Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by O. Knussen

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Oliver Knussen, CBE (1952 - 2018)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

no. 1. epigram (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
no. 2. Idol (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
no. 3. Gravity (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
no. 4. Imaginary life (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
no. 5. Gong (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE FRE

Requiem; Songs for Sue, op. 33 [oratorio]

no. 4. Ich habe Tote, und ich ließ sie hin (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG

Rosenkranz Lieder (Rosary songs, translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 9 ENG

no. 1. An die Schwester (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE
no. 2. Nähe des Todes (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE
no. 3. Amen (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE

Whitman Settings, op. 25

no. 1. When I heard the learn'd astronomer (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. A noiseless patient spider (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. The dalliance of the eagles (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. The voice of the rain (Text: Walt Whitman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Amen, op. 9 no. 3 (in Rosenkranz Lieder) (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE
An die Schwester, op. 9 no. 1 (in Rosenkranz Lieder) (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE
A noiseless patient spider, op. 25 no. 2 (in Whitman Settings) (Text: Walt Whitman)
epigram (in Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke ) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
Gong (in Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke ) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE FRE
Gravity (in Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke ) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
Ich habe Tote, und ich ließ sie hin, op. 33 no. 4 (in Requiem; Songs for Sue) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
Idol, op. 23 no. 2 (in Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke ) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
Imaginary life (in Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke ) (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
Nähe des Todes, op. 9 no. 2 (in Rosenkranz Lieder) (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG FRE
Océan de terre, op. 10 (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
The dalliance of the eagles, op. 25 no. 3 (in Whitman Settings) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The voice of the rain, op. 25 no. 4 (in Whitman Settings) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Trompeten (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG ENG FRE ITA
When I heard the learn'd astronomer, op. 25 no. 1 (in Whitman Settings) (Text: Walt Whitman)

Last update: 2023-09-13 20:00:31