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Songs from the Chinese Poets

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Songs from the Chinese Poets are series of song settings, twenty-five in all, by Granville Bantock. The English song texts were mainly supplied by Captain L. A. Cranmer Byng (1872-1945), who had also supplied the text for Choral Suite from the Chinese (1914). Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng was part of the Byng baronets family and wrote various books on China.

Contents

Songs

Songs from the Chinese, Series I (1918)

  • The Old Fisherman of the Mists and Waters
  • The Ghost Road (Tu Fu)
  • Under the Moon
  • The Celestial Weaver
  • Return of Spring


    • Songs from the Chinese, Series II, (1919)

  • The Tomb of Chao-Chun
  • A Dream of Spring (Ts'en Ts'an)
  • Desolation (Kao-Shih)
  • The Island of Pines
  • The Pavillon of Abundant Joy


    • Songs from the Chinese, Series III

  • A Feast of Lanterns (Yuan Mei)
  • Adrift (Li Po)
    • (list incomplete)

    Recordings

    John McCormack (tenor) recorded "Desolation" in Australia in 1927.

    References

    Songs from the Chinese Poets Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA