Ned Rorem

(n. 23/10/1923)

TESTI DEI LIEDER

"A Birthday"
da "My heart is like a singing bird"
di Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"A Glimpse" (10)
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"A Learned Man" (20)
di Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

"Are you the new person?"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"As Adam, early in the morning"
da "As Adam early in the morning"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Ask me no more"
di Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love" (8)
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

"Defiled is my name"
di Anne Boleyn (1507?-1536)

"End of the Day" (33)
di Anonimo

"Evidence of Things not seen" (36)
di William Penn (1644-1718)

"Far-Far-Away"
di Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"Ferry me across the water"
di Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"Full of life now"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Gliding o'er all"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"How Do I Love Thee" (5)
da "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
di Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)

"Hymn for Evening" (27)
di Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
(edizione 1709)

"Hymn for Morning" (14)
di Thomas Ken (1637-1711)
(edizione 1709)

"I am he . ." (11)
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"I saw a mass . ." (15)
di John Woolman (1720-1772)

"I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"In a Gondola"
di Robert Browning (1812-1889)
(opus high voice, piano or orchestra)

"Is My Team Ploughing?" (23)
da "Is my team ploughing"
di Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"
di Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)

"Life in a Love" (6)
di Robert Browning (1812-1889)

"Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Love"
di Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

"Love in a Life"
di Robert Browning (1812-1889)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Love's stricken, 'Why'" (4)
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus mezzo-soprano, piano)

"Mother, I cannot mind my wheel"
di Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

"Now sleeps the crimson petal"
di Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"O do not love too long"
di William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

"O you whom I often and silently come"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Ode"
di Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)

"Of him I love day and night"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Psalm 134"

"Psalm 142"

"Psalm 148"

"Psalm 150"

"Reconciliation"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Requiem"
di Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"Requiescat" (22)
di Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Sometimes with one I love"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Song"
da "Go, lovely Rose"
di Edmund Waller (1608-1687)

"Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of Town in the Spring"
di John Dryden (1631-1700)

"Sun of the sleepless"
da "Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star"
di George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

"That shadow, my likeness"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"The Candid Man" (18)
di Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

"The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) " (16)
di William Penn (1644-1718)

"The dancer"
di Edmund Waller (1608-1687)

"The Open Road" (2)
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"The Rainbow" (4)
da "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky"
di William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The sleeping palace"
di Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

"The year's at the spring"
di Robert Browning (1812-1889)

"To a common prostitute"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"To a young girl"
di William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

"To Anthea, who may command him anything" (9)
da "Bid me to live, and I will live"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

"To Daisies, not to shut so Soon" (4)
da "Shut not so soon ; the dull-eyed night"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

"To Jane"
da "The keen stars were twinkling"
di Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
(edizione 1839)

"To Music, to becalm his Fever" (1)
da "Charm me asleep, and melt me so"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

"To My Dear and Loving Husband" (3)
da "If ever two were one, then surely we"
di Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (1612?-1672)

"To you"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"Up-hill"
di Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)

"Upon Julia's Clothes" (3)
da "Whenas in silks my Julia goes"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

"We never said farewell"
di Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)

"What if some little pain"
di Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

"What inn is this" (8)
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night"
di Walt Whitman (1819-1892)