Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Previn

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Five Songs
• no. 1. Morning has spread again (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 2. Home is so sad (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 3. Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 4. Talking in bed (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• no. 5. The trees (Text: Philip Larkin) * DUT
• Four Songs
• no. 1. Mercy (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• no. 2. Stones (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• no. 3. Shelter (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• no. 4. The Lacemaker (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• Four Songs for Tenor and Piano
• no. 1. Is it for now (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• no. 2. To write one song (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• no. 3. Ad infinitum (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• no. 4. The revelation (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison
• no. 1. First I'll try love (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• no. 2. Whose house is this? (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• no. 3. The town is lit (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• no. 4. Do you know him? (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• no. 5. I am not seaworthy (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• no. 6. Take my mother home (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• Three Arias from "A Streetcar Named Desire"
• no. 1. I want magic (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• no. 2. I can smell the sea air (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• no. 3. I was a boy (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• Three Dickinson Songs (Drei Dickinson-Lieder, translated by Bertram Kottmann) GER
• no. 1. As imperceptibly as grief (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• no. 2. Will there really be a morning (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 3. Good Morning -- Midnight (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Two Remembrances
• no. 1. A love song (Text: Michael J. Gillespie after Else Lasker-Schüler) *
• no. 2. Lyric (Text: Willis Barnstone after Ava) *

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Ad infinitum (in Four Songs for Tenor and Piano) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• A love song (in Two Remembrances) (Text: Michael J. Gillespie after Else Lasker-Schüler) *
• As imperceptibly as grief (in Three Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
• Do you know him? (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• First I'll try love (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel (in Five Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Good Morning -- Midnight (in Three Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Home is so sad (in Five Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• I am not seaworthy (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• I can smell the sea air (in Three Arias from "A Streetcar Named Desire") (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• Is it for now (in Four Songs for Tenor and Piano) (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• I want magic (in Three Arias from "A Streetcar Named Desire") (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• I was a boy (in Three Arias from "A Streetcar Named Desire") (Text: Philip Littell) [x]*
• Lyric (in Two Remembrances) (Text: Willis Barnstone after Ava) *
• Mercy (in Four Songs) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• Miss Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid (Text: Michael Ondaatje) *
• Morning has spread again (in Five Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• Shelter (in Four Songs) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• Stones (in Four Songs) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• Take my mother home (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• Talking in bed (in Five Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
• The giraffes go to Hamburg (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness , as Isak Dinesen) [x]*
• The Lacemaker (in Four Songs) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) [x]*
• The revelation (in Four Songs for Tenor and Piano) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• The town is lit (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• The trees (in Five Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) * DUT
• To write one song (in Four Songs for Tenor and Piano) (Text: Philip Larkin) *
• Whose house is this? (in Honey and Rue: Six songs for soprano and orchestra to words by Toni Morrison) (Text: Toni Morrison, née Chloe Anthony Wofford) *
• Will there really be a morning (in Three Dickinson Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER

Last update: 2023-05-10 18:23:51