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LIBRETTI A STAMPA

Robert Still

(Londra 10/6/1910, Buckleby, Berks. 13/1/1971)

TESTI DEI LIEDER

"A Song of Pain and Beauty"
di Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

"August"
di John Masefield (1878-1967)

"Awaiting Execution"
da "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares"
di Chidiock Tichbourne (1558?-1586)

"Beauty Bathing"
di Anthony Munday (1553-1633)

"Elegie"
di Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
(opus baritone, chorus, small orchestra)

"I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden"
di Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"O World! O Life! O Time!"
di Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Ode to a Skylark"
da "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!"
di Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"Sister Awake"
di Anonimo

"Sonnet"
di John Keats (1795-1821)

"Sunset on the Morea"
di George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"The Kingfisher"
di William Henry Davies (1871-1940)

"The Manly Heart (or, in Lilyanne's case, Womanly) "
da "Shall I wasting in despair die"
di George Wither (fl. 1614)

"The sea hath many thousand sand"
di Anonimo

"The Sirens Song"
di William Browne (1591-c1643)

"When I am dead, my dearest"
di Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"Whenas in silks my Julia goes"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)