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Composer: (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Listing of musical settings by opus [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

8 Folk Song Arrangements

no. 1. Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 2. She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 3. Lemady (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 4. Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 5. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
no. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
no. 7. The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder )
no. 8. Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder )

A Birthday Hansel, op. 92

no. 1. Birthday Song (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. My Early Walk (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. Wee Willie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. My Hoggie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. Afton Water (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 6. The Winter (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
no. 7. Leezie Lindsay (Text: Robert Burns)

A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28

no. 1. Procession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN
no. 2. Wolcum Yole! (Text: 14^th century)
no. 3. There is no rose
no. 4a. That yongë child (Text: 14^th century)
no. 4b. Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther)
no. 5. As dew in Aprille (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
no. 6. This little babe (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 7. Interlude (Harp Solo)
no. 8. In freezing winter night (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 9. Spring carol (Text: William Cornish)
no. 10. Deo gracias (Text: 15^th century)
no. 11. Recession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN

A Charm of Lullabies, op. 41

no. 1. A cradle song (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 2. The Highland Balou (Text: Robert Burns) GER FRE
no. 3. Sephestia's Lullaby (Text: Robert Greene)
no. 4. A charm (Text: Thomas Randolph)
no. 5. The Nurse's Song (Text: John Phillip)

Ballad of Heroes, op. 14

no. 1. Funeral march (Text: Randall Swingler) *
no. 2. Scherzo - Dance of Death (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting]
no. 4. Epilog (Text: Randall Swingler) *

Cabaret Songs

no. 1. Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Johnny (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 4. Calypso (Text: W. H. Auden) *

`Ekho Po`eta (The Poet's Echo), op. 76 ENG

no. 1. `Ekho (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 2. Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 3. Angel (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) GER
no. 4. Solovej i roza (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 5. `Epigramma (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 6. Stikhi, sochinjonnyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)

Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano

no. 1. To lie flat on the back (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Night covers up the rigid land (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. The sun shines down (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 4. Fish in the unruffled lakes (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 5. What's in your mind? (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
no. 6. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*

Five Flower Songs

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
no. 2. The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
no. 3. Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe) DUT
no. 4. The evening primrose (Text: John Clare) DUT
no. 5. The Ballad of Green Broom DUT

Friday Afternoons, op. 7

no. 1. Begone, dull care! (Text: 17^th cent.)
no. 2. A tragic story (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
no. 3. Cuckoo! (Text: Jane Taylor)
no. 4. Ee-oh!
no. 5. A New Year carol
no. 6. I mun be married on Sunday (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 7. There was a man of Newington
no. 8. Fishing song (Text: John Chalkhill)
no. 9. The useful plough
no. 10. Jazz-Man (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
no. 11. There was a monkey
no. 12. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )

Les Illuminations (Visions) (Les Illuminations), op. 18 ENG CHI

no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 2. Villes (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 3. Antique [multi-text setting] ENG FRE CHI
no. 4. Royauté (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 5. Marine (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 7. Being beauteous (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER CHI
no. 8. Parade (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 9. Départ (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI

Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra, op. 60

no. 1. On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
no. 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) FRE
no. 3. Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) FRE
no. 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Text: Thomas Middleton) FRE
no. 5. But that night when on my bed I lay (Text: William Wordsworth) FRE
no. 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
no. 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Text: John Keats) FRE
no. 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

On This Island, op. 11

no. 1. Let the florid music praise! (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Now the leaves are falling fast (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Seascape (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 4. Nocturne (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 5. As it is, plenty (Text: W. H. Auden) *

Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8

no. 1. Prologue (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Rats away
no. 3. Messalina
no. 4. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
no. 5. Epilogue and Funeral March (Text: W. H. Auden) *

Quatre chansons françaises (Four French Songs) ENG

no. 1. Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 2. Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI RUS
no. 3. L'enfance (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER SPA ENG GER

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente (Six Hölderlin fragments) (Sis Fragments de Hölderlin), op. 61 ENG CAT

no. 1. Menschenbeifall (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 2. Die Heimat (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 4. Die Jugend (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 5. Hälfte des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT RUS ENG
no. 6. Die Linien des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (Sérénade pour ténor, cor et cordes), op. 31 FRE

no. 1. Pastoral (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN FRE
no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
no. 3. Elegy (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
no. 4. Dirge (Text: 15^th century) NYN FRE
no. 5. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE
no. 6. Sonnet (Text: John Keats) NYN FRE

