Composer: Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

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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
no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
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) SWE FRE GER
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) 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)
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 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 opus order (without opus first, alphabetic)

A linnet in a gilded cage (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
A merrymaking in question (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Afterwards (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At news of a woman's death (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Text: Thomas Hardy)
By the earth's corpse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Dead in the cold (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
During wind and rain (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
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) [x]*
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)
On a discarded curl of hair (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Prelude
So various (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 mound (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
The night of the dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Temporary the All (Text: Thomas Hardy)
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)

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)
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: 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 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)
no. 2. Ditty (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Budmouth Dears (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) *
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) *

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) SWE FRE GER
no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) 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 (Text: Gerald Finzi)
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) NOR GER
no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare)
no. 4. Is it not sure a deadly pain [x]

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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