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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


      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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