Notes

• The 2nd work a song cycle
• The 1st work for voice (Sprechstimme), flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, violoncello, and piano
• Sung in German
• Text of the 1st work by Albert Giraud, with German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben; the 2nd a setting of 15 poems from Stefan George’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten
• Durations: 34:35; 25:44
• Compact disc
• Notes and texts with English translations inserted
• Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano ; Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, conductor (1st work) ; Gilbert Kalish, piano (2nd)
• The 1st work recorded May 1970, the 2nd Nov. 1974, in Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York