Composer: Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

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 (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Budmouth Dears (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Ditty (Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Her temple (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Shortening days (Thomas Hardy) *
no. 7. The sigh (Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Former beauties (Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. Transformations (Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. The dance continued (Thomas Hardy)

Before and After Summer, op. 16

no. 1. Childhood among the ferns (Thomas Hardy) *
no. 2. Before and after summer (Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The self-unseeing (Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Overlooking the river (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Channel firing (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. In the mind's eye (Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. The too short time (Thomas Hardy) *
no. 8. Epeisodia (Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. Amabel (Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. He abjures love (Thomas Hardy)

By Footpath and Stile, op. 2

no. 1. Paying calls (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Where the picnic was (Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The master and the leaves (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. Voices from things growing in a churchyard (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Exeunt omnes (Thomas Hardy)

Dies Natalis, op. 8

no. 1. Intrada
no. 2. Rhapsody (Thomas Traherne)
no. 3. The Rapture (Thomas Traherne)
no. 4. Wonder (Thomas Traherne)
no. 5. The Salutation (Thomas Traherne)

Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15

no. 1. Summer schemes (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. When I set out for Lyonnesse (Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Waiting both (Thomas Hardy) *
no. 4. The phantom (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. So I have fared (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. To Lizbie Browne (Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. The clock of the years (Thomas Hardy)
no. 9. In a churchyard (Thomas Hardy)
no. 10. Proud songsters (Thomas Hardy) *

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

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

I said to love, op. 19b

no. 1. I need not go (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February (Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Two lips (Thomas Hardy) *
no. 4. In five-score summers (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. For Life I had never cared greatly (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. I said to Love (Thomas Hardy)

Intimations of Immortality, op. 29

no. 1. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (William Wordsworth)
no. 2. The Rainbow comes and goes (William Wordsworth)
no. 3. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (William Wordsworth)
no. 4. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (William Wordsworth)
no. 5. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (William Wordsworth)
no. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (William Wordsworth)
no. 7. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (William Wordsworth)
no. 8. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (William Wordsworth)
no. 9. O joy! that in our embers (William Wordsworth)
no. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (William Wordsworth)
no. 11. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (William Wordsworth)

Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18

no. 1. Come away, come away, death (William Shakespeare) SWE FRE GER
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (William Shakespeare) GER
no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (William Shakespeare) GER
no. 4. O mistress mine (William Shakespeare) GER
no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (William Shakespeare) GER

Oh fair to see, op. 13b

no. 1. I say I'll seek her (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Oh, fair to see (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 3. As I lay in the early sun (Edward Shanks)
no. 4. Only the wanderer (Ivor Gurney) *
no. 5. To joy (Edmund Charles Blunden) *
no. 6. Harvest (Edmund Charles Blunden) *
no. 7. Since we loved (Robert Seymour Bridges)

Requiem da Camera

no. 1. Prelude
no. 2. from 'August 1914' (John Masefield)
no. 3. Only a man harrowing clods (Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. Lament (Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)

Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs, op. 17

no. 1. I praise the tender flower (Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
no. 2. I have loved flowers that fade (Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 3. My spirit sang all day (Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
no. 4. Clear and gentle stream (Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Nightingales (Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 6. Haste on, my joys! (Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Wherefore to-night so full of care (Robert Seymour Bridges)

Three Short Elegies, op. 5

no. 1. Life a right shadow is (William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
no. 2. This world a hunting is (William Drummond of Hawthornden)
no. 3. This life, which seems so fair (William Drummond of Hawthornden)

Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a

no. 1. Let me enjoy the Earth (Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. In years defaced (Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. The Market-Girl (Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. I look into my glass (Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. It never looks like summer (Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. At a lunar eclipse (Thomas Hardy)
no. 7. Life laughs onward (Thomas Hardy)

To a poet, op. 13a

no. 1. To a poet a thousand years hence (James Elroy Flecker)
no. 2. On parent knees (Sir William Jones after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG
no. 3. Intrada (Thomas Traherne)
no. 4. The birthnight (Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. June on Castle Hill (Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
no. 6. Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia (George Barker) *

Two Sonnets, op. 12

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

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

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

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