Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by K. Sorabji

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (Five Sonnets of Michelagniolo Buonarroti), KSS 36 ENG
• no. 1. Tu sa, ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
• no. 2. Non so se s'è la desïata luce (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG GER GER GER
• no. 3. A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE LIT SPA
• no. 4. Veggio nel tuo bel viso, signor mio (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
• no. 5. Se nel volto per gli occhi il cor si vede (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
• Symphony [no. 2], “Jāmī”, KSS 72
• In solitude, where Being signless dwelt (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami) ⊗
• Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine, KSS 37
• no. 1. L'allée (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
• no. 2. À la promenade (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER ITA
• no. 3. Dans la grotte (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG
• Trois poèmes, KSS 65
• no. 1. Le faune (Text: Paul Verlaine) CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER HUN
• no. 2. Les chats (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG ENG ENG
• no. 3. La dernière fête galante (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG
• Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī, KSS 42
• no. 1. La lampe (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• no. 2. La jalousie (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• no. 3. La fidélité (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• Trois poèmes pour chant et piano, KSS 21
• no. 1. Correspondances (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG HUN POR
• no. 2. Crépuscule du soir mystique (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG ENG GER
• no. 3. Pantomime (Text: Paul Verlaine) CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

• A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia, KSS 36 no. 3 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE LIT SPA
• À la promenade, KSS 37 no. 2 (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER ITA
• Arabesque, KSS 24 (Text: Anonymous after Shamsuddin Ibrahim Mirza) ⊗ ENG
• Benedizione di San Francesco d’Assisi, KSS 91 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Correspondances, KSS 21 no. 1 (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG HUN POR
• Crépuscule du soir mystique, KSS 21 no. 2 (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG ENG GER
• Dans la grotte, KSS 37 no. 3 (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG
• Frammento cantato, KSS 88 (Text: Harold Morland)
• In solitude, where Being signless dwelt, KSS 72 (Text: Edward Browne after Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami) ⊗
• I was not sorrowful, KSS 11 (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) SPA
• La dernière fête galante, KSS 65 no. 3 (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG
• La fidélité, KSS 42 no. 3 (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• La jalousie, KSS 42 no. 2 (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• La lampe, KSS 42 no. 1 (Text: Franz Toussaint after Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī) ⊗ ENG ENG
• L'allée, KSS 37 no. 1 (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ENG GER
• Le faune, KSS 65 no. 1 (Text: Paul Verlaine) CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER HUN
• Le mauvais jardinier, KSS 11a (Text: Iwan Gilkin) ENG ENG
• Les chats, KSS 65 no. 2 (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG ENG ENG
• L'irrémédiable, KSS 44 (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE ENG ENG
• Music to "The Rider by Night", KSS 22 (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols , as Edward Lightfoot)
• Non so se s'è la desïata luce, KSS 36 no. 2 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG GER GER GER
• Pantomime, KSS 21 no. 3 (Text: Paul Verlaine) CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER
• Se nel volto per gli occhi il cor si vede, KSS 36 no. 5 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
• Tu sa, ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai, KSS 36 no. 1 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG ENG ENG FRE GER LIT SPA
• Veggio nel tuo bel viso, signor mio, KSS 36 no. 4 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER

• op. 1.
  • no. 1. Chrysilla, KSS 2 (Text: Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier) ENG ENG ENG
  • no. 2. Roses du soir, KSS 3 (Text: Pierre-Félix Louis , as Pierre Louÿs) ENG ENG ENG GER
• op. 2.
  • no. 1. The poplars, KSS 1 (Text: Paul Selver after Jovan Dučić)
  • no. 2. L'heure exquise, KSS 4 (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN GER GER GER GER GER GER GRE HUN HUN HUN ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• op. 4.
  • no. 2. Hymne à Aphrodite, KSS 8 (Text: Laurent Tailhade) ENG ENG
  • no. 3. Apparition, KSS 7 (Text: Stéphane Mallarmé) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG GER JPN POL
• op. 9. L'étang, KSS 10 (Text: Maurice Rollinat) ENG ENG

Last update: 2025-04-16 21:26:03