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo) (Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo), op. 22 SPA ENG

no. 1. Sonetto XVI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG FRE
no. 2. Sonetto XXXI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 3. Sonetto XXX (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 4. Sonetto LV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 6. Sonetto XXXII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 7. Sonetto XXIV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, op. 74

no. 1. Proverb I (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 2. London (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 3. Proverb II (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 4. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 5. Proverb III (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 6. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 7. Proverb IV (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 8. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 9. Proverb V (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 10. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
no. 11. Proverb VI (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 12. Ah, Sun-flower (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 13. Proverb VII (Text: William Blake) RUS ITA GER FRE
no. 14. Every Night and every Morn [multi-text setting] FRE

Spring Symphony, op. 44

no. 1. Shine out (Text: George Chapman)
no. 2. The merry cuckoo (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 3. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 4. The driving boy [multi-text setting]
no. 5. The morning star (Text: John Milton)
no. 6. Welcome, Maids of Honour (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. Waters above (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 9. When will my May come (Text: Richard Barnfield)
no. 10. Fair and fair (Text: George Peele)
no. 11. Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 12. Finale [multi-text setting] ENG LAT

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35

no. 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 2. Batter my heart (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 3. Oh might those sighes and teares (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 4. Oh, to vex me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 5. What if this present (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 6. Since she whom I lov'd (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 7. At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 8. Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 9. Death be not proud (Text: John Donne) ITA FRE

The Way to the Tomb

no. 1. Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 2. Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 3. Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *

Three Two-Part Songs

no. ?. The rainbow (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. ?. The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Tit for tat (Un prêté pour un rendu) FRE

no. 1. A song of enchantment (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 2. Autumn (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 3. Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 4. Vigil (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
no. 5. Tit for tat (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE

Two ballads

no. ?. Underneath the abject willow (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*

Two Part-Songs

no. ?. Lift boy (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*

War Requiem, op. 66

no. 1. Requiem aeternam (Text: Wilfred Owen) GER
no. 2. Dies irae [multi-text setting]
no. 3. Offertorium (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 4. Sanctus (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 5. Agnus Dei (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 6. Libera me (Text: Wilfred Owen)

Who are these children?, op. 84

no. 1. A riddle (The Earth) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 2. A laddie's sang (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 3. Nightmare (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 4. Black day (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 5. Bed-time (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 6. Slaughter (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 7. A riddle (The child you were) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 8. The larky lad (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 9. Who are these children? (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 10. Supper (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 11. The children (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 12. The auld aik (Text: William Soutar) [x]*

Winter words (Mots d'hiver), op. 52 FRE

no. 1. At day-close in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Midnight on the Great Western (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Wagtail and Baby (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The little old table (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The choirmaster's burial (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
no. 7. At the railway station, Upway (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Before life and after (Text: Thomas Hardy)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in opus order (without opus first, alphabetic)

