Ernst Bacon
(Chicago 26/5/1898, Orinda, California 16/3/1980) TESTI DEI LIEDER
"A clear midnight"
da "This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
(opus alto or baritone, piano)
"A Cradle Song"
da "Sleep, sleep, beauty bright"
di William Blake (1757-1827)
(opus two-part treble chorus and piano)
"A drop fell on the apple tree"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus cantata : SSAA chorus, soprano solo, piano or orchestra)
"A spider"
da "A spider sewed at night"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SA, piano)
"A wind like a bugle"
da "There came a wind like a bugle"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSAA, piano)
"As if some little Arctic flower"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SA, piano)
"At the last"
da "At the last, tenderly"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
da "Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
(opus voice, piano)
"Der du von dem Himmel bist"
di Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Die Nachtblume"
da "Nacht ist wie ein stilles Meer"
di Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
"Epitaph"
di Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
(opus soprano, piano)
"Farewell"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus mezzo-soprano, piano)
"Gentle Greeting"
da "I know not how it falls on me"
di Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
(opus voice, piano)
"Grand is the seen"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"How still the bells"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Ich liebe dich"
di Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)
"I'm nobody"
da "I'm nobody! Who are you"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)
"In the silent west"
da "On this wondrous sea"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus voice, piano)
"Infant Joy"
da "I have no name"
di William Blake (1757-1827)
"Is there such a thing as day?"
da "Will there really be a morning"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus medium voice, piano)
"It's all I have to bring"
da "It's all I have to bring today"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus high voice, piano)
"Joy, shipmate, joy!"
da "Joy, shipmate, joy"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Let down the bars"
da "Let down the bars, O Death"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Lingering Last Drops"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"My river runs to thee"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus cantata : SSAA, piano or orchestra)
"No dew upon the grass"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus low voice, piano)
"O friend"
da "Alter? When the hills do"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus medium voice, piano)
"Omaha"
di Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
"One thought ever at the fore"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Our share of night to bear"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus cantata : SSAA, piano or chamber orchestra)
"Poor little heart!"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus high voice, piano)
"Schilflied"
da "Auf dem Teich, dem Regungslosen"
di Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)
"She went as quiet as the dew"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Simple days"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus voice, piano)
"Snowfall"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"So bashful"
da "So bashful when I spied her"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus high voice, piano)
"Solitude"
da "There is a solitude of space"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus contralto, piano)
"Sonnet"
da "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
di Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)
(opus voice, piano)
"Summer's lapse"
da "As imperceptibly as grief"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)
"The banks of the yellow sea"
da "This is the land the sunset washes"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus alto or baritone, piano)
"The bat"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)
"The crickets sang"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSA, piano)
"The daisy follows soft the sun"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSAA, soprano and alto soli, piano)
"The gentlest mother"
da "Nature, the gentlest mother"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSA, soprano and alto soli, piano)
"The grass"
da "The grass so little has to do"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus medium voice, piano)
"The heart"
da "The heart asks pleasure first"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"The Lamb" (11)
da "Little Lamb, who made thee"
di William Blake (1757-1827)
"The little stone"
da "How happy is the little stone"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus medium voice, piano)
"The mountain"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSA, piano)
"The red rose"
da "O my Luve's like a red, red rose"
di Robert Burns (1759-1796)
"The school boy" (3)
di William Blake (1757-1827)
(opus two-part treble chorus and piano)
"The sobbing of the bells"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"The swamp"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus voice, piano)
"There came a day"
da "There came a day at Summer's full"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SA, piano)
"To a loving husband"
da "If ever two were one, then surely we"
di Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
(opus voice, piano)
"To make a prairie"
da "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus high voice, piano)
"Twilight"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Twilight"
da "Dreamily over the roofs"
di Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
"Velvet people"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Wandrers Nachtlied"
da "Über allen Gipfeln"
di Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
"Was ist mir denn so wehe?"
di Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
"Water"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"We never know"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus mezzo-soprano, piano)
"Weeping and sighing"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"What soft, cherubic creatures"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSAA, soprano and alto soli, piano)
"When roses cease to bloom"
da "When roses cease to bloom, sir"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSAA, soprano and alto soli, piano)
"Whispers of heavenly death"
da "Darest thou now O soul"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"Wild nights"
da "Wild nights! Wild nights"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Winter afternoons"
da "There's a certain slant of light"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SA, piano)
"With the first Arbutus"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus chorus : SSA, piano)
"World, take good notice"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
