Three Songs from Le Tombeau de Gabriel Fauré (for voice and piano)

Three Songs from Le Tombeau de Gabriel Fauré (1951)composed by Walter Arlen, on Sonnets to Orpheus byRainer Maria Rilke (translation by Jessie Lemont)For voice and piano These three songs with texts by Rainer Maria Rilke were composed by Walter Arlen in 1951 as an homage to Gabriel Fauré. Arlen grew up in Vienna in the 1930s, where mainly German-language songs and operettas were performed, as well as music from the Second Viennese School. International composers received little attention. It was only in exile that Arlen was inspired by the sounds of Debussy, Stravinsky, Sibelius and others. Out of gratitude to the country to which he immigrated, he used an English translation of the original German poems. SongsI. Where, in What Blessedly Watered GardensII. See the Flowers, True to Earth that Sent Them HitherIII. Sing the Gardens, My HeartIn songs I and III, music by Fauré is freely quoted. About the Exilarte EditionG. Schirmer/Wise Music’s Exilarte Edition exclusively publishes works b