The Rilke Download Page using the free InChorus Media Player, recorded in German and English by Cliff Crego

(click on title to download recording)

German	English
(1) Klage	(1) Lament
(2) Eingang	(2) Entrance
(3) Herbsttag	(3) Autumn Day
(4) Abend	(4) Evening
(5) Pont du Carrousel	(5) Pont du Carrousel
(6) Der Nachbar	(6) The Neighbor
(7) Vorgefühl	(7) Premonition
(8) Fortschritt	(8) Progress
(9) Einsamkeit	(9) Loneliness
(10) Todeserfahrung	(10) Death Experience
(11) S an O: I#21	(11) S to O: I#21
(12) S an O: II#13	(12) S to O: II#13
(13) S an O: II#29	(13) S to O: II#29
	(14) S to O: II#29      German/English
	(15) The Panther

* 100 K = 60 seconds or one minute of spoken sound

(1a) Click on the title you wish to listen to;

(1b) Depending on the type of computer you use
and the browser you prefer, ie. Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL,
etc., a Download Manager will appear;

(1c) Create a new folder on your hard drive and call it something
like "RIlke Poems";

(1d) Click Save;

(1e) Then you'll see the little Transfer File box. Each file
has been made as small as possible—about 100 kilobytes—
to make downloading them relatively quick and easy;



(2a) Click on the inChorus link above to download a free
copy of their Player. Because it's a small application, the
Player both downloads quickly and is very easy to use.

(2b) Install the inChorus Player. On a Windows PC, you might
put it with applications on your C:\drive. On a Macintosh, place in
your Hard Disk folder and add to your Apple Menu for easy
on-line access.



(3a) Open the Player. Drop down the File menu, and select
Open Message. Select the new folder, "Rilke Poems," you just
created and then the particular file which has been downloaded, for
example, < download_lament.smg > After clicking on the file,
a handy little panel appears with a stopwatch and sliding bars for
both time and volume. For each poem you open, a separate player
appears. This is a nice feature, letting you click back and forth between
as many pieces as you like, or, for example, the original German and
the English translation, making for easy comparison.



(4a) Steps 1 through 3 you can do while still on-line. You can even
continue looking around the texts of the Rilke or Picture/Poem
websites (or elsewhere) with the Player still on.

(4b) In contrast to the popular RealAudio system, there is no real-time
streaming that takes place, which means that, the next time
you want to listen to a particular poem, you don't have
to log back on-line and repeat the whole procedure. With inChorus,
which is really intended as an e-mail messaging application, you have
a permanent copy of the recording once it's downloaded, so
you can listen to them in any order at your leisure, make new copies,
and, of course, even send them to friends as e-mail attachments.