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Composer: John Mitchell (1941-)

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

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Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot) , op. 109

no. 1. Time present and time past (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
no. 2. At the still point (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
no. 3. Shall I say it again? (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
no. 4. Where is there an end of it? (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
no. 5. We shall not cease from exploration (Text: T. S. Eliot) *

Five Poems by Robert Frost , op. 48

no. 1. To the thawing wind (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 2. Nightscene (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 3. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
no. 4. Acquainted with the night (Text: Robert Frost) GER
no. 5. Riders (Text: Robert Frost) *

Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay , op. 50

no. 1. Night is my sister (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 2. Columbine (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 3. Time does not bring relief (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 4. You'll be sorry (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 5. Beauty (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *

Four Poems by Sylvia Plath , op. 104

no. 1. Morning Song (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
no. 2. The Couriers (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
no. 3. Sheep in Fog (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
no. 4. The Applicant (Text: Sylvia Plath) *

Four Sacred Songs , op. 96

no. 1. A Daily Offering (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 2. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
no. 3. Thee God, I come from (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 4. The windhover (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN

Four Songs in Spanish , op. 95

no. 1. Muerte (Text: Federico García Lorca)
no. 4. La United Fruit Co. (Text: Pablo Neruda) *

Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton , op. 114

no. 1. The starry night (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 2. The balance wheel (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 3. I Remember (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 4. Her kind (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 5. With mercy for the Greedy (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 6. Music swims back to me (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 7. O Mary, fragile mother (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 8. Frenzy (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 9. Housewife (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 10. Small wire (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 11. Mr. Mine (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 12. Where it was at back then (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 13. Just once (Text: Anne Sexton) *
no. 14. In Excelsis (Text: Anne Sexton) *

La Corona , op. 89

no. 1. Deign at my hands (introduction) (Text: John Donne)
no. 2. Salvation to all (annunciation) (Text: John Donne)
no. 3. Immensity cloistered (nativity) (Text: John Donne)
no. 4. With his kind mother (temple) (Text: John Donne)
no. 5. By miracles exceeding (crucifixion) (Text: John Donne)
no. 6. Moist with one drop (resurrection) (Text: John Donne)
no. 7. Salute the last (ascension) (Text: John Donne)

Seven Songs from William Blake , op. 1

no. 1. To Morning (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. Love and harmony combine (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. My silks and fine array (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. Memory, hither come (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. How sweet I roam'd (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. The wild winds weep (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. I love the merry dance (Text: William Blake)

Six Sonnets by Michelangelo , op. 72

no. 1. From heaven his spirit came (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) RUS GER FRE
no. 2. A heart of flaming sulphur (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER
no. 3. Blest spirit (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti)
no. 4. He who ordained (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER
no. 5. Choice soul (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA
no. 6. When divine Art (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER

The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky , op. 24

no. 1. For the Moors (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 2. Winter Reflection (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 3. Tell me, tell me, smiling child (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 4. The darkened woods (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 5. Celebration (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 6. Evening landscape (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 7. I'm happiest when most away (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 8. In summer moonlight (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 9. The Old Hall (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 10. The harp (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 11. The traveler (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 12. A spell (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 13. The caged bird (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 14. The pessimist (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 15. No coward soul is mine (Text: Emily Brontë)

Three Songs for Vicky , op. 90

no. 1. To Dorothy (Text: Marvin Bell) *
no. 2. Echo (Text: Lawrence Durrell) *

Three Songs in Spanish , op. 103

no. 2. Sátira filosófica (Text: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana)
no. 3. Último árbol (Text: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga) *

Visions from the Earth , op. 17

no. 1. A vision (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 2. Cold in the earth (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 3. To Imagination (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 4. Come, walk with me (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 5. Shall Earth no more inspire thee (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 6. Child of Delight! (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 7. Stars (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 8. The Night Wind (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 9. How Clear She Shines (Text: Emily Brontë)
no. 10. The Messenger (Text: Emily Brontë)

Visions from the Flame , op. 25

no. 1. The voice of the Bard (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. The lamb (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
no. 3. The divine image (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
no. 4. Ah! Sunflower (Text: William Blake) FRE
no. 5. I asked a Thief (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. The Garden of Love (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. The smile (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. Mock on, mock on (Text: William Blake)
no. 9. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
no. 10. Eternity (Text: William Blake)

