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Songs from the Chinese Poets are series of song settings, thirty-two in all, by Granville Bantock. The English song texts were mainly supplied by Captain L. A. Cranmer Byng , who had also supplied the text for Choral Suite from the Chinese. Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng was part of the Byng baronets family and wrote various books on China.
In 1933 the first set were also arranged in the form of a four movement string quartet under the title In a Chinese Mirror. It was recorded for the first time by the Tippett Quartet in 2021.
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