Thomas Rajna - Vocal

Vocal

  • Four Early Songs for high voice and piano
    • Cradle Song (William Blake), 1948
    • Piping Down the Valleys Wild (William Blake), 1948
    • Meeting at Night (Robert Browning), 1948
    • Solfeggio, 1949
  • Four Traditional African Lyrics for high voice and piano, 1975
    • The Sorrow of Kodio
    • Idyll
    • Serenade
    • Cuckold contented
  • "Stop All the Clocks" for middle voice and piano, Four songs on poems by W. H. Auden, 1998
    • Stop All the Clocks
    • The Composer
    • Their Lonely Betters
    • Refugee Blues

Poems used by kind permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of W.H.Auden, the copyright holders.

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