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Title of the work

Song Cycle to Poetry

Composer
Seiber Mátyás
Original / Hungarian title
Song Cycle to Poetry
Foreign language / English title
Song Cycle to Poetry
Subtitle
For high voice and piano
Dedication
for Peter Pears
Year of composition
1953
Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
T. (or S.), pf.
Duration
15 min
Movements, parts
1. Invocation
2. Sonnet
3. Tears
4. Timor Motis
5. Epilogue
Text
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang; SHAKESPEARE, William; DUNBAR, William; anonymous
Language
English
Premiere information
22 May 1953, Royal Festival House, London; Peter Pears (T.) Noel Mewton-Woods (pf.)
Publisher / Source
Edition Schott © 1954, ED 10329
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD-32405, 2005 - Lesley-Jane Rogers (S.), Zsuzsa Kollár (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Based on poems by Goethe, Shakespeare, William Dunbar and an anonymous poet

English translations by Louis MacNeice