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Composer: Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, op. 45

no. 1. Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 2. Whether I find thee bright with fair (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 3. "After many a dusty mile" (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 4. It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 5. Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ENG

From the Bavarian Highlands, op. 27

no. 1. The dance (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 2. False love (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 3. Lullaby (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 4. Aspiration (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 5. On the alm (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 6. The marksmen (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)

King Olaf, op. 30

no. 1. Introduction (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 3. King Olaf's Return (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 4. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 5. The conversion (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 6. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 7. Gudrun (Scene) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 8. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 9. The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 10. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 11. Sigrid (Scene) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
no. 12. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 13. Thyri (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 14. Duet (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 15. Choral recitative (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 16. The Death of Olaf (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 17. Epilogue (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT ENG

Pageant of Empire

no. 1. Shakespeare's Kingdom (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. 2. The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 3. The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. 4. The Heart of Canada (Text: Alfred Noyes)
no. 5. Sailing westward (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 6. Merchant adventurers (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 7. The Immortal Legions (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
no. 8. A Song of Union (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]

Sea Pictures, op. 37

no. 1. Sea Slumber Song (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel)
no. 2. In Haven (Capri) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
no. 4. Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) ITA
no. 5. The swimmer (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon)

Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar

no. 1. Like to the damask rose (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
no. 1. Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell) GER
no. 2. Queen Mary's Song (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 2. Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (Text: Ed. Sachs after Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
no. 3. A song of Autumn (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
no. 3. Herbstlied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
no. 4. The Poet's Life (Text: Sophie Jewett)
no. 4. Dichterleben (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x]
no. 5. Through the Long Days (Text: Col. John Hay) GER
no. 5. Tage und Jahre gehen (Text: Ed. Sachs after Col. John Hay) GER
no. 6. Rondel (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) ENG GER
no. 6. Rondel (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG GER
no. 7. The Shepherd's Song (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER
no. 7. Des Schäfers Lied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER

The Fringes of the Fleet

no. 1. The Lowestoft Boat (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 2. Fate's discourtesy (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 3. Submarines (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 4. The sweepers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 5. Inside the bar (Text: Gilbert Parker)

The Spirit of England

no. ?. For the fallen (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
no. ?. The Fourth of August (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
no. ?. To women (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]

The Starlight Express, op. 78

no. 1. To the children (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 2. The Blue-Eyes Fairy (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 3. The curfew song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 4. The laugher (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 5. Come little winds (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 6. Tears and laughter (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 7. Dawn song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 8. My old tunes (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 9. Dandelions, daffodils (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 10. Laugh a little ev'ry day (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 11. The dawn (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 12. Oh, think Beauty (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)

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

A child asleep (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
A phylactery (Text: Col. John Hay)
A song of Autumn (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
A Song of Union (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
A spear, a sword (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
A war song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
Always and Everywhere (Text: Frank H. Fortey after Zygmunt Krasiński) ENG
Arabian Serenade (Text: Margery Harriet Lawrence)
As I laye a-thynkynge (Text: Richard Harris Barham)
As torrents in summer (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT ENG
Big Steamers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Callicles (Text: Matthew Arnold)
Carillon (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
Clapham Town End (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Come, gentle night! (Text: Clifton Bingham)
Des Schäfers Lied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER
Dichterleben (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x]
Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (Text: Henry King)
Evening scene (Text: Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore)
Fate's discourtesy (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Fear not, o land (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Fight for right (Text: William Morris)
Follow the colours (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
For the fallen (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell) GER
Goodmorrow (Text: George Gascoigne)
Herbstlied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
How calmly the evening (Text: Thomas Toke Lynch)
In Moonlight (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Inside the bar (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
Is she not passing fair? (Text: Louisa Stuart Costello after Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG
It isnae me (Text: Sally Holmes)
Like to the damask rose (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
Loose, loose the sails (Text: Sir Edward Elgar) [x]
Love alone will stay (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
Marching song (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
Merchant adventurers (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
Modest and Fair (Text: Ben Jonson)
My love dwelt in a Northern land (Text: Andrew Lang) DUT
Queen Mary's Song (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
Rondel (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG GER
Rondel (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Sailing westward (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
Shakespeare's Kingdom (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
So many true princesses who have gone (Text: John Masefield) [x]
Speak, my heart (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
Still to be neat (Text: Ben Jonson)
Submarines (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Tage und Jahre gehen (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Col. John Hay) GER
Tarantella (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The chariots of the Lord (Text: John Brownlie, D.D.)
The Fourth of August (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
The Heart of Canada (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
The herald (Text: Alexander Smith)
The Immortal Legions (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
The King's Way (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
The language of flowers (Text: Sir Edward Elgar)
The Lowestoft Boat (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
The Pipes of Pan (Text: Adrian Ross)
The Poet's Life (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Sophie Jewett)
The prince of sleep (Text: Walter de la Mare) * GER
The rapid stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
The self banished (Text: Edmund Waller)
The sweepers (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
The wanderer
The wind at dawn (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
The woodland stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
They are at rest (Text: John Henry Newman)
To women (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
Weary wind of the west (Text: T. E. (Thomas Edward) Brown)
When swallows fly (Text: Charles Mackay)
Windlass song (Text: William Allingham)
XTC (Text: Sir Edward Elgar)
Zut! Zut! Zut! (Text: Sir Edward Elgar)

