Shostakovich : 6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (VI.)

Dmitri Shostakovich : 6 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, op. 143a
VI. To Anna Akhmatova
Ortrun Wenkel, contralto,
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, direction.

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[tobiasR2001]

The music and the singing was wonderful. Alas, not knowing Russian and which poems from Tsvetaeva's work Shostakovich used, my enjoyment of the piece was compromised somewhat. If anybody knows the poems and knows a good translation of them, I'd be grateful.

[MrRaph87]

I.

O muse of weeping, most beautiful of muses !

O you, wild fiend of the white night !

You send a black blizzard over Russia,

and your howling pierces us like arrows.

And we shy away, and a hollow 'Oh !"

a hundred thousand-fold -- swears to you. Anna

Akhmatova ! This name is a great sigh,

and it falls into the depth which has no name.

[MrRaph87]

II.

We are crowned by this -- that we tread

the same earth as you, that the sky above us is the same !

And he who has been wounded by your mortal fate

departs already immortal to his deathbed.

The domes burn in my singing city,

and the blind wanderer praises the Holy Saviour ...

And I make a gift to you of my city of bells,

Akhmatova ! And of my heart as well.

[marvincette]

Che grande uomo è stato SCOSTA che, ispirato da una donna abissale e somma poetessa, ha creato questi canti di assoluta, nobile bellezza. Da quest'opera dovrebbe ripartire l'uomo se vuole ritrovare la dignità e risparmiare l'estinzione! Non so come essere grato a MrRaph87.