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  • Nocturner (ver. for sang og klaver) (1961)
    (Nocturnes)

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Programme Note

My Nocturnes for soprano and piano (1961) is a suite of settings to Chinese poems in Danish translation by Carl Kjersmeyer.

The suite is made up of 5 parts of which I, III and V are songs and II and IV are an interlude and a prelude respectively.

I ‘Vårnat’ (‘Spring Night’), Vang Tjang Lang, 8th century
II ’Interlude’
III ’Høstnat’ (’Autumn Night’), Yi Hsin, 6th century
IV ‘Prelude’
V ‘Opvågnen’ (‘Awakening’), Mong Kao Yeng, 8th century

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