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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) English

Blow, blow, thou Winter wind: song / J Sarjeant -- words from (Shakspeare's) As You Like It {Boosey} 17/490 a : No. 1 in B min

Blow, blow, thou Winter wind: song / J Sarjeant -- words from (Shakspeare's) As You Like It {Boosey} 17/490 b : No. 2 in C min

Come away, Death {song from Twelfth Night} / Thomas Arne -- words by Shakespeare; ed. John Coates {Novello} 17/016-6

Come away, come away, Death / Gerald Finzi {solo v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 17/190.5

Come away, Death Op. 9 no. 2: [song] / Benjamin Dale {Novello} 17/144.7(2) : No. 2 in E [low]

Falstaff and the fairies ('Round about in a fair ring-a') {In Windsor Forest no. 3}: [mixed vv.- SATB] / Ralph Vaughan-Williams -- words by Shakespeare, Ravenscroft and Lyly {OUP} 01/076-6.5 [3]

Five Shakespeare songs (2nd set) Op. 23 / Roger Quilter {Boosey} 10/076 [4]

Four old English songs / Eric Coates {Boosey} 09/041 a : low v.

Four old English songs / Eric Coates {Boosey} 09/041 b : med. v.

Four Shakespeare songs / E J Moeran {Novello} 09/123

Four Shakespeare sonnets (2013): for baritone and string orchestra or baritone and piano / Roger Steptoe Spec Coll

Full fathom five: song for low v. / Martin Shaw {Cramer} 17/510-14

I know a bank: voc. duet / Charles Edward Horn {Broome} 18/075-1

I know a bank / Martin Shaw {solo v. : Cramer} 17/510-11 a-b

In Springtime: duet for sop. & contr., sop. & bar., or ten. & bar. / Ernest Newton {Boosey & Hawkes} 18/109-2 : No. 2 in A (sop. & contr.)

In Windsor Forest: cantata for mixed voices adapted from the opera 'Sir John in Love' / Ralph Vaughan-Williams {OUP} 01/076-6.5

The conspiracy ('Sigh no more, ladies') {In Windsor Forest no. 1}: for women's vv. (SSA) / Ralph Vaughan-Williams {OUP} 01/076-6.5 [1]

It was a lover and his lass Op. 23 no. 3: duet (sop. & contr.) / Roger Quilter {Boosey & Hawkes} 18/127-1 a-b : No. 3 [in F]

Lo! here the gentle lark: song [with flute accomp.] / Henry Bishop {Chappell} 17/078-1 a

Lo! here the gentle lark: [song] with flute accomp. / Henry Bishop {Walsh, Holmes} 17/078-1 b

Lo! here the gentle lark: song with flute obbl. (ad lib.) / Henry Bishop {Paxton} 17/078-1 c

The Merry Wives of Windsor: opera / Otto Nicolai -- libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on Shakespeare's play 06/035

A Midsummer Night's Dream (libr.): opera in 3 acts / Benjamin Britten -- adapted from Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears {Boosey & Hawkes} 03/025-1

O mistress mine Op. 9 no. 1: [song] / Benjamin Dale {Novello} 10/087 [8]

O mistress mine {from Three Shakespeare songs} Op. 6 no. 2: song / Roger Quilter {Boosey & Hawkes} 17/462-6 : No. 1 in Eb also at 09/147-2 [2]

Orpheus / Frederic Austin {solo v. : Boosey & Hawkes} 17/020

Orpheus with his lute / William Linley {solo v. : OUP} 17/345.5

Orpheus with his lute / Arthur Sullivan -- words from Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII' {solo v. : Cramer} 17/544-5 : No. 2 in A

Orpheus with his lute {from Henry VIII}: song / Ralph Vaughan-Williams {Keith, Prowse} 17/555-2 a-b : No. 1 in F

Orpheus with his lute {from Henry VIII}: song / Ralph Vaughan-Williams {Keith, Prowse} 17/555-2 c : No. 2 in G

Orpheus with his lute / Jack Westrup {solo v. : Augener} 17/570.4(3)

Saint Crispin's Day {from Agincourt}: King Henry's song / Rutland Boughton -- words adapted from Shakespeare {Joseph Williams} 17/092-6

Serenade to music: [for SATB soli & chor.] / Ralph Vaughan-Williams -- words from Merchant of Venice {OUP} 01/076-8 a-c

Seven songs Op. 36: for mixed chor.& small orch. [p. red.] / John Gardner -- words by Elizabethan poets Shakespeare, Herrick, Jonson and Wotton {OUP} 18/060

She never told her love / Joseph Haydn {contr. : Paxton} 17/264-1 a-b : contr.

She never told her love / Joseph Haydn -- [words from] Shakespeare['s Twelfth Night] {solo v. : Stainer & Bell} 17/264-1 c

Should he upbraid / Henry Bishop {solo v. : Schirmer} 17/078-2

Sigh no more: [song] / W A Aikin {Stainer & Bell} 10/087 [13] : No. 1 in F

Sigh no more: song / W A Aikin {Stainer & Bell} 17/006 : No. 3 in Ab

Sigh no more, ladies / Peter Warlock {solo v. : OUP} 17/563-9

Six songs from Shakespeare / Hubert J Foss {OUP} 09/072.1

So are you to my thoughts / Maurice Johnstone {solo v. : Alfred Lengnick} 17/301

Sweet-and-twenty: [song] / Peter Warlock {OUP} 17/563-12 : low key (F)

Three Shakespeare songs: for med. v. / Madeleine Dring {Alfred Lengnick} 09/060

Three Shakespeare songs (1st set) Op. 6 / Roger Quilter {Boosey} 09/147-2 a-b : No. 1 low v. (?) also at 10/076 [2]

When icicles hang by the wall / Roger Quilter {solo v. : Boosey} 17/462-18 : No. 2 in Eb

Who is Silvia? / Roger Quilter {solo v. : Boosey} 10/045-6 [7] : No. 2 in F

Who is Silvia? / Arthur K Duff {solo v. : OUP} 17/169-1

The willow song {from Shakespeare's Othello} / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor {Metzler} 17/133-5 : No. 2 in F min

 

Sunday 7th December 2025

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