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Composer / title | Description | Subject |
Berlioz (1803-1869) | ||
Les nuits d’été: | ||
1. Villanelle | Spring/Wedding anniversary/Birthday | Fresh and cheerful spring song; let's go and pick strawberries in the woods. |
2. Le spectre de la Rose | Love | I am the lucky rose that was picked to shine as the ornament on your breast all evening. |
6. L’ île inconnue | Love /Birthday | Cheerful piece in which you are able to hear the sound of the waves and the wind. I am on a little sailing boat, searching for the island where love never dies. |
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Bernstein (1918-1990) | | |
I hate music: | Humoristic/Father's Day/ Mother's Day/Secretary Day/Birthday | Humoristic song cycle of five short pieces, lyrics and music by Leonard Bernstein. All five songs from a ten year old girl's point of view. |
1. My name is Barbara | ||
2. Jupiter has seven moons | ||
3. I hate music | ||
4. A big Indian and a little Indian | ||
5. I’m a person too | ||
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Bizet (1838-1875) | ||
Chanson d’Avril | Spring | Let's go outside and enjoy the spring weather. |
Tarantelle | Birthday/Secretary Day/Father's Day/Mother's Day | Virtuoso piece about the flight of a butterfly. |
Ouvre ton coeur | Valentine's Day | Open your heart to my love. |
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Brahms (1883-1897) | ||
Ein Wanderer | Leaving | Not very cheerful song about a traveller who doesn't belong anywhere. |
.An die Stolze | A making-up song with an edge | You are so proud, but I still love you. |
Vom Strande | Leaving | I am shouting from the beach to the ship sailing on the sea on which my beloved is sailing away. |
Heel kort liedje; zeg, kom jij niet uit Newcastle/ken ik jou niet ergens van? | ||
Britten (1913-1976) | ||
.Embroidery aria (uit: Peter Grimes) | Father's Day/ Mother's Day | A knitted jumper reminds me of my carefree childhood. |
Sail on, sail on | Retirement | Sail on little boat, away from the man who broke my heart. |
Come you not from Newcastle | Funny little piece | Very short song; don't I know you from somewhere? |
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Debussy (1862-1918) | ||
Fleur des Blés | Valentine's Day | I will pick a bunch of flowers for you; the cornflowers are like your eyes. I think you must have already guessed that I am in love with you. |
Fantoches | Birthday | Absurd little song about the Italian commedia dell’arte characters. |
Nuits d’étoiles | Love | This rose is your breath and the stars are your eyes. |
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Fauré (1845-1924) | ||
Au bord de l’eau | Wedding anniversary/ Retirement | To stay in love together, watching the world go by. |
Lydia | For Lydias | Beautiful Lydia. |
Sylvie | For Sylvias | Beautiful Sylvia. |
Le papillon et la fleur | Love /Secretary Day/Retirement// Leaving /Birthday/ Humoristic song with added butterfly net | I am a flower and would love for the butterfly that visits me everyday to stay with me. Oh, if only I had wings or if you would have roots so that we could stay together! |
Les roses d’Ispahan | Love , or for women called Leilah | You are more beautiful than roses and more exquisite than a summer's breeze. |
Rêve d’amour | Valentine's Day/Proposal/Wedding anniversary | Lover's dream: I would like to make the path where you put your feet. |
Après un rêve | Love /Proposal/Wedding anniversary | In my dream I am with you. |
Aurore | Love | With the breaking of the dawn, the stars are fleeing like my dreams, but they are fleeing to your feet. |
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Finzi (1901-1956) | ||
.The lily has a smooth stalk | Wedding anniversary | Comparison between flowers with thorns and love. Poem by Christina Rossetti. |
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Giordani (1751-1798) | ||
.Caro mio ben | Valentine's Day/Love /Proposal/Wedding anniversary | Please believe me, my love, without you I am lost. |
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Grieg (1843-1907) | ||
Zur Rosenzeit | Leaving | Just like the roses that have died, your love for me is gone. We had such a beautiful time together. |
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Handel (1685-1759) | ||
.V’adoro, pupille (uit: Giulio Cesare) | Valentine's Day/Love /Proposal | I adore your eyes. |
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Haydn (1732-1809) | ||
.With verdure clad (uit: the Creation/Die Schöpfung) | Spring/Summer | Virtuoso piece about green meadows and woodland. |
