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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Swann

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Donald Ibrahim Swann (1923 - 1994)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Six poetic songs
    • no. 1. Marguerite (Text: David Marsh after Jean Froissart) [x]*
    • no. 3. Je suis le Ténébreux (Text: Gérard Labrunie , as Gérard de Nerval)
  • The Poetic Image. A Victorian Song Cycle for Medium Voice and Piano. Eleven Settings
    • The Harlot's House (Text: Oscar Wilde)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A subaltern's love-song (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • Dying (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
  • Je suis le Ténébreux (in Six poetic songs) (Text: Gérard Labrunie , as Gérard de Nerval)
  • Longing (Text: Leon Berger after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
  • Margate, 1940 (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • Marguerite (in Six poetic songs) (Text: David Marsh after Jean Froissart) [x]*
  • Requiem for the Living (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
  • Senex (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • Stopping by Woods (Text: Robert Frost) GER
  • The Harlot's House (in The Poetic Image. A Victorian Song Cycle for Medium Voice and Piano. Eleven Settings) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
  • The licorice field of Pontefract (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*

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