Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by B. Rands

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Apókryphos
• Mein Volk (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG FRE
• Canti del sole
• no. 1. Mattina (Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti)
• no. 2. The Dawn Verse (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• no. 3. From "The Masque of the Twelve Months" (Text: George Chapman) CHI
• no. 4. From "Soleil et Chair" (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
• no. 5. Portami il girasole ch'io lo trapianti (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
• no. 6. I turn the corner of prayer and burn (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• no. 7. Sinisgalli
• no. 8. Futility (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE SPA
• no. 9. September (Text: Peter Huchel) * ENG
• no. 10. November by the Sea (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• no. 11. Fadensonnen (Text: Paul Antschel , as Paul Celan)
• no. 12. Harmonie du soir (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE ENG ENG GER HUN POL ROM RUS SPA
• no. 13. Sunset Verse (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• no. 14. Ed è sùbito sera (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo) FRE
• Canti lunatici
• no. 1. Ed è sùbito sera (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo) FRE
• no. 2. Simples (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 3. Welcome to the moon (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 4. La luna asoma (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG ENG FRE GER
• no. 5. Ein in sich gekehrter Mond (Text: Jean Arp)
• no. 6. The moon (Text: William Blake)
• no. 7. Romance de la luna (Text: Federico García Lorca) FRE FRE GER RUS
• no. 8. Ein großes Mondtreffen ist anberaumt worden (Text: Jean Arp)
• no. 9. Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 10. From "The Moon and the Yew Tree" (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 11. Ein Mond aus Blut (Text: Jean Arp)
• no. 12. Amer au goût ce soir, jaloux (Text: Antonin Artaud)
• no. 13. Moonrise (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• no. 14. The waning moon (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• no. 15. Finita è la notte (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Amer au goût ce soir, jaloux (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Antonin Artaud)
• Ballad 2 (Text: Gilbert Sorrentino) [x]*
• Ed è sùbito sera (in Canti del sole) (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo) FRE
• Ed è sùbito sera (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo) FRE
• Ein großes Mondtreffen ist anberaumt worden (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Jean Arp)
• Ein in sich gekehrter Mond (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Jean Arp)
• Ein Mond aus Blut (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Jean Arp)
• Fadensonnen (in Canti del sole) (Text: Paul Antschel , as Paul Celan)
• Finita è la notte (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Salvatore Quasimodo)
• From "Soleil et Chair" (in Canti del sole) (Text: Arthur Rimbaud)
• From "The Masque of the Twelve Months" (in Canti del sole) (Text: George Chapman) CHI
• From "The Moon and the Yew Tree" (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Futility (in Canti del sole) (Text: Wilfred Owen) FRE SPA
• Harmonie du soir (in Canti del sole) (Text: Charles Baudelaire) CZE ENG ENG GER HUN POL ROM RUS SPA
• I turn the corner of prayer and burn (in Canti del sole) (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• La luna asoma (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Federico García Lorca) ENG ENG FRE GER
• Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Mattina (in Canti del sole) (Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti)
• Mein Volk (in Apókryphos) (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG FRE
• Metalepsis 2 (Text: John Barrington Wain) [x]*
• Moonrise (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• November by the Sea (in Canti del sole) (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• Portami il girasole ch'io lo trapianti (in Canti del sole) (Text: Eugenio Montale) *
• Romance de la luna (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Federico García Lorca) FRE FRE GER RUS
• September (in Canti del sole) (Text: Peter Huchel) * ENG
• Simples (in Canti lunatici) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Sinisgalli (in Canti del sole)
• Sunset Verse (in Canti del sole) (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• The Dawn Verse (in Canti del sole) (Text: D. H. Lawrence)
• The moon (in Canti lunatici) (Text: William Blake)
• The waning moon (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• Welcome to the moon (in Canti lunatici) (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗

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