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unusual facts about song cycle



Alexander Pushkin

Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle "Caprice étrange").

Arthur Somervell

He achieved success in his own day as a composer of choral works such as The Forsaken Merman (1895), Intimations of Immortality (which he conducted at Leeds Festival in 1907), and The Passion of Christ (1914) but is now chiefly remembered for his song cycles such as Maud (after Tennyson, 1898) and the first known setting (1904) of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Huw Watkins

He has recorded Thomas Adèssong cycle The Lover in Winter with the countertenor Robin Blaze for EMI Classics, and his recording of contemporary British music for violin and piano with Alexandra Wood was released on Usk in 2005.


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A Elbereth Gilthoniel

In 1967 Donald Swann published a musical rendition in the musical score of the song cycle The Road Goes Ever On.

Barry Smolin

Smolin he has released four albums, At Apogee (2004) and The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007) (both produced by Tony Award winning composer/dramatist Stew, best known for his musical Passing Strange), as well as a Los Angeles song-cycle entitled Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009).

Charles Martin Loeffler

His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles (after Maeterlinck), La Bonne Chanson (after Verlaine), A Pagan Poem (after Virgil), and Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies (to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan), and the chamber works Music for Four String Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano.

Clifford Dyment

The poem Mouse was set to music by Betty Roe as part of her song cycle of Cat and Mouse (1987).

Come On in My Kitchen

The melody is based on the song cycle by the string band the Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting on Top of the World" (1930)/Things About Coming My Way (1931)/I'll Be Gone, Long Gone (1932)/Hitting The Numbers (1934).

Elena Langer

Current work in progress includes a song cycle for Concerts at Cratfield (to be performed in August 2013) based on the poems of Lee Harwood.

Errantry

The sheet music and an audio recording are part of the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On.

From the Diary of Sally Hemings

From the Diary of Sally Hemings is a song cycle for voice and piano, with libretto by Sandra Seaton.

Gute Nacht

Gute Nacht, the first scene in Winterreise, a song cycle for voice and piano written by Franz Schubert and published in 1828

Hugh Wood

Song Cycle to Poems of Pablo Neruda for high voice and chamber orchestra, Op 19 (1973–1974)

Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary

In March 2012 they wrote a new song for A Song Cycle for Soho at Soho Theatre, starring Claire Moore, Michael Cantwell, Niamh Perry and James Gillan.

Jean de La Ville de Mirmont

Four of the poems, including the famous "Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés", were set to music by Gabriel Fauré in a song cycle of the same name.

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire (1884) marked a watershed in the moon-maddening of Pierrot, as did the song-cycle that Arnold Schoenberg derived from it (1912).

Jerrold Fisher

Jerrold also composed "Songs of Youth and Discovery," a five-part song cycle written with lyrics by Lawrence Leritz, which premiered in 2007 at the Sherman Theatre in Shroudsburg, PA. by the Pocono Choral Society.

Klepht

Dvořák, the Czech composer, wrote a song cycle named Three Modern Greek Poems: the first one is entitled "Koljas - Klepht Song" and tells the story of Koljas, the klepht who killed the famous Ali Pasha.

Kooman and Dimond

Homemade Fusion is a song cycle, and was originally produced at Carnegie Mellon University, and moved on to venues such as The Pittsburgh CLO's Cabaret Space, The Zipper Theater, and Monday Nights New Voices Chicago.

Moira O'Neill

From the first of these collections, composer Charles Villiers Stanford selected the six poems of his song-cycle 'An Irish Idyll' (publ. 1901), dedicated to baritone Harry Plunket Greene, which includes one of Stanford's best-known songs, 'The Fairy Lough'.

Old Wicked Songs

Through his teachings, Mashkan tells Hoffman that there is both "sadness and joy" in music and that he should experience real life examples to better connect him to the message of composer Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe and the poetry of Heinrich Heine.

