Songs from the Chinese Poets are series of song settings, 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.
Dutton CDLX7389 (2021)
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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
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1917 songs
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