Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Why? (Tchaikovsky)

P.I. Tchaikovsky's Romances
Ivari Ilja - Piano

Text: Lev Aleksandrovich Mei (18221862), from his poem of the same name (1858) — a translation from the German of Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß? (1822) by Heinrich Heine (17971856).

Отчего побледнела весной
пышноцветная роза сама?
Отчего под зелёной травой
голубая фиалка нема?

Отчего так печально звучит
песня птички, несясь в небеса?
Отчего над лугами висит
погребальным покровом роса?

Отчего в небе солнце с утра
холодно и темно, как зимой?
Отчего и земля вся сыра
и угрюмей могилы самой?

Отчего я и сам все грустней
и болезненней день ото дня?
Отчего, о, скажи мне скорей ты,
покинув, забыла меня?

Why did the glorious rose wilt so,
in the spring?
Why is the blue violet
silent beneath the green grass?
Why is the song of the little bird
so sad today?
Why does the dew hang
like a shroud upon the meadows?
Why is the sun cold and dull in the sky,
as if it were winter?
Why is the eart wet
and gloomy like a tomb?
And why am I ever more sad
each day?
Why - tell me quickly -
did you forget me?

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Music

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• Dmitri
• Hvorostovsky
• Дмитрий
• Хворостовский
• Ивари
• Илья
• Чайковский
• Отчего

[SirChristopher365]

OK, I searched for it- I see this is Op. 6..... but I wonder, is there somewhere one can find lyrics for the whole cycle?

[frufruJ]

@SirChristopher365 Try "The Lied, Art Song, And Choral Texts Page" for lyrics and "imslp" for the sheet music. For info on Tchaikovsky, try tchaikovsky-research[dot]net - in the section "works" there is a list of works by genre.

[Solecit00]

This man just has it all

[SirChristopher365]

wonderful.... I like it a lot.

[SirChristopher365]

is this from a group of art songs? if so, what's the full name of the composition?

[OperaSamia]

This is fantastic! Can listen to him sing Russian for weeks straight!!

[tychaton08]

Merci!