, op. 20 (Text: Marion Angus)
Aurelia, op. 37 (Songs for Soprano and Piano) no. 3 (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
Because I liked you better, op. 36 no. 4 (in Songs of Eternity and Sorrow) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Born upon an angel's breast, op. 31 no. 1 (in Invite to Eternity) (Text: John Clare) GER
Break, break, break, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 5 (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER
Chamber Music, op. 41 (Songs) no. 6 (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Cut Grass, op. 41 (Songs) no. 1 (Text: Philip Larkin) *
Easter Hymn, op. 36 no. 1 (in Songs of Eternity and Sorrow) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
Easter Song, op. 16 (Text: Edgar Billingham) [x]*
Elgar’s Music, op. 43 no. 3 (in Songs of the Severn) (Text: John Drinkwater)
Epitaph, op. 38 no. 4 (in On The Wings of Love) (Text: Royston Lambert after Publius Aelius Hadrianus) * DUT
Evening bells, op. 31 no. 3 (in Invite to Eternity) (Text: John Clare)
Flying crooked, op. 28 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Graves) *
Fortunate Isles, op. 22 no. 1 (in Venetian Songs - Love's Voice) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Friendship, op. 37 (Songs for Soprano and Piano) no. 2 (Text: Elizabeth Jennings) [x]*
Frutta di Mare, op. 41 (Songs) no. 2 (Text: Geoffrey Scott)
How Clear, How Lovely Bright, op. 43 no. 2 (in Songs of the Severn) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
I am, op. 31 no. 4 (in Invite to Eternity) (Text: John Clare) GER
I caught the changes of the year, op. 45 (Songs) no. 1 (Text: John Drinkwater)
If You Forget, op. 46 no. 5 (in Through These Pale Cold Days) (Text: Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy)
In a Parlor Containing a Table, op. 41 (Songs) no. 4 (Text: Galway Kinnell) *
In Memoriam : Ivor Gurney, op. 39 no. 4 (in The Pine Boughs Past Music) (Text: Leonard Clark) *
Ionian Song, op. 38 no. 1 (in On The Wings of Love) (Text: George Barbanis after Constantine P. Cavafy) ⊗*
It Rains, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 2 (Text: Edward Thomas)
Lauugh and be merry, op. 43 no. 4 (in Songs of the Severn) (Text: John Masefield)
Love Lives Beyond, op. 37 (Songs for Soprano and Piano) no. 1 (Text: John Clare) GER
Love's voice, op. 22 no. 4 (in Venetian Songs - Love's Voice) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Midnight Lamentation, op. 6 (Text: Harold Monro)
My heart makes songs on lonely roads, op. 39 no. 1 (in The Pine Boughs Past Music) (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Oh who is that young sinner?, op. 36 no. 3 (in Songs of Eternity and Sorrow) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
On Eastnor Knoll, op. 41 (Songs) no. 7 (Text: John Masefield)
On Malvern Hill, op. 43 no. 1 (in Songs of the Severn) (Text: John Masefield)
Out of May’s Shows Selected, op. 50 no. 2 (in The Last Invocation) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Pain, op. 10 (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Procrastination, op. 46 no. 2 (in Through These Pale Cold Days) (Text: Francis St. Vincent Morris)
Remember This, op. 40 (Text: Andrew Motion) *
Shine! Shine! Shine!, op. 50 no. 1 (in The Last Invocation) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Soft Rain, op. 39 no. 2 (in The Pine Boughs Past Music) (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Sonnet XI, op. 38 no. 3 (in On The Wings of Love) (Text: Gilbert Farm Cunningham after Jean de Sponde)
Suicide in the Trenches, op. 46 no. 4 (in Through These Pale Cold Days) (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
The Hippo, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 6 (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The Invitation to the Gondola, op. 22 no. 3 (in Venetian Songs - Love's Voice) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
The Last Invocation, op. 50 no. 4 (in The Last Invocation) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
The Little Old Cupid, op. 41 (Songs) no. 5 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The Moon Sails Out, op. 38 no. 2 (in On The Wings of Love) (Text: Robert Bly after Federico García Lorca) * FRE GER
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, op. 41 (Songs) no. 3 (Text: Francis William Bourdillon) GER RUS
The November Piano, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 4 (Text: Charles Bennett) [x]*
The passing stranger, op. 22 no. 2 (in Venetian Songs - Love's Voice) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
The River in December, op. 43 no. 5 (in Songs of the Severn) (Text: Philip Worner)
The Send‑Off, op. 46 no. 1 (in Through These Pale Cold Days) (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
The Way Through, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 1 (Text: Jennifer Andrews) [x]*
The Wind, op. 39 no. 3 (in The Pine Boughs Past Music) (Text: Ivor Gurney)
Through these pale cold days, op. 46 no. 3 (in Through These Pale Cold Days) (Text: Isaac Rosenberg)
Vitae Summa Brevis, op. 33 (Six Songs) no. 3 (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
What Then?, op. 41 (Songs) no. 8 (Text: William Butler Yeats)
When green buds hang in the elm like dust, op. 36 no. 2 (in Songs of Eternity and Sorrow) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
When you are Old, op. 38 no. 5 (in On The Wings of Love) (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA

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