Though the world keeps changing its form [ ... ]
Sonnets to Orpheus (Book I)
Song Cycle by Richard Danielpour (b. 1956)
1. Prologue  [sung text checked 1 time]
Subtitle: Sonnet XIX
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 19
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Subtitle: Sonnet XV
Wait..., that tastes good.... But already it's gone [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 15
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. Elegy  [sung text checked 1 time]
Subtitle: Sonnet IX
Only he whose bright lyre [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 9
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Subtitle: Sonnet XXII
We are the driving ones [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 22
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Only in the realm of Praising, should Lament [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 8
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Subtitle: Sonnet XXIX
Silent friend of many distances, feel [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 29
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