Three songs for Sylvia Plath. A great event (6:20) ; Lullaby (3:35) ; A thing so clear (3:55) -- Some dirty tricks. She sings and comforts them (2:35) ; Sonnet 5 for piano (1:20) ; She sings and disciplines them (2:05) ; Sonnet 6 for piano (1:20) ; She sings and seduces them (3:00) -- The thief of songs III. The dream (2:05) ; The thief of songs (2:10) ; Song to ease birth (3:05)
Notes
The 2nd work consists of arrangements of excerpts from the opera Dirty tricks
The 1st work a setting of poems by Sylvia Plath; words to the 2nd work by Stephen Chance; the text of the 3rd work freely translated from the Nahuatl language