Music Text
to poems by Endre Ady (H,E,G,F)
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Boosey & Hawkes
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1. Autumn Tears
2. Autumn Echoes
3. Lost Content
4. Alone with the Sea
5. I cannot come to you
Written to words, largely of despair, by iconoclastic Hungarian poet Endre Ady, this set unveils some of Bartók’s most unrelievedly dark and melancholy writing. The songs are suited to a soprano and a pianist of virtuoso temperament.
Note by Malcolm Gillies