KSS42 Trois Poèmes du Gulistān de Sa‘dī

Piece details

  • Written for: Voice and Piano
  • Date composed: 1926, revised 1930
  • Dedicatee: Erik Chisholm
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 11
  • Manuscript pages: 16/16
  • Manuscript location: One in the Sorabji Archive, another (fragmentary) in the J.W.Jagger Library, University of Cape Town
  • Comments: The three songs are:
    • La lampe;
    • La Jalousie;
    • La Fidelité.

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Typeset edition (Chappell Kingsland), A4P. 27+8 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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  • Manuscript (both versions), A3L. 16/16 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings

  • Christopher Grundy (baritone), Bryan Chuan (piano),
    BIS Records BIS-CD-2683 (July 2024)
    Track 16-18 (13:26)
    Track 16 I. La lampe (3:57)
    Track 17 II. La jalousie (3:25)
    Track 18 III. La fidelité (6:04)

Performances

  • 10/04/1999 Peter Clark (baritone), Christopher Berg (piano)
    Southwest Annex, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe CA, USA
    “An Evening of Music and Theater about Music (and other things)”
  • 05/03/2019 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Paula Fan (piano)
    Concert Room, Block Grove B, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London, UK