Ewa Podleś - Trepak

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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2009

Polish contralto Ewa Podleś singing Trepak from Modest Mussorgsky song cycle Songs and Dances of Death (Pesni i plyaski smerti) written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, and later orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This particular song is about a drunken peasant who stumbles outside into the snow, and becomes caught in a blizzard. As he perishes, he dreams of summer fields. Recorded in 2002 for Podleś' CD Russian Arias with orchestra Philharmonia of Russia conduced by Constantine Orbelian.

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  • Трепак? Интересная темка в песне. Жаль, что не на русском. Great voice but what does "Trepak" mean?

  • Honestly, I have been asking the same question for quite some time. Haven't got a clue. I really wish someone could answer that.

  • You like Ewa Podleś dont you? ;) But who doesnt?

  • No, I don't like her... I ADORE HER! ;)

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  • Trepak is a dance.

  • @toni7777ful Trepak is a Ukrainian folk dance

  • q vieja grossaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • И правда, на русском поет....только произношение надо малость подчистить, а то не понятно как то.....

  • @toni7777ful

    поёт по Русски - прислушайтесь...

  • This is the best interpretation of this song - her voice is really lending so well to the sound of Death - full of evil mischief. She is incredible in Lullaby, too. The words by Golenischev-Kutuzov are so sarcastic, too.

  • If I had to guess it would just be the name of a type of dance. My last name is Mazur, from a tribal region of Poland, the Mazurka is a dance... there are many plays on the word, Mazurek, Mazurski, Russian is very similar, I would assume there are like traditions.

  • @toni7777ful If I remember highschool Russian right ,it means a dance;I suspect this is from early Mussorgskis experiments in writing music a la Russe.

  • @toni7777ful

    trepak is a traditional Russian dance. Tchaikovski used it in the Nutcracker also.

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