Rodion Shchedrin Not Only Love (Не только любовь) Giada Amparan

Rodion Shchedrin's Opera "Not only love"
Scene of Warwara
Giada Amparan

Due to a recording glitch, the recording begins at the ** near the middle of the text. The following is a close translation of the entire scene:

Over curly forests, over hunched mountains, over flat valleys, everywhere I went. All flowers, all flowers, all flowers I have seen, that I was searching through ... One, the one, the only one, one flower not there ... No flower, no flower, no flower turquoise, joyful eyes with the blue flame ... All roads dusty, streets bumpy, all yards and collective farms, everywhere i went. All the men, all the men I met, and looked at ... One, the one, the only one, only one comrade not there ... No friend is mine, my sweetheart ... No, nowhere, no I haven't seen, no haven't found him ...

**Only words affectionate in my ears.
Only blue eyes in my eyes ...

Basta! Enough about this!
Let's do something more joyful ech!

Ai! chuk chuk chuk, the old man caught the fish.
Granny bakes it, the skillet is melting!

I was on the street, I saw Mishutku, he goes on about love, and I took it as a joke och!

Oj! Chuk chuk chuk, the old man caught the fish.
Granny bakes it, the skillet is melting!

I was on the street, I saw Serioshku.
He went this way and that way, trying bloody everything, but I hid behind the silver birch Och!

Dance! be joyful, while one's legs aren't yet in seizure.
In the blink of an eye, you will become old ... then you'll get it! Ah!

My legs from the road now came
Dancing .. they went .. my silver promise ring ..
My heart is dry Och!

When the guy cheats .. it doesn't count as cheating
It counts as cheating when the girl cheats ...
Oh mother, what should I do with love?
Either scatter it in the field or bury it in the ground ...
in the field to scatter .. ah!



Rodion Shchedrin's website: http://www.shchedrin.de/

You may find more about this composer at his publisher's website:
http://www.sikorski.de/340/en/shchedrin_rodion.html

His publisher Sikorski posted the following:

Rodion Shchedrin began his musical career as a singer in the choir school of his native city. He studied composition at the Conservatory there with Yuri Shaporin and piano with Yakov Flier. For over a decade he was Chairman of the Russian Composers' Union as the successor to Dmitri Shostakovich. Today he lives alternately in Munich and Moscow. His more recent works are published by Schott Music Publishers.
Shchedrin's extensive production reflects his constant search for new possibilities of artistic expression. Elements of folklore and traditional stylistic means are combined with modern compositional methods such as collage and aleatoric techniques in his compositions, which are often related to those of the great Russian classics like Dmitri Kabalevsky and Dmitri Shostakovich. From Sergei Prokofiev, who also strongly influenced Shchedrin's way of composing, the latter has inherited the tendency towards marked rhythms and constructive, accessible linguistic gestures. The play with timbres, constantly changing lyrical and dramatic sections, as well as broadly spacious melodic lines, result in energetic power and multifaceted richness.

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• Rodion
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• Nicht
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• Liebe
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• только
• любовь
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