Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Finzi
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- A Young Man's Exhortation, op. 14
- no. 1. A young man's exhortation (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
- no. 2. Budmouth Dears (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Ditty (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. Her temple (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Shortening days (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. The sigh (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. Transformations (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. The dance continued (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Before and After Summer, op. 16
- no. 1. Childhood among the ferns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Before and after summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The self-unseeing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. Overlooking the river (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. Channel firing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. In the mind's eye (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. The too short time (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. Epeisodia (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. Amabel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. He abjures love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- By Footpath and Stile, op. 2
- no. 1. Paying calls (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. The master and the leaves (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. Voices from things growing in a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Exeunt omnes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Dies Natalis, op. 8
- no. 1. Intrada
- no. 2. Rhapsody (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 3. The Rapture (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 4. Wonder (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 5. The Salutation (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15
- no. 1. Summer schemes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. When I set out for Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. Waiting both (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
- no. 4. The phantom (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. So I have fared (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. To Lizbie Browne (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. The clock of the years (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. In a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
- Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost, op. 28a
- no. 1. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
- no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
- no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- no. 4. False Concolinel
- Intimations of Immortality, op. 29
- no. 1. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 2. The Rainbow comes and goes (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 3. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 4. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 5. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 7. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 8. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 9. O joy! that in our embers (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 11. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (Text: William Wordsworth)
- I said to love, op. 19b
- no. 1. I need not go (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. Two lips (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. In five-score summers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. For Life I had never cared greatly (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. I said to Love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
- no. 1. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
- no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
- no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- Oh fair to see, op. 13b
- no. 1. I say I'll seek her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Oh, fair to see (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. 3. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
- no. 4. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
- no. 5. To joy (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
- no. 6. Harvest (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
- no. 7. Since we loved (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- Requiem da Camera
- no. 1. Prelude
- no. 2. from 'August 1914' (Text: John Masefield)
- no. 3. Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
- no. 4. Lament (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
- Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs, op. 17
- no. 1. I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
- no. 2. I have loved flowers that fade (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 3. My spirit sang all day (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
- no. 4. Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 5. Nightingales (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 6. Haste on, my joys! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 7. Wherefore to-night so full of care (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- The Mound
- no. 1. The Night of the Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The Mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Three Short Elegies, op. 5
- no. 1. Life a right shadow is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
- no. 2. This world a hunting is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
- no. 3. This life, which seems so fair (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) GER
- Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a
- no. 1. Let me enjoy the Earth (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. In years defaced (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. I look into my glass (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. It never looks like summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. At a lunar eclipse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. Life laughs onward (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- To a poet, op. 13a
- no. 1. To a poet a thousand years hence (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
- no. 2. On parent knees (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- no. 3. Intrada (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 4. The birthnight (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- no. 5. June on Castle Hill (Text: Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
- no. 6. Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia (Text: George Granville Barker) *
- Two Songs
- no. 1. English Hills (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
- no. 2. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
- Two Sonnets, op. 12
- no. 1. When I consider how my life is spent (Text: John Milton) GER HUN ITA
- no. 2. How soon hath Time (Text: John Milton)
All titles of vocal settings in Opus order
- A cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
- Afterwards (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- A linnet in a gilded cage (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- A merrymaking in question (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- At news of a woman's death (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Birds at Winter Nightfall (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Boy Johnny (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- By the earth's corpse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Days too short (Text: William Henry Davies)
- Dead in the cold (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- During wind and rain (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- English Hills (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
- Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- from 'August 1914' (Text: John Masefield)
- God-forgotten (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Great things (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- He fears his good fortune (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- I am the one (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- I found her out there (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- June leaves and autumn (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Lament (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