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

A Daily Offering, op. 96 no. 1 (in Four Sacred Songs) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
A heart of flaming sulphur, op. 72 no. 2 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER
A spell, op. 24 no. 12 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
A vision, op. 17 no. 1 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Acquainted with the night, op. 48 no. 4 (in Five Poems by Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost) GER
Ah! Sunflower, op. 25 no. 4 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake) FRE
At the still point, op. 109 no. 2 (in Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot)) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
Beauty, op. 50 no. 5 (in Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Blest spirit, op. 72 no. 3 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti)
Bright or cloudy, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 1 no. 4 (Text: Emily Brontë)
By miracles exceeding (crucifixion), op. 89 no. 5 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
Celebration, op. 24 no. 5 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Child of Delight!, op. 17 no. 6 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Choice soul, op. 72 no. 5 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) SPA
Cold in the earth, op. 17 no. 2 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Columbine, op. 50 no. 2 (in Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Come, walk with me, op. 17 no. 4 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Death, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 1 no. 3 (Text: Emily Brontë)
Deign at my hands (introduction), op. 89 no. 1 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
Douglas' ride, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 1 no. 5 (Text: Emily Brontë)
Echo, op. 90 no. 2 (in Three Songs for Vicky) (Text: Lawrence Durrell) *
Eternity, op. 25 no. 10 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
Evening landscape, op. 24 no. 6 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
For the Moors, op. 24 no. 1 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Frenzy, op. 114 no. 8 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
From heaven his spirit came, op. 72 no. 1 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) RUS GER FRE
He who ordained, op. 72 no. 4 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER
Her kind, op. 114 no. 4 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Hope, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 1 no. 2 (Text: Emily Brontë)
Housewife, op. 114 no. 9 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
How Clear She Shines, op. 17 no. 9 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
How sweet I roam'd, op. 1 no. 5 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
I asked a Thief, op. 25 no. 5 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
I love the merry dance, op. 1 no. 7 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
I Remember, op. 114 no. 3 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
I'm happiest when most away, op. 24 no. 7 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Immensity cloistered (nativity), op. 89 no. 3 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
In Excelsis, op. 114 no. 14 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
In summer moonlight, op. 24 no. 8 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Just once, op. 114 no. 13 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
La United Fruit Co., op. 95 no. 4 (in Four Songs in Spanish) (Text: Pablo Neruda) *
Love and harmony combine, op. 1 no. 2 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
Lullaby, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 3 no. 3 (Text: Emily Brontë)
Memory, hither come, op. 1 no. 4 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
Mock on, mock on, op. 25 no. 8 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
Moist with one drop (resurrection), op. 89 no. 6 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
Morning Song, op. 104 no. 1 (in Four Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Mr. Mine, op. 114 no. 11 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Muerte, op. 95 no. 1 (in Four Songs in Spanish) (Text: Federico García Lorca)
Music swims back to me, op. 114 no. 6 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
My lady dreams, op. 71 (Seven Journeys to Earth), Heft 1 no. 1 (Text: Emily Brontë)
My silks and fine array, op. 1 no. 3 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
Night is my sister, op. 50 no. 1 (in Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Nightscene, op. 48 no. 2 (in Five Poems by Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost)
No coward soul is mine, op. 24 no. 15 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
O Mary, fragile mother, op. 114 no. 7 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Ode On A Grecian Urn, op. 94 (Text: John Keats)
Pied Beauty, op. 96 no. 2 (in Four Sacred Songs) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
Riders, op. 48 no. 5 (in Five Poems by Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost) *
Salute the last (ascension), op. 89 no. 7 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
Salvation to all (annunciation), op. 89 no. 2 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
Sátira filosófica, op. 103 no. 2 (in Three Songs in Spanish) (Text: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana)
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, op. 17 no. 5 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Shall I say it again?, op. 109 no. 3 (in Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot)) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
Sheep in Fog, op. 104 no. 3 (in Four Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Small wire, op. 114 no. 10 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Stars, op. 17 no. 7 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, op. 48 no. 3 (in Five Poems by Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost) GER
Tell me, tell me, smiling child, op. 24 no. 3 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The Applicant, op. 104 no. 4 (in Four Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
The balance wheel, op. 114 no. 2 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
The caged bird, op. 24 no. 13 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The Couriers, op. 104 no. 2 (in Four Poems by Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
The darkened woods, op. 24 no. 4 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The divine image, op. 25 no. 3 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
The Dream, op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 4 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The Garden of Love, op. 25 no. 6 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
The harp, op. 24 no. 10 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The lamb, op. 25 no. 2 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
The Messenger, op. 17 no. 10 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The Night Wind, op. 17 no. 8 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The Old Hall, op. 24 no. 9 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The pessimist, op. 24 no. 14 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The return from town, op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 5 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The smile, op. 25 no. 7 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
The starry night, op. 114 no. 1 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
The traveler, op. 24 no. 11 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
The tyger, op. 25 no. 9 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FRE
The voice of the Bard, op. 25 no. 1 (in Visions from the Flame) (Text: William Blake)
The wild swans, op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 2 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The wild winds weep, op. 1 no. 6 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
The windhover, op. 96 no. 4 (in Four Sacred Songs) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
Thee God, I come from, op. 96 no. 3 (in Four Sacred Songs) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Time does not bring relief, op. 50 no. 3 (in Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Time present and time past, op. 109 no. 1 (in Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot)) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
To Dorothy, op. 90 no. 1 (in Three Songs for Vicky) (Text: Marvin Bell) *
To Imagination, op. 17 no. 3 (in Visions from the Earth) (Text: Emily Brontë)
To Morning, op. 1 no. 1 (in Seven Songs from William Blake) (Text: William Blake)
To the thawing wind, op. 48 no. 1 (in Five Poems by Robert Frost) (Text: Robert Frost)
Travel, op. 51 (Five Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay) no. 3 (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Último árbol, op. 103 no. 3 (in Three Songs in Spanish) (Text: Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga) *
We shall not cease from exploration, op. 109 no. 5 (in Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot)) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
When divine Art, op. 72 no. 6 (in Six Sonnets by Michelangelo) (Text: John Addington Symonds after Michelangelo Buonarroti) GER
Where is there an end of it?, op. 109 no. 4 (in Cantata: Four Passages (Excerpts from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot)) (Text: T. S. Eliot) *
Where it was at back then, op. 114 no. 12 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
Winter Reflection, op. 24 no. 2 (in The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky) (Text: Emily Brontë)
With his kind mother (temple), op. 89 no. 4 (in La Corona) (Text: John Donne)
With mercy for the Greedy, op. 114 no. 5 (in Fourteen Poems by Anne Sexton) (Text: Anne Sexton) *
You'll be sorry, op. 50 no. 4 (in Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *

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