Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by O. Knussen

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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 Opus order

• epigram (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Gong (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE FRE
• Gravity (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Ich habe Tote, und ich ließ sie hin (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
• Imaginary life (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Trompeten (Text: Georg Trakl) ENG ENG FRE ITA

• op. 9. Rosenkranz Lieder 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
• op. 10. Océan de terre (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
• op. 23.
  • no. 2. Idol (Text: Stephen Mitchell after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• op. 25. Whitman Settings
  • 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)
• op. 33. Requiem; Songs for Sue
  • no. 4. Ich habe Tote, und ich ließ sie hin (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG

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