op. 16. 7 Lieder
no. 1. The Shepherd's Song (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER
no. 2. Through the Long Days (Text: Col. John Hay) GER
no. 3. Rondel (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) ENG GER

op. 18.
no. 1. O happy eyes (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 2. Love (Text: Arthur Maquarie)

op. 23. Spanish serenade (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
op. 25. The black knight (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Johann Ludwig Uhland) ENG FRE
op. 26.
no. 1. The snow (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
no. 2. Fly, singing bird, fly (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)

op. 27. From the Bavarian Highlands
no. 1. The dance (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 2. False love (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 3. Lullaby (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 4. Aspiration (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 5. On the alm (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 6. The marksmen (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)

op. 30. King Olaf
no. 1. Introduction (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 3. King Olaf's Return (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 4. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 5. The conversion (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 6. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 7. Gudrun (Scene) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 8. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 9. The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 10. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 11. Sigrid (Scene) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
no. 12. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 13. Thyri (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 14. Duet (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 15. Choral recitative (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
no. 16. The Death of Olaf (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
no. 17. Epilogue (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT ENG

op. 31.
no. 1. After (Text: Philip Bourke Marston)
no. 2. A Song of Flight (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

op. 37. Sea Pictures
no. 1. Sea Slumber Song (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel)
no. 2. In Haven (Capri) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
no. 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) GER
no. 4. Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) ITA
no. 5. The swimmer (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon)

op. 41.
no. 1. In the dawn (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
no. 2. Speak, music (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)

op. 42.
no. 3. There are seven that pull the thread (Text: William Butler Yeats)

op. 45. Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology
no. 1. Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 2. Whether I find thee bright with fair (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 3. "After many a dusty mile" (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 4. It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 5. Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ENG

op. 48.
no. 1. Pleading (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon)

op. 52. A Christmas greeting (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
op. 53.
no. 1. There is sweet music (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 2. Deep in my soul (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
no. 3. O wild West Wind (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 4. Owls (Text: Sir Edward Elgar)

op. 54. The Reveille (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
op. 57. Go, song of mine (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
op. 59.
no. 3. Oh, soft was the song (Text: Gilbert Parker)
no. 5. Was it some Golden Star? (Text: Gilbert Parker)
no. 6. Twilight (Text: Gilbert Parker)

op. 60.
no. 1. The torch (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])
no. 2. The River (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])

op. 69. The Music Makers (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy)
op. 71.
no. 1. The shower (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 2. The fountain (Text: Henry Vaughan)

op. 72. Death on the hills (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) ENG
op. 73.
no. 1. Love's tempest (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) ENG
no. 2. Serenade (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky) ENG

op. 78. The Starlight Express
no. 1. To the children (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 2. The Blue-Eyes Fairy (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 3. The curfew song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 4. The laugher (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 5. Come little winds (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 6. Tears and laughter (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 7. Dawn song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 8. My old tunes (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 9. Dandelions, daffodils (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 10. Laugh a little ev'ry day (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 11. The dawn (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 12. Oh, think Beauty (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
no. 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)

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