Three Songs for tenor and orchestra
Full title | Three Songs for high male voice (tenor or baritone) and orchestra / Drei Lieder für hohe Männerstimme (Tenor oder Bariton) und Orchester | |
Date composed | 1915 | |
Details |
1. Erscheinung / Vision (Walter Calé); vocal range: ab–bb'' 2. Beatrix (Walter Calé); vocal range: a#–a'' 3. Das Abendlied / Evening Song (Wunderhorn); vocal range: bb–c'' Composed 1915. Texts translated into English by Vally Weigl. Orchestration: Voice/0, 2(2nd alt. E.H.), 2(2nd alt. B.Cl.), 2/4, 2, 3, 1/Perc./Hp./Str. Performance duration: ca. 16 min. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-123, holograph full score; and NYPL JOB 73-125, holograph piano reduction (31 pages). See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 20, bound copyist's [?] full score in ink (27, 34, and 29 pages), with title corrected from 3 Gesänge für eine hohe Männerstimme mit Orchester to 3 Gesänge für Tenor (Bariton) mit Orchester; as well as NYPL JPB 78-18, photocopy of holograph piano reduction, with title page bearing a Theodore Presser Company stamp; and NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 21, reproduction (Composers Facsimile Edition) of holograph piano reduction. | |
Publication details | Mercury Music Corporation, date unknown. Today publisher of record is ACA. | |
Availabiity | Performance score and parts available from TPC and ACA; orchestral and piano-vocal scores, and photocopy of holograph of composer's piano reduction, available from KWF. | |
Recordings | Arrangement for voice and piano: David Holloway and Richard Woitach (LP: Orion ORS 80389, 1980). CD also includes Weigl's Cello Sonata, Two Pieces for cello and piano, and the Viola Sonata. |
19 December 1916*** | Vienna: Hans Duhan, tenor; Vienna Tonkünstler-Orchester, cond. Oskar Nedbal (nos. 1 and 2). |
14 April 1920 | Vienna, Großer Konzerthaussaal, Konzertvereinsabend: Hermann Tausche, tenor; Konzertvereins-Orchester, cond. Ferdinand Loewe (first complete performance). |
4 October 1979 | New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, A Mahler–Weigl Program for the benefit of the Karl Weigl Memorial Fund: David Holloway, voice; Richard Woitach, piano (arrangement for voice and piano). |