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Songs for Bass

chronologically by year of composition

Authors' Alphabetical Index

Schul-Schmaecklein - (2016)      Eduard Mörike

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Lache nicht - (2015)   Wilhelm Busch

for bass baritone and piano

 

Kleiner Rat - (2013)     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Fünf Mark - (2013)     Klabund

for bass or baritone and piano

 

The News - (2013)     Paul Laurence Dunbar

for bass or baritone and piano

 

Bis auf weiters - (2013)     Wilhelm Busch

for bass or baritone and piano

 

Dir singe ich, Gitarre - (2013) after a text by Pierre de Ronsard, by Bertram Kottmann

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Goodbye - (2012)     Joachim Ringelnatz

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Vengeance Is Sweet - (2012)     Paul Laurence Dunbar

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Die Arche Noäh - (2012)     text of Wilhelm Müller

for bass or baritone and piano

 

Das Lied des Trinkers - (2012)     Rainer Maria Rilke

for bass or baritone and piano

 

Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich - (2012)     Wilhelm Busch

for bass or baritone and piano

 

Kleine Geschichte - (2011)     Christian Morgenstern

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Wankelmut - (2011)     Wilhelm Busch

for bass or baritone and piano    

 

Onkel Kaspers rote Nase - (2011)     Wilhelm Busch

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Eddi of Manhood End - (2011)     Rudyard Kipling

for bass and piano

 

The Carrion Crow - (2010)     Anonymous

for baritone or bass and piano

 

Let Me Live Out My Years - (2009)      John G. Neihardt

for baritone or bass baritone and piano

 

Hugo der Finstere - (2009)    Ludwig Kalisch

for baritone (or bass) and piano

 

The Negro Speaks of Rivers - (2008)    Langston Hughes

for low or medium voice and piano

 

Stufen -  (2006) Hermann Hesse

for bass or bass baritone and piano

 

Demain, dès l'aube - (2006) Victor Hugo

for bass baritone and piano

 

Heidenröslein - (2006) Johann Wolfgang Goethe

for bass and piano

 

i sing of Olaf glad and big - (2005) E. E. Cummings

for bass or bass-baritone and piano

 

All Lovely Things - (2005) Conrad Aiken
for bass and piano 

 

Three Psalms - (2005) from The Scottish Psalter of 1635
for bass and organ
    i.     A Tree by the River Side - from Psalm 1 after Thomas Sternhold
    ii.    Like as the Hart - from Psalm 42 after John Hopkins
    iii.   Give Laud Unto the Lord - from Psalm 148 after John Pullain

 

Ballade aus dem 15. Jahrhundert - (2002) Anon. - "Dämmerlinge"
for bass and piano

 

Das tierische Lied von der Erde - (2001) Christian Morgenstern, Hermann Ling, Joseph Viktor Scheffel, Edwin Bormann, Matthias Claudius,and an anonymous text from "Allgemeine Deutsche Commersbuch"
for bass and piano
    i.     Das ästhetische Wiesel
    ii.    Das Krokodil
    iii.   Ein Hering liebt' eine Auster
    iv.   Der alte Marabu
    v.    Gänse
    vii. Wassermaus und Kröte

 

Caliban's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for bass-baritone and piano