The Song of Love and Death op. 131

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A Symphony for soprano, tenor and orchestra

Words by Kahlil Gibran

I Prelude · The Life of Love (Spring “Come, my beloved” · Summer “Arise, my love, to the field” · Autumn “Let us go to the vineyard” · Winter “Draw nigh into me”)
II A Tear and a Smile “I would not exchange the sorrows”
III Song of the Flower “I am a word”
IV Soliloquy “Where are you, my love”
V The Poet “A link between this world and the hereafter”
VI The Spirit “And the God of gods separated a spirit from himself”
VII The Beloved (The first glance “‘Tis the minute separating” · The first kiss “‘Tis the first sip of a cup” · Union “Here, then, does love begin”)
VIII A Song “In the dephts of my spirit”
IX Song of the Rain “I am the silver threads”
X The Hymn of Man “I was and I am”
XI Song of Beauty “I am the guide of love”
XII Song of the Wave “I and the shore are lovers”
XIII Letters of Fire “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”
XIV The Beauty of Death “Let me sleep, let me slumber”