- Lullaby, oh lullaby! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Margaret has a milking-pail (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- Middle-age enthusiasms (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- News for her mother (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- O dear me! (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- On a discarded curl of hair (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
- Prelude
- Rondel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Rosy maiden Winifred (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- So various (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Tall nettles (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
- The Battle (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
- The Cupboard (Text: Robert Graves)
- The end of the episode (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The faithful swallow (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The lily has a smooth stalk (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) SPA
- The Mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The Night of the Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The Preparative (Text: Thomas Traherne) [x]
- The Reed Player (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- There's snow on the fields (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE FRI GER
- The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The Temporary the All (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- The terrible robber men (Text: Padraic Colum)
- The Twilit Waters (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
- Thou didst delight my eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- Timing her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Yell'ham-Wood's story (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 2. By Footpath and Stile
- no. 1. Paying calls (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. The master and the leaves (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. Voices from things growing in a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Exeunt omnes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 5. Three Short Elegies
- no. 1. Life a right shadow is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
- no. 2. This world a hunting is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
- no. 3. This life, which seems so fair (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) GER
- op. 8. Dies Natalis
- no. 1. Intrada
- no. 2. Rhapsody (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 3. The Rapture (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 4. Wonder (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 5. The Salutation (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- op. 9. Farewell to Arms [multi-text setting]
- op. 12. Two Sonnets
- no. 1. When I consider how my life is spent (Text: John Milton) GER HUN ITA
- no. 2. How soon hath Time (Text: John Milton)
- op. 13a. To a poet
- no. 1. To a poet a thousand years hence (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
- no. 2. On parent knees (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
- no. 3. Intrada (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 4. The birthnight (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- no. 5. June on Castle Hill (Text: Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
- no. 6. Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia (Text: George Granville Barker) *
- op. 13b. Oh fair to see
- no. 1. I say I'll seek her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Oh, fair to see (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
- no. 3. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
- no. 4. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
- no. 5. To joy (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
- no. 6. Harvest (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
- no. 7. Since we loved (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- op. 14. A Young Man's Exhortation
- no. 1. A young man's exhortation (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
- no. 2. Budmouth Dears (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Ditty (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. Her temple (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Shortening days (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. The sigh (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. Transformations (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. The dance continued (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 15. Earth and Air and Rain
- no. 1. Summer schemes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. When I set out for Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. Waiting both (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
- no. 4. The phantom (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. So I have fared (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. To Lizbie Browne (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. The clock of the years (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. In a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
- op. 16. Before and After Summer
- no. 1. Childhood among the ferns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. Before and after summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The self-unseeing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. Overlooking the river (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. Channel firing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. In the mind's eye (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. The too short time (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 8. Epeisodia (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 9. Amabel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 10. He abjures love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 17. Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs
- no. 1. I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
- no. 2. I have loved flowers that fade (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 3. My spirit sang all day (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
- no. 4. Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 5. Nightingales (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 6. Haste on, my joys! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- no. 7. Wherefore to-night so full of care (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- op. 18. Let Us Garlands Bring
- no. 1. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
- no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
- no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
- op. 19a. Till Earth Outwears
- no. 1. Let me enjoy the Earth (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. In years defaced (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. I look into my glass (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. It never looks like summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. At a lunar eclipse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 7. Life laughs onward (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 19b. I said to love
- no. 1. I need not go (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 3. Two lips (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 4. In five-score summers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 5. For Life I had never cared greatly (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- no. 6. I said to Love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- op. 26. Lo, the full, final Sacrifice
- op. 27.
- no. 2. God is gone up (Text: Edward Taylor)
- op. 28a. Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost
- no. 1. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
- no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
- no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
- no. 4. False Concolinel
- op. 29. Intimations of Immortality
- no. 1. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 2. The Rainbow comes and goes (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 3. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 4. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 5. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 7. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 8. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 9. O joy! that in our embers (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (Text: William Wordsworth)
- no. 11. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (Text: William Wordsworth)
- op. 30. For St. Cecilia (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) [x]*
- op. 33. All this night (Text: William Austin)
- op. 35. Let us now praise famous men (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
- op. 37. White-flowering days (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
- op. 39. In terra pax [multi-text setting]
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