New. Silent Songs
song cycle (24 songs) in four parts on poems by classical poets
baritone (soprano) and piano (BARITONE/PF)
New. Silent Songs
song cycle (24 songs) in four parts on poems by classical poets
baritone (soprano) and piano (BARITONE/PF)
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The composer weaves the polyphony of the poets' voices (Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Yesenin, Mandelstam, Keats, Shelley, and others) into an integral whole, into a mysterious harmony. The hero of the cycle is poetry itself. 'I felt the need to bow to poetry, to wait for the poem to sing itself.' (Valentin Silvestrov)
Contents
- I Five Songs on verses by Baratynsky, Keats, Pushkin and Shchevchenko: Song can tend the ailing spirit (Y. Baratynsky)
- There were storms and blizzards ( Y. Baratynsky)
- La Belle Dame sans merci (J. Keats)
- O melancholy time! (from “Autumn” by A. Pushkin)
- Farewell, O world, O earth (from “A Dream” by T. Shevchenko)
- II Eleven Songs on verses by Pushkin, Mandelstam, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Shelley and Essenin: What is my name to you? (A. Pushkin)
- I will tell you with complete directness (O. Mandelstam)
- I drink to the health of Mary (A. Pushkin)
- Winter journey (A. Pushkin)
- White, a solitary sail (M. Lermontov)
- I met you … (F. Tyutchev)
- The Isle (P. Busshe Shelley)
- Something unspoken, blue and tender (S. Yessenin)
- Autumn song (S. Yessenin)
- Swamps and marshes (S. Yessenin)
- Winter evening (A. Pushkin)
- III Three Songs on verses by Mikhail Lermontov: When the yellowing cornfield stirs
- I set out on the road alone
- Mountain summits (after J.W. von Goethe “Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh”)
- IV Five Songs on verses by Pushkin, Tyutchev, Mandelstam and Zhukovsky: Elegy. Verses composed at night during a time of insomnia (A. Pushkin)
- Choral. A vengeful God has taken everything from me (F. Tyutchev)
- Meditation. It’s time, my friend, it’s time! (O. Mandelstam)
- Ode. And Mozart in water, and Schubert in birdsongs (O. Mandelstam, there: “Schubert in water, an Mozart in birdsongs”)
- Postlude. Recollection (“Those sweet companions”) (V. Zhukovsky)