Orchestral song

Aside from Grieg Scandinavian examples include Ture Rangström's Swedish cycle Häxorna ("The Witches") (1938) Den Utvalda ("The Chosen"), Madetoja's Syksy-sarja (Autumn Song Cycle), Selim Palmgren's En sällsam fågel (a lonely bird) and Aamun autereessa (in the morning mist), Danish composer Peter Lange-Müller's orchestrations of his songs, and Erik Norby's Rilke-Lieder for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.

Notable examples of the orchestral song cycle in Germany and Austria include Richard Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder and several cycles by Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde, Des Knaben Wundernhorn; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; and Kindertotenlieder.

Oscar Strasnoy

He also composed several pieces of chamber, vocal and orchestral music, including his song cycle Six Songs for the Unquiet Traveller which premiered in 2004 performed by the Nash Ensemble and Ann Murray in a concert to inaugurate the newly refurbished Wigmore Hall in London.

Patrick Hawes

In May 2012 Patrick completed a song cycle in Welsh for Elin Manahan Thomas based on the poems of 13th century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym.

Reynaldo Hahn

While at the front he composed a song cycle based on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Rick Kemp

Examples include the song "Take My Heart" about the death of Robert the Bruce, and the song cycle about the Luddite movement that he contributed to the 2006 album Bloody Men.

Rita Connolly

She is primarily known for her work with composer Shaun Davey who wrote a song cycle for her called 'Granuaile' based on the 16th-century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley as well as including her in other of his works such as 'The Relief of Derry Symphony', 'The Pilgrim Suite' and his Special Olympics music which was specially composed in 2003.

Robert Pinget

In 1962, Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six set eleven of his poems in a song cycle entitled "Pancarte pour Une Porte D'Entrée" (roughly translated as "Handbill for an Entrance") for medium voice and piano, commissioned by the American Soprano and Arts Patron Alice Swanson Esty.

Robert Schumann in Three Pieces

The first piece, entitled Ash on the Ground is a passacaglia in which various compositions by Schumann are quoted; the second piece, entitled Love in a Life has a soprano soloist, and is a miniature song cycle to texts by Robert Schumann himself, along with poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Rudolf Rojahn

His song cycle Lust based on the novel by Efriede Jelinek was staged by Sanford Sylvan for the Boston Conservatory's Opera Department in 2007.

Songs of Youth and Discovery

"Songs of Youth and Discovery" is a five-part song cycle written by composer Jerrold Fisher and lyrics by Lawrence Leritz.

Stanley Babin

His recent works include a song cycle set to poetry by Emily Dickinson.

Sylvie Bodorová

She wrote piano concerto Come d'accordo for Prague Philharmonia and pianist Martin Kasík, premiered in February 2006, Song Cycle Slovak Songs for Štefan Margita and Gabriela Beňačková – the cycle was recorded in 2006 – and Amor tenet omnia – cycle of choruses on the texts from Carmina Burana premiered in Luxembourg and France in August 2007.

Tea Leaf Green

The album is framed by "The Garden (Parts I and II)," components of an evolving song cycle spread over multiple albums, and finds Garrod entrenched in a lyrical romanticism touching on the folk spirit of Woody Guthrie and an American, specifically Californian, mythology charted by authors such as John Steinbeck.

Temporary Autonomous Zone

With lyrical pattern and subject matter similar to The Wild Party, the three song cycle of "Just the Best Party," "Go WIth It Girl" and "The Naughty Little Rat Makes New Friends" on The World/Inferno Friendship Society's 2002 album Just the Best Party details a story of love and loss from within a temporary autonomous zone.

The Great Gig in the Sky

During 1972 performances of The Dark Side of the Moon song cycle (prior to the album being recorded), it was simply an organ instrumental accompanied by spoken word samples from the Bible and snippets of speeches by Malcolm Muggeridge, a British writer known for his conservative religious views.

Thomas Dunhill

His compositions include a song cycle, The Wind among the Reeds, and an operetta, Tantivy Towers.

Virginia Opera

The company has produced notable world and American premieres of new works, including most recently American composer Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County, a Civil War song cycle co-commissioned by Virginia Opera, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Modlin Center of the University of Richmond, and the University of Texas at Austin.