“Dobroye znamen’ ye: stihnet stradan’ ye. “Tschechki bledneyut, slabeyet dykhan’ ye… “Tishe! Rebionok moi mechetsya, b’iotsya, Ranhym raniokhon’ ko v dver’, ostorozhno, Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death)īy A. Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death) for Voice and Piano | Modest Mussorgsky (20:56) Nigun (Improvisation) from Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Hassidic Life for Violin and Piano | Ernest Bloch (7:10) Evident in Mussorgsky’s chilling Songs and Dances of Death, these qualities likewise emerge in the music of Fauré and the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch. Yet through these composers’ empathy and perseverance, Russia’s musical lamentations likewise extol the indomitability of the human spirit, ultimately uplifting the listener from even the darkest despair. From Glinka to Shostakovich and beyond, Russia’s composers have depicted melancholia with both a dignified nobility and a devastating dolor. Details Russian Reflections Disc 5 (2016)Ĭomposed in the same year as Tchaikovsky’s death and dedicated “to the memory of a great artist,” Sergei Rachmaninov’s Trio élégiaque captures an essential component of Russian musical identity.
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