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- Source: Songs from the Chinese Poets
Songs from the Chinese Poets are series of settings in six parts 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.
In 1933 the first set were also arranged in the form of a four movement string quartet under the title In a Chinese Mirror. It was recorded for the first time by the Tippett Quartet in 2021.
Bantock also set other English translationd of Chinese poetry from Edward Powys Mathers (Five Chinese Songs) and Herbert Giles (Ten Songs from the Chinese, 1943).
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series I (1918)
The old fisherman of the mists and waters
The ghost road
Under the moon
The celestial weaver
Return of spring
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series II (1919)
The tomb of Chao-Chün
A dream of spring
Desolation
The Island of Pines
The pavilion of abounding joy
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series III
From the tomb of an unknown woman
Adrift
The golden nenuphar
Yung-Yang
A feast of lanterns
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series IV
Autumn across the Frontier
The Kingfisher's Tower
On the banks of Jo-Eh
Despair
The last revel
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series V
The court of dreams
Down the Hwai
Night on the mountain
The lost one
Memories with the dusk return
And there are tears
Songs from the Chinese Poets, Series VI
The King of Tang
Wild geese
Exile
Willow flowers
Dreaming at Golden Hill
Galloping home
Recordings
John McCormack (tenor) recorded "Desolation" in Australia in 1927.
References
External links
From www.lieder.net:
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set I
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set II
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set III
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set IV
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set V
Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set VI
5 Songs from the Chinese Poets, 1st Series, 5 Songs from the Chinese Poets, 2nd Series: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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