Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by I. Venables

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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) *
• 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 Opus order

• op. 6. Midnight Lamentation (Text: Harold Monro)
• op. 10. Pain (Text: Ivor Gurney)
• op. 15. A Kiss (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• op. 16. Easter Song (Text: Edgar Billingham) [x]*
• op. 20. At The Court of the Poisoned Rose (Text: Marion Angus)
• op. 22. Venetian Songs - Love's Voice
  • 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)
• op. 24. At Malvern (Text: John Addington Symonds)
• op. 28. Two Songs
  • no. 1. Flying crooked (Text: Robert Graves) *
  • no. 2. At Midnight (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• op. 30. Acton Burnell (Text: Rennie Parker) [x]*
• op. 31. Invite to Eternity
  • 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
• op. 33. Six Songs
  • no. 1. The Way Through (Text: Jennifer Andrews) [x]*
  • no. 2. It Rains (Text: Edward Thomas)
  • no. 3. Vitae Summa Brevis (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
  • no. 4. The November Piano (Text: Charles Bennett) [x]*
  • no. 5. Break, break, break (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER
  • no. 6. The Hippo (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• op. 36. Songs of Eternity and Sorrow
  • 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)
• op. 37. Songs for Soprano and Piano
  • no. 1. Love Lives Beyond (Text: John Clare) GER
  • no. 2. Friendship (Text: Elizabeth Jennings) [x]*
  • no. 3. Aurelia (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• op. 38. On The Wings of Love
  • 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) *
  • no. 5. When you are Old (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA
• op. 39. The Pine Boughs Past Music
  • 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) *
• op. 40. Remember This (Text: Andrew Motion) *
• op. 41. Songs
  • no. 1. Cut Grass (Text: Philip Larkin) *
  • no. 2. Frutta di Mare (Text: Geoffrey Scott)
  • no. 3. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Text: Francis William Bourdillon) GER RUS
  • no. 4. In a Parlor Containing a Table (Text: Galway Kinnell) *
  • no. 5. The Little Old Cupid (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • no. 6. Chamber Music (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • no. 7. On Eastnor Knoll (Text: John Masefield)
  • no. 8. What Then? (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• op. 43. Songs of the Severn
  • 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)
• op. 45. Songs
  • no. 1. I caught the changes of the year (Text: John Drinkwater)
• op. 46. Through These Pale Cold Days
  • 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)
• op. 50. The Last Invocation
  • 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

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