Christopher Hassall

About the artist

Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 – 25 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after working together in the same touring company. He was also a noted biographer of Rupert Brooke (1964, Faber and Faber) and Edward Marsh (1958, James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1959). more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hassall

Top songs

  1. Daffodils
  2. Daffodils by William Wordsworth
  3. Piano (D H Lawrence)
  4. Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
  5. "Batter My Heart"
  6. Upon Westminster Bridge
  7. There Was a Boy
  8. "The World Is Too Much With Us"
  9. The Good Morrow
  10. The Sun Rising
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  1. "Death Be Not Proud"
  2. William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
  3. Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
  4. Piano by D. H. Lawrence
  5. The Ecstasy
  6. D.H. Lawrence: Piano / Snake
  7. The Anniversary
  8. The Good Morrow by John Donne
  9. "At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners"
  10. Hymn To God The Father
  11. Twickenham Gardens
  12. The Canonization
  13. The Solitary Reaper
  14. Death Be Not Proud
  15. "Surprised By Joy"
  16. Ode: Intimations Of Immortality from Recollections Of Early Childhood
  17. Twickenham Garden by John Donne
  18. The Tables Turned
  19. "Thou Hast Made Me"
  20. Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
  21. Lines Written In Early Spring
  22. "There Was A Boy"
  23. The Craftsman
  24. The Funeral
  25. Piano
  26. Daffodils (Wordsworth)
  27. Robert Graves: 1805 / The Chink / The Survivor
  28. James Elroy Flecker: The Old Ships
  29. "O Friend, I Know Not Which Way I Must Look"
  30. Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs / Shut Out That Moon / At a Lunar Eclipse / An Ancient to Ancients
  31. "Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour"
  32. Twickenham Garden
  33. Surprised By Joy
  34. Walton: Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "At the haunted end of the day" (Cressida)
  35. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: (Adagio) - Vision of Troas (Chorus/Calkas)
  36. Thou Hast Made Me
  37. Walton: Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "How can I sleep?" (Cressida)
  38. Death Be Not Proud (Donne)
  39. Ode: Intimations of Immortality (‘Recollections of Early Childhood’) (Wordsworth)
  40. Ode: Intimations of Immortality - Recollections of Early Childhood
  41. "It Is Not To Be Thought Of"
  42. Batter My Heart
  43. Arms & The Boy by Wilfred Owen
  44. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Nothing but Troilus' patronage (Pandarus/Cressida/Evadne)
  45. The World Is Too Much With Us
  46. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Is Cressida a slave? -
  47. At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
  48. Walton: Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Final Scene: "Diomede!... Father!... Pandarus!" (Cressida)
  49. Robert Graves: 1805 / The Chink / The Survivor
  50. The Tables Are Turned
  51. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Forgive me ... Pandarus! ... Passing through the city (Pandarus/Troilus)
  52. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Slowly it all comes back (Cressida/Evadne)
  53. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1: If one last doubt (Troilus/Cressida)
  54. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 2: From isle to isle chill waters (Cressida/Troilus)
  55. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: So here's an end of it all (Evadne/Watchmen)
  56. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1: How can I sleep? -
  57. Waltz Of My Heart (from "The Dancing Years")
  58. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Prince Troilus! (A Soldier/Pandarus/Troilus/Chorus/A Priest)
  59. Walter de la Mare: All That's Past / The Railway Junction / Silver / Song of the Mad Prince / The Owl
  60. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Ten long years have dragged (Calkas/Chorus/Antenor)
  61. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Back to your hovels (Troilus/Antenor/Chorus)
  62. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Child of the wine-dark wave (Troilus)
  63. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Morning and evening (Cressida/Troilus)
  64. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: O Pallas, virgin daughter (Chorus of Priests/Calkas/Cressida/Evadne/Pandarus)
  65. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act One: Dear Child, you need a littel comfort (Pandarus/Cressida/Trioilus)
  66. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1: (Allegretto) - Does talking put you off? (Pandarus/Cressida/Horaste/Evadne)
  67. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1: Hush! Don't be alarmed! (Pandarus/Cressida/Troilus)
  68. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 2: Interlude (A tempo tempetuoso) (Orchestra)
  69. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 2: Who would go drumming about the town? (Pandarus/Cressida)
  70. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 2: My name is Diomede (Diomede/Pandarus)
  71. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 2: Oh, I'm no use, no use (Pandarus/Diomede/Troilus/Cressida/Evadne)
  72. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: What is thus sudden alarm? (Troilus/Chors/Cressida/Pandarus/Diomede)
  73. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Troy, false of heart, yet fair! (Diomede/Troilus/Cressida/Pandarus/Calkas/Evadne/Chorus)
  74. Thomas Hardy: Snow In the Suburbs / Shut Out That Moon / At a Lunar Eclipse / an Ancient to Ancients
  75. King's Rhapsody: Muranian Rhapsody
  76. King's Rhapsody: Some day my heart will awake
  77. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Diomede! ... Father! ... (Cressida)
  78. The Old Ships (James Elroy Flecker)
  79. Thomas Hardy: Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
  80. The Old Ships - James Elroy Flecker
  81. Good Friday 1613 Riding Westward
  82. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1: At the haunted end of the day (Cressida)
  83. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: (Lugubre) - Is there no word? (Watchmen/Cressida/Evadne)
  84. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: No answering sign on the walls (Cressida/Watchmen)
  85. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Cressid, daughter (Calkas)
  86. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: O gods, O deathless gods (Cressida)
  87. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Proud, wondrous Cressida (Diomede/Cressida)
  88. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Evadne ... Evadne ... Troilus! (Troilus/Pandarus/Evadne/Cressida)
  89. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: WIll I please him thus? (Cressida/Evadne/Troilus/Pandarus)
  90. Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Troilus, you must not die for me (Cressida/Troilus/Diomede/Calkas/Pandarus)

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