Benedictus (uit: Kleine Orgelmesse) | Birth | Blessed is the one who will arrive. |
A pastoral song | Innocent girl's song/ Mother's Day | Mother tells me to put on my new dress and go out, but I just want to cry about the loss of my boyfriend. |
Piercing eyes | Love /Valentine's Day | Your beautiful eyes see right through me and my being in love with you. |
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Mozart (1756-1791) | ||
Porgi Amor (uit: Le nozze di Figaro) | Love / Mozart hit song/Comfort | Please come back to me my love. |
Giunse alfin il momento, Deh vieni non tardar (uit: Le nozze di Figaro) | Proposal | I am in the garden waiting for my loved one. Come on, hurry up! |
Un moto di gioja | Birthday | A feeling of joy is overtaking me. |
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Pergolesi (1710-1736) | ||
Se tu m’ami | Love | Flirty song; yes I like you, but there are more fish in the sea. |
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Poulenc (1899-1963) | ||
Banalités: | Retirement/ Leaving | |
1. Chanson d’Orkenise | In front of the town gate a porter and a rambler are waiting to come in. A conversation with the town guards ensues. | |
2. Hôtel | I am lying on my bed in my hotel room and feel lazy in the summer sun. I don't feel like going to work at all but instead would love to stay here and smoke my cigarette. | |
3. Fagnes de Wallonie | Stormy hike across the Walloon planes. | |
4. Voyage à Paris | Ah to go to Paris, city of love! | |
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Puccini (1858-1924) | ||
Oh mio babbino caro (uit: Gianni Schicchi) | Father's Day | Please dad, just let me go out with my sweetheart tonight. |
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Purcell (1659-1695) | ||
If music be the food of love | Proposal/Father's Day/Secretary Day/Mother's Day/ Retirement/Birthday | Virtuoso ode to music. |
Sweeter than roses | Valentine's Day/Wedding anniversary/Love /Proposal | A whole song about the first kiss. |
What can we poor females do | Mother's Day/Secretary Day | Us women have a lot to deal with: men! |
Man is for the woman made | Wedding anniversary/Proposal | Man and woman belong together. Including saucy lyrics. |
The fatal hour | Love | If you leave me, I will crumble because I only live for you. |
Music for a while | Comfort | Music makes all your sorrows disappear for a moment. |
Since from my dear | Love | Since she left me, I am worth nothing. |
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Satie (1866-1925) | ||
Ludions: | Birthday | Song cycle, consisting of five short pieces: modern music, fantasy animals and other weirdness. |
1. Air du Rat | ||
2. Spleen | ||
3. La grenouille américaine | ||
4. Air du poète | ||
5. Chanson du chat | ||
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Scarlatti (1660-1725) | ||
Se Florindo è Fedele | Love | If Florindo proves to be loyal, I could fall in love with him. |
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Schubert (1797-1828) | ||
An die Musik | Father's Day/Comfort/Secretary Day/ Retirement | Ode to music. |
Ständchen | Father's Day/ Mother's Day | Famous melody. I hope my song will float to you on the evening breeze. |
Aufenthalt | Retirement | Tumultuous description of nature in comparison to a broken heart. |
Die Männer sind mechant | Mother's Day, Humoristic | My mother did tell me several times: men! |
In der Ferne | Retirement | Captivating song about someone who broken heartedly travels away from their loved one. |
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Schumann (1810-1856) | ||
Lust der Sturmnacht | Comfort | Stormy weather outside, while we are here in the cosy warmth of our house. |
An den Mond | Comfort | Ode to the moon. |
Lied der Suleika | Valentine's Day/Love / Retirement/ Leaving | Even when I am far away, I adore you. My heart is your mirror. |
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Stravinsky (1882-1971) | ||
Quietly night (uit: The Rake's Progress) | Love / Comfort/ Retirement/ Leaving | Night and moon; please lead me to my loved one in the big city. |
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Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) | ||
Songs of travel: | ||
2. Let beauty awake | Spring/Love | The breaking of the dawn; beauty awakes. |
7. Whither must I wander? | Leaving / Retirement | The house where I once lived is empty and everybody has left. Where should I go? |
8. Bright is the ring of words | Leaving | After the singer has died, his music will remain. |