« Nocturnal » pour soprano, chœur et orchestre (1961)
S. Leonard, soprano Prague Phil. Chorus, R. Chailly ______________
— Wa ya you you wa wa yao ya ha ha ha you You belong to the night, you belong to the night… — I rise. I always rise after the crucifixion — Dark! oh ... hm — o a o a oo a oo oo hm. Bread and the wafer — Womb and seed and egg wailing of the unborn — Perfume and sperm I have lost my brother ah — oomp'ts'oomp'ts… It grows again faces in the windows one window without light oomp'ts'oomp'ts'oomp'ts — Dark Dark Dark asleep asleep — Hm ha ha you hoo hoorn — Floating floating again aoaoao oooo — Ha ha hm — ppf — wha ho ya whoo whoo sh ga ra ya ga ra ya ga ra ha hoo ba you ba a ba ee ba ba you boo pss — Crucifixion — Crucifixion. Shadow of death — I kissed his shadow