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Programme Notes

These songs, written quickly and completely by intuition, were among the first music I composed after two years of virtual silence. “Gong” was written in August 1988 for the 70th birthday celebrations for Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood; the others followed in September and October. Four Late Poems was commissioned by Jane Manning with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain, and it was she who gave the first complete performance at the 1989 Aldeburgh Festival.

© Oliver Knussen

Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke (Voice)

Oliver Knussen

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Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

Mime mvt.4 only

Conservatoire de Caen Musique et Danse (Caen, Basse-Normandie, France)

Conservatoire de Caen

Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

Britten Studio (Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Claire Booth/Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins/Christopher Glynn

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Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

Gong only from Four Late Poems. Also: Scriabin Settings. Radio 3 in Concert

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Claire Booth/Karen Jones/Knussen Chamber Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth

Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

Gong only from Four Late Poems Also: Scriabin Settings

Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Knussen Chamber Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth/Claire Booth/Karen Jones

Four Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke

Paul Sacher Auditorium (Basel, Switzerland)

Oliver Knussen/Ensemble Recherche/Claire Booth

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Knussen manuscripts acquired by Sacher Foundation

The acquisition of the collection was marked on 14 February with a concert by soprano Claire Booth and Ensemble Recherche

'Four Late Poems' reviews

'… Knussen’s unerring ear for the relationships among the sounds, colours and rhythms of the words, patterns that generate poetic meaning.'
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