Valentin Silvestrov - Silent Songs : Farewell, o world, o earth

A "silent song"
(to my daughter, because she loves this)

Voice: Sergey Yakovenko
Piano: Ilya Scheps
Composer: Valentin Silvestrov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Silvestrov


Прощай, свiте! Прощай, земле,
Неприязний краю!
Моï муки, моï лютi
В хмарi заховаю.
А ти, моя Украïно,
Безталанна вдово!
Я до тебе лiтатиму
З хмари на розмову.

На розмову тихосумну,
На раду з тобою;
Опівночі, падатиму
Рясною росою.
("Сон")
1844

"Goodbye, O world, O earth, farewell,
Unfriendly land, goodbye!
My searing pain, my tortures cruel
Above the clouds I'll hide.
And as for you, my dear Ukraine,
I'll leave the clouds behind
And fall with dew to talk with you,
Poor widow-country mine.
I'll come at midnight when the dew
Falls heavy on the fields;

("A Dream")

Taras Shevchenko

Category:

Music

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• silvestrov
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• lieder
• silent
• songs
• song
• cycle
• taras
• shevchenko

[Klibanarios]

Δε μου ανοίγει να δω το βίντεο :(((

[LamentOfTheRain]

@Klibanarios Δεν είχε τίποτα να δεις, μόνο ν'ακούσεις .. :))

Ευχαριστώ για την παρουσία και καλησπέρα :)

[bajdamykola]

@TheMister1x

thank you for the lyrics- so this is from Сон!

[troytroy1966]

This voice, this song, if no other, must encapsulate an old soul, weary of this earth, of men's ways, and of life. A song and voice that must have known suffering.

[carmen71280]

Extraordinaire.

[LyudmylaD]

very touching and original  !

[TheMister1x]

@johnybladex "Goodbye, O world, O earth, farewell, Unfriendly land, goodbye! My searing pain, my tortures cruel Above the clouds I'll hide. And as for you, my dear Ukraine, I'll leave the clouds behind And fall with dew to talk with you, Poor widow-country mine. I'll come at midnight when the dew Falls heavy on the fields; ("A Dream") Taras Shevchenko

[johnybladex]

I don't understand the lyrics, but I can imagine...

The music is perfect!

Just perfect!

[sunmosphere]

beauty!

[composer86]

Silvestrov put this song in his Requiem for Larissa: 4th movement

[operarus33184]

Otherworldly stuff, truly. Thank you. Give love. xoxo