KSS21 Trois poèmes pour chant et piano
Piece details
- Written for: Voice and Piano
- Date composed: 1918–19
- Dedicatee: Marthe Martine
- Approximate duration (minutes): 7
- Manuscript pages: 9
- Manuscript location: Private collection
- Comments: Published (London and Continental Music Publishing 1921). The three songs are:
- Correspondances (Baudelaire)
- Crépuscule du soir mystique (Verlaine)
- Pantomime (Verlaine)
The manuscript survives for the third song Pantomime only.
Editions available from the Sorabji Archive
- Copy of publication, A4P. 9 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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- Manuscript, A3L. 4 pages.
Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings
- Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano),
Centaur Records CRC2613 (2002)
Track 1-3 (6:49)
Track 1 Correspondances (2:41)
Track 2 Crépuscule du soir mystique (2:42)
Track 3 Pantomime (1:26)
Performances
- 02/06/1921 Marthe Martine (soprano), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
Société des Agriculteurs de France, Paris, France
Société Musicale Indépendante
- 25/02/1989 Jo Ann Pickens (soprano), Jean-Bernard Marie (piano)
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- 01/03/1991 Hieke Meppelink (soprano), Robert Nasveld (piano)
De IJsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lunchtime concert
- 30/03/1991 Janice Lewis (soprano), Elvira Froese (piano)
John Aird Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Student Recital
- 09/03/1995 Judith Burns (soprano), Brian Inglis (piano) [iii]
Performance Area, Department of Music, City University, London, UK
- 03/11/2000 Sarah Leonard (soprano), Stephen Gutman (piano)
Conway Hall, London, UK
Planet Tree Festival
- 24/10/2001 Jacqueline Pischorn (soprano), Alex Szram (piano)
Southwark Cathedral, London, UK
Lunchtime concert
- 14/11/2002 Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano)
Merkin Hall, New York NY, USA
- 13/02/2004 Sarah Leonard (soprano), Jonathan Powell (piano)
St Cyprian’s Church, London, UK
- 09/04/2008 Natasha Jouhl (soprano), Philip Smith (piano)
Chiesa di Santa Cristina della Fondazza, Bologna, Italy
- 12/04/2011 Amy Fuller (soprano), Kent Conrad (piano)
Memorial Room, Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois , Urbana, IL, USA
Doctoral recital
- 05/01/2014 Patricia Rozario (soprano), Parvesh Java (piano) [ii/iii]
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
- 23/11/2014 Gina Fergione (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Scobie (piano) [ii]
Sutton House, Stoke Newington, London, UK
Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival
- 12/05/2015 Lily Scott (soprano), Gemma Beeson (piano)
The Venue, Leeds College of Music, Leeds, UK
- 19/07/2015 Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Anne le Bozec (piano) [i/ii]
l'Eglise de La Grave, Pays de la Meije, Paris, France
18ème Festival Messiaen
- 22/10/2021 Mary Bevan (soprano), Michael Dussek (piano) [i]
St. John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, UK
Oxford Lieder Festival 2021: Baudelaire in Song
Broadcasts etc.
- 03/06/1979 Jane Manning (soprano), Yonty Solomon (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [broadcast]
- 06/02/1984 Jane Manning (soprano), Yonty Solomon (piano)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [repeat broadcast]
- 28/07/1984 Jane Manning (soprano), Yonty Solomon (piano) [ii]
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [repeat broadcast]
- 26/07/1988 Jane Manning (soprano), Yonty Solomon (piano) [i,iii]
Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK [recording]
Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture
- 27/02/1991 Jane Manning (soprano), Yonty Solomon (piano) [i]
Lecture Room A, Music Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [recording]
Oxford University Contemporary Music Group, Illustrated Lecture (Alistair Hinton)
- 09/08/1992 Ingrid Schmidhüsen (soprano), Thomas Palm (piano)
Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [broadcast of recording]
Hauptabteilung E-Musik, Redaktion Neue Musik
- 28/08/2003 Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano)
WPRB, Princeton NJ, USA [broadcast of recording]
“Classical Discoveries” programme
