general information

composition date
1965-1998
duration
28 min
Libretto (details, author)

Poèmes d’Emily Dickinson

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Mezzo-soprano and piano)

detailed formation

Soloist
solo mezzo-soprano

piano

information about the creation

date
1998
création du cycle complet : Allemagne, Munich

Part titles

I. (I’m) Nobody (1965/72) 1’20”
II. I’ve Seen a Dying Eye (1966/72) 1’40”
III. I Held a Jewel (In my Fingers) (1966/72) 2’20”
IV. Wild Nights (1971/72) 2’40”
V. Armistice (1972) 2’50”
VI. Mine by the Right (1980) 1’20”
VII. A Word is Dead (1979) 1’10”
VIII. Bind Me, I Still Can Sing (1980) 1’10”
IX. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (1980) 1’30”
X. Vitality, Begun (1993) 1’40”
XI. After Great Pain (1984/98) 3’20”
XII. Bride of the Holy Ghost (1993) 1’30”
XIII. In Falling Timbers Buried (1984) 2’40”
XIV. Now I Lay Thee Down / On the Death of a Child (1980) 1’
XV. Will There Really be a “Morning”? (1982/84) 2’20”


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