KSS21 Trois poèmes pour chant et piano

Piece details

  • Written for: Voice and Piano
  • Date composed: 1918–19
  • Dedicatee: Marthe Martine
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 7
  • Manuscript pages: 9
  • Manuscript location: Private collection
  • Comments: Published (London and Continental Music Publishing 1921). The three songs are:
    • Correspondances (Baudelaire)
    • Crépuscule du soir mystique (Verlaine)
    • Pantomime (Verlaine)
    The manuscript survives for the third song Pantomime only.

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Copy of publication, A4P. 9 pages.
    Price: £7

  • Manuscript, A3L. 4 pages.
    Price: £7

Recordings

  • Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano),
    Centaur Records CRC2613 (2002)
    Track 1-3 (6:49)
    Track 1 Correspondances (2:41)
    Track 2 Crépuscule du soir mystique (2:42)
    Track 3 Pantomime (1:26)

Performances

  • 02/06/1921 Marthe Martine (soprano), Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (piano)
    Société des Agriculteurs de France, Paris, France
    Société Musicale Indépendante
  • 25/02/1989 Jean-Bernard Marie (piano), Jo Ann Pickens (soprano)
    Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  • 01/03/1991 Hieke Meppelink (soprano), Robert Nasveld (piano)
    De IJsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Lunchtime concert
  • 30/03/1991 Elvira Froese (piano), Janice Lewis (soprano)
    John Aird Recital Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
    Student Recital
  • 09/03/1995 Judith Burns (soprano), Brian Inglis (piano) [iii]
    Performance Area, Department of Music, City University, London, UK
  • 03/11/2000 Stephen Gutman (piano), Sarah Leonard (soprano)
    Conway Hall, London, UK
    Planet Tree Festival
  • 24/10/2001 Jacqueline Pischorn (soprano), Alex Szram (piano)
    Southwark Cathedral, London, UK
    Lunchtime concert
  • 14/11/2002 Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano)
    Merkin Hall, New York NY, USA
  • 13/02/2004 Jonathan Powell (piano), Sarah Leonard (soprano)
    St Cyprian’s Church, London, UK
  • 09/04/2008 Natasha Jouhl (soprano), Philip Smith (piano)
    Chiesa di Santa Cristina della Fondazza, Bologna, Italy

Broadcasts etc.

  • 03/06/1979 Yonty Solomon (piano), Jane Manning (soprano)
    BBC Radio 3, London, UK [B]
  • 06/02/1984 Yonty Solomon (piano), Jane Manning (soprano)
    BBC Radio 3, London, UK [R]
  • 28/07/1984 Yonty Solomon (piano), Jane Manning (soprano) [ii]
    BBC Radio 3, London, UK [R]
  • 26/07/1988 Yonty Solomon (piano), Jane Manning (soprano) [i,iii]
    Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK [+]
    Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture
  • 27/02/1991 Yonty Solomon (piano), Jane Manning (soprano) [i]
    Lecture Room A, Music Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [+]
    Oxford University Contemporary Music Group, Illustrated Lecture (Alistair Hinton)
  • 09/08/1992 Thomas Palm (piano), Ingrid Schmidhüsen (soprano)
    Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [+B]
    Hauptabteilung E-Musik, Redaktion Neue Musik
  • 28/08/2003 Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano)
    WPRB, Princeton NJ, USA [+B]
    “Classical Discoveries” programme