Benützer: sedetteda |
Bache & Gokstad - Henning Olav 2008 Tags: sketch |
Benützer: sedetteda |
Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death (excerpts) Songs and Dances of Death (1877), song cycle Cradle song (1875) by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov Dmitri Shostakovich orchestrated the cycle in 1962 • Kolybel'naja (Russian) Stonet rebjonok... Svecha, nagoraja, Tusklo mercajet krugom. Celuju noch' kolybel'ku kachaja, Mat' ne zabylasja snom. Ranym-ranjokhon'ko v dver' ostorozhno Smert' serdobol'naja stuk! Vzdrognula mat', ogljanulas' trevozhno... ,,Polno pugat'sja, moj drug! ... • Cradle song (English translation) Faint sounds of moaning! The lamp now expiring casts but a dim flick'ring light. Rocking the cradle, the mother untiring Waits, watches, all through the night. Long before dawn someone comes knocking, Death the deliverer is here! Hark! Trembling, the mother desists from her rocking... "Friend, calm your fear and despair! ... Tags: classical Mussorgsky |