Settings of English poets by foreign composers

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Beethoven – The British Light Dragoons
Mendelssohn – When through the piazetta
Schumann – My soul is dark
Franz – My love is like a red, red rose
Hindemith – Echo
Reutter – Hamlet's first monologue
Fortner – Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Henze – In Memoriam LKA
Haydn – She never told her love
Schubert – Who is Sylvia?
Wolf – There be none of beauty's daughters
Korngold O mistress mine
De Sévérac – A Dream
Hahn – The swing
Ravel – Ye banks and braes
Poulenc – Tell me, where is fancy bred
Rubinstein – The Tear
Stravinsky – The owl and the pussy-cat
Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Take, O take those lips away
Berkeley – D'un vanneur de blé
Berners – Du bist wie eine Blume
Britten – Michelangelo Sonnet XXXVIII
Sibelius – Come away, Death & When that I was a little tiny boy

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