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Composer: Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

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Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Young Man's Exhortation , op. 14

no. 1. A young man's exhortation (Text: Thomas Hardy)
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)
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) *

Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost , op. 28a

no. 1. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR GER FIN
no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare)
no. 4. Is it not sure a deadly pain [x]

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)

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)

Let Us Garlands Bring , op. 18

no. 1. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR SWE FRE GER FIN
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT GER FRE FIN SPA
no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) ENG ITA GER FIN
no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN

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)
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)

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)

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: Sir William Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
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 Sonnets , op. 12

no. 1. When I consider how my life is spent (Text: John Milton)
no. 2. How soon hath Time (Text: John Milton)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

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

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