A dirge (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA GER
A hymn on divine musick
A hymn to the virgin
A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
A song of enchantment (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
An evening hymn (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FRE FIN
At the mid hour of night (Text: Volkslieder )
At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder )
Autumn (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Avenging and bright (Text: Thomas Moore)
Beware! (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Volkslieder ) FRE
Bird Scarer's song (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Birthday song for Erwin (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Bonny at morn (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Ca' the yowes (Text: Robert Burns)
Calypso (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Chanson d'automne (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER SPA ENG GER
Chorale after an Old French Carol (Text: W. H. Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
Come you not from Newcastle? (Text: Volkslieder )
Cradle song (Text: Louis MacNeice) *
Dafydd y Garreg Wen (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
Dans les bois (Text: Gérard de Nerval) ENG
Dear Harp of my Country! (Text: Thomas Moore)
Early one morning (Text: Volkslieder ) FIN
Eho! Eho! (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Epitaph: The Clerk (Text: Herbert Asquith)
Evening (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Fancy (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT ITA FRE
Festival Cantata (Text: Christopher Smart)
Fileuse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Fish in the unruffled lakes (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
From 'Lucy' (Text: William Wordsworth)
Funeral Blues (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
How sweet the answer (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Hymn to St Cecilia (Text: W. H. Auden) *
I have sinned (Text: Bishop Jeremiah Taylor)
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
Johnny (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Jubilate Deo [multi-text setting] DUT ENG LAT FRE GER FIN
La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
La noël passée (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Lemady (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
L'enfance (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
Lift boy (in Two Part-Songs) (Text: Robert Graves) [x]*
Lilian (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Little Sir William (Text: Volkslieder )
Lord! I married me a wife (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Marsh flowers (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: George Crabbe) DUT
Master Kilby (Text: Volkslieder )
Morning (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Night (in The Way to the Tomb) (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Night covers up the rigid land (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Not even summer yet (Text: Peter Burra) *
Nuits de juin (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
O can ye sew cushions? (Text: Volkslieder )
O that I had ne'er been married (Text: Robert Burns)
O Waly, Waly (Text: Volkslieder )
Oft in the stilly night (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Oliver Cromwell (Text: Volkslieder )
Prithee (Text: John Suckling, Sir)
Quand j'étais chez mon père (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
Rejoice in the Lamb (Text: Christopher Smart)
Rich and rare (Text: Thomas Moore) FRE
Ring out the thousand wars of old (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Sagesse (in Quatre chansons françaises) (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA GER CHI RUS
Sail on, sail on (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Sailor-Boy (Text: Volkslieder )
Sally in our alley (Text: Henry Carey) GER
Shepherd's carol (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
She's like the swallow (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
Silver (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Sweet Polly Oliver (Text: Volkslieder )
Sweet was the song
Take, o take those lips away DUT GER FRE FIN GER POL
Tell me the truth about love (in Cabaret Songs) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
The ash grove (Text: Volkslieder )
The Ballad of Green Broom (in Five Flower Songs) DUT
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The bonny Earl o' Moray (Text: Volkslieder ) GER
The brisk young widow (Text: Volkslieder )
The evening primrose (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: John Clare) DUT
The False Knight upon the road (in 8 Folk Song Arrangements) (Text: Volkslieder )
The foggy, foggy dew (Text: Volkslieder )
The joy of grief (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The king goes hunting (Text: Iris Rogers after Volkslieder )
The last rose of summer (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
The Lincolnshire poacher (Text: Volkslieder )
The Miller of Dee (Text: Volkslieder )
The Minstrel Boy (Text: Thomas Moore)
The nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The ploughboy (Text: Volkslieder )
The rainbow (in Three Two-Part Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The red cockatoo (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi)
The Riddle Song (Text: Volkslieder )
The ride-by-nights (in Three Two-Part Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The ship of Rio (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The shooting of his dear (Text: Volkslieder )
The sight entrancing (Text: Volkslieder )
The soldier and the sailor (Text: Volkslieder )
The succession of the four sweet months (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
The sun shines down (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
The trees they grow so high (Text: Volkslieder )
There's none to soothe (Text: Volkslieder )
Tit for tat (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
To daffodils (in Five Flower Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT FIN
To lie flat on the back (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Tom Bowling (Text: Charles Dibdin)
Um Mitternacht (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Underneath the abject willow (in Two ballads) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Underneath the abject willow (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Vigil (in Tit for tat) (Text: Walter de la Mare) FRE
Virtue in deeds not words (Text: Philip James Bailey)
Voici le printemps (Text: Volkslieder ) ENG
What's in your mind? (in Fish in the unruffled lakes : Six Auden Settings for High Voice and Piano) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
When you're feeling like expressing your affection *
Wild with passion (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)

op. 7. Friday Afternoons
no. 1. Begone, dull care! (Text: 17^th cent.)
no. 2. A tragic story (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) FRE
no. 3. Cuckoo! (Text: Jane Taylor)
no. 4. Ee-oh!
no. 5. A New Year carol
no. 6. I mun be married on Sunday (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 7. There was a man of Newington
no. 8. Fishing song (Text: John Chalkhill)
no. 9. The useful plough
no. 10. Jazz-Man (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
no. 11. There was a monkey
no. 12. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder )

op. 8. Our Hunting Fathers
no. 1. Prologue (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Rats away
no. 3. Messalina
no. 4. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
no. 5. Epilogue and Funeral March (Text: W. H. Auden) *

op. 11. On This Island
no. 1. Let the florid music praise! (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 2. Now the leaves are falling fast (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Seascape (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 4. Nocturne (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 5. As it is, plenty (Text: W. H. Auden) *

op. 14. Ballad of Heroes
no. 1. Funeral march (Text: Randall Swingler) *
no. 2. Scherzo - Dance of Death (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 3. Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting] no. 4. Epilog (Text: Randall Swingler) *

op. 18. Les Illuminations ENG CHI
no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 2. Villes (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 3. Antique [multi-text setting] ENG FRE CHI no. 4. Royauté (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 5. Marine (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 7. Being beauteous (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER CHI
no. 8. Parade (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI
no. 9. Départ (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG CHI

op. 22. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo SPA ENG
no. 1. Sonetto XVI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG FRE
no. 2. Sonetto XXXI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 3. Sonetto XXX (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 4. Sonetto LV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG
no. 6. Sonetto XXXII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG GER
no. 7. Sonetto XXIV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA ENG

op. 28. A Ceremony of Carols
no. 1. Procession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN
no. 2. Wolcum Yole! (Text: 14^th century)
no. 3. There is no rose
no. 4a. That yongë child (Text: 14^th century)
no. 4b. Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther)
no. 5. As dew in Aprille (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
no. 6. This little babe (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 7. Interlude (Harp Solo)
no. 8. In freezing winter night (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 9. Spring carol (Text: William Cornish)
no. 10. Deo gracias (Text: 15^th century)
no. 11. Recession (Text: after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN

op. 31. Serenade for tenor, horn and strings FRE
no. 1. Pastoral (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN FRE
no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN FRE
no. 3. Elegy (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
no. 4. Dirge (Text: 15^th century) NYN FRE
no. 5. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN FRE
no. 6. Sonnet (Text: John Keats) NYN FRE

op. 35. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
no. 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 2. Batter my heart (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 3. Oh might those sighes and teares (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 4. Oh, to vex me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 5. What if this present (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 6. Since she whom I lov'd (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 7. At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 8. Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne) FRE
no. 9. Death be not proud (Text: John Donne) ITA FRE

op. 40. Canticle I (My beloved is mine) (Text: Francis Quarles)
op. 41. A Charm of Lullabies
no. 1. A cradle song (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 2. The Highland Balou (Text: Robert Burns) GER FRE
no. 3. Sephestia's Lullaby (Text: Robert Greene)
no. 4. A charm (Text: Thomas Randolph)
no. 5. The Nurse's Song (Text: John Phillip)

op. 44. Spring Symphony
no. 1. Shine out (Text: George Chapman)
no. 2. The merry cuckoo (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 3. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 4. The driving boy [multi-text setting] no. 5. The morning star (Text: John Milton)
no. 6. Welcome, Maids of Honour (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. Waters above (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. 9. When will my May come (Text: Richard Barnfield)
no. 10. Fair and fair (Text: George Peele)
no. 11. Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake) WEL
no. 12. Finale [multi-text setting] ENG LAT
op. 51. Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac)
op. 52. Winter words FRE
no. 1. At day-close in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Midnight on the Great Western (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Wagtail and Baby (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The little old table (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The choirmaster's burial (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
no. 7. At the railway station, Upway (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Before life and after (Text: Thomas Hardy)

op. 53. Choral Dances from Gloriana (Text: William Charles Franklyn Plomer, CBE) *
op. 55. Canticle III (Still falls the Rain) (Text: Edith Sitwell) *
op. 60. Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra
no. 1. On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) FRE
no. 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) FRE
no. 3. Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) FRE
no. 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Text: Thomas Middleton) FRE
no. 5. But that night when on my bed I lay (Text: William Wordsworth) FRE
no. 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE
no. 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Text: John Keats) FRE
no. 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE

op. 61. Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente ENG CAT
no. 1. Menschenbeifall (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 2. Die Heimat (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 4. Die Jugend (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG
no. 5. Hälfte des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT RUS ENG
no. 6. Die Linien des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) CAT ENG

op. 66. War Requiem
no. 1. Requiem aeternam (Text: Wilfred Owen) GER
no. 2. Dies irae [multi-text setting] no. 3. Offertorium (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 4. Sanctus (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 5. Agnus Dei (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 6. Libera me (Text: Wilfred Owen)

op. 74. Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
no. 1. Proverb I (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 2. London (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 3. Proverb II (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 4. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 5. Proverb III (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 6. A poison tree (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 7. Proverb IV (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 8. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 9. Proverb V (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 10. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS FRE GER
no. 11. Proverb VI (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 12. Ah, Sun-flower (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 13. Proverb VII (Text: William Blake) RUS ITA GER FRE
no. 14. Every Night and every Morn [multi-text setting] FRE
op. 75. Voices for Today [x]
op. 76. `Ekho Po`eta ENG
no. 1. `Ekho (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 2. Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 3. Angel (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) GER
no. 4. Solovej i roza (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 5. `Epigramma (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 6. Stikhi, sochinjonnyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)

op. 82. Kinderkreuzzug (Text: Bertolt Brecht) * ENG
op. 84. Who are these children?
no. 1. A riddle (The Earth) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 2. A laddie's sang (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 3. Nightmare (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 4. Black day (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 5. Bed-time (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 6. Slaughter (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 7. A riddle (The child you were) (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 8. The larky lad (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 9. Who are these children? (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 10. Supper (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 11. The children (Text: William Soutar) [x]*
no. 12. The auld aik (Text: William Soutar) [x]*

op. 86. Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
op. 89. Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
op. 92. A Birthday Hansel
no. 1. Birthday Song (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. My Early Walk (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. Wee Willie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. My Hoggie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. Afton Water (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 6. The Winter (Text: Robert Burns) GER GER
no. 7. Leezie Lindsay (Text: Robert Burns)

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