Complete Songs for Voice and Piano

by Rachmaninoff, Serge

• ISBN13: 9780486401959
• ISBN10: 0486401952
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Rich collection of 71 compositions, including some of the most hauntingly beautiful passages in vocal literature. Exciting treasury of glorious songs Opp. 4, 14, 21, 26, 34, and 38 have been reproduced from authoritative sources in a convenient, one-volume edition; most lyrics in Russian (Cyrillic) with English translations.

Table of Contents

"SIX SONGS, Op. 4"
1. "Oh, stay, my love, forsake me not!" [M]"
    (Dmitry Merezhkovsky)
2. "Morning ("I love thee well!") [L]"
    (Mariya Yanova)
3. "In the Silent Night ("When silent night doth hold me") [M]"
    (Afanasy Fet)
4. "Oh, never sing to me again" [H]"
    (Aleksandr Pushkin)
5. "The Harvest of Sorrow ("Thou, my field") [H]"
    (Aleksey Tolstoy)
6. "So many hours, so many fnacies" [H]"
    (Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
"SIX SONGS, Op. 8"
1. "The Water Lily ("From reeds on the river") [H]"
    (Heinrich Heine)
2. "Like blossom dew-freshen'd to gladness" [M]"
    (Heine)
3. "Brooding ("The days in turn pass all too soon") [M] "
    (Taras Shevchenko)
4. "The Soldier's Wife ("For a life of pain I have giv'n my love") [Mezzo]"
    (Shevchenko)
5. "A Dream ("My native land I once enjoyed") [H]"
    (Heine)
6. "A Prayer ("Oh Lord of grace!") [Sop]"
    (Johann von Goethe)
"TWELVE SONGS, Op. 14"
1. "I wait for thee" [Sop]"
    (Mariya Davidova)
2. "The Little Island ("A little island set in sea") [H]"
    (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
3. "How few the joys" [L]"
    (Afanasy Fet)
4. "I came to her" [M]"
    (Aleksey Koltsov)
5. "Midsummer Nights ("Oh these midsummer nights") [H]"
    (Daniel Rathaus)
6. "The world would see thee smile" [M]"
    (Aleksey Tolstoy)
7. "Belive it not!" [H]"
    (Tolstoy)
8. "O, do not grieve for me!" [M]"
    (Aleksey Apukhtin)
9. "As fair as day in blaze of noon" [M]"
    (Nikolay Minsky)
10. "Love's Flame ("Within my soul") [L]"
    (Minsky)
11. "Spring Waters ("Tho' still the fields are white with snow") [H]"
    (Fyodor Tyutchev)
12. "Tis time!" [L]"
    (Semyon Nadson)
"TWELVE SONGS, Op 21"
1. "Fate ("With pilgrim's staff, with weary gait") [M]"
    Suggested by Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Aleksey Apukhtin)
2. "By the Grave ("In gloom of night") [Contr]"
    (Semyon Nadson)
3. "Twilight ("Alone and lost in dreams") [H]"
    (Jean-Marie Guyot)
4. "The Answer ("They wonder'd a while") [H]"
    (Victor Hugo)
5. "The Lilacs ("At the red of the dawn") [Sop]"
    (Ekaterina Beketova)
6. "Loneliness ("Oh! Heart of mine") [Sop]"
    (Alfred de Musset)
7. "How fair this spot!" [Sop]"
    (G. Galina)
8. "On the Death of a Linnet ("My linnet lies within his grave") [M]"
    (Vasily Zhukovsky)
9. "Melody ("On slumber-laden wings") [H]"
    (Nadson)
10. "Before the Image ("She stood by the image") [Mezzo]"
    (Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
11. "No pophet I" [Sop]"
    (Aleksandr Kruglov)
12. "Sorrow in Springtime ("How? My heart aches!") [Sop]"
    (Galina)
"FIFTEEN SONGS, Op. 26"
1. "The Heart's Secret ("Within the heart") [Mezzo]"
    (Aleksey Tolstoy)
2. "All once I gladly owned" [Mezzo]"
    (Fyodor Tyutchev)
3. "Come, let us rest!" [L]"
    (Anton Chekhov)
4. "Two Partings (A Dialogue) ("Two lovers hadst thou") [Bar & Sop]"
    (Aleksey Koltsov)
5. "Beloved, let us fly" [Ten]"
    (Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov)
6. "The Christ is ris'n!" [Mezzo]"
    (Dmitry Merezhkovsky)
7. "To the Children ("How often at midnight") [Mezzo]"
    (Aleksey Khomyakov)
8. "Thy pity I implore!" [Ten]"
    (Merezhkovsky)
9. "Let Me Rest Here Alone ("Spring is come") [Ten]"
    (Taras Shevchenko)
10. "Before my window" [Sop]"
    (G. Galina)
11. "The Fountains ("Oh mark how high the fountains play") [Ten]"
    (Tyutchev)
12. "Night is mournful" [Ten]"
    (Ivan Bunin)
13. "When yesterday we met" [Mezzo]"
    (Yakov Polonsky)
14. "The Ring ("Here the tapers I hold") [Mezzo]"
    (Kolstov)
15. "All things depart" [Messo / original: Baritone]"
    (Daniel Rathaus)
"FOURTEEN SONGS, Op. 34"
1. "The Muse ("From childhood's early days") [H]"
    (Aleksandr Pushkin)
2. "The Soul's Concealment ("The soul at all times would conceal") [L]"
    (Apollon Korinfsky)
3. "The Storm ("I saw the maid on rocky strand") [H]"
    (Pushkin)
4. "Day to night comparing went the wind her way" [H]"
    (Constantine Balmont)
5. "Arion ("Full many souls the vessel held") [H]"
    (Pushkin)
6. "The Raising of Lazarus ("Oh Lord of Heaven!") [L]"
    (Aleksey Khomyakov)
7. "So dread a fate I'll ne'er believe!" [Mezzo]"
    (Apollon Maykov)
8. "Music ("How it flows") [Mezzo]"
    (Yakov Polonsky)
9. "The Poet ("You knew him well") [M]"
    (Fyodor Tyutchev)
10. "The Morn of Life ("The hour I mind me") [H]"
    (Tyutchev)
11. "With hold banner firmly held" [L]"
    (Afanasy Fet)
12. "What wealth of rapture" [H]"
    (Fet)
13. "Discord ("What if fate should decree") [Sop]"
    (Polonsky)
14. Vocalise [H]
SIX SONGS. Op. 38
1. "In my garden at night" [H]"
    (Avetik Isaakian)
2. "To Her ("Grasses dew-pearl'd so tearfully") [H]"
    (Andrey Bely)
3. "Daisies ("Behold, my friend, the daises sweet") [H]"
    (Igor Severyanin)
4. "The Pied Piper ("On my flute, when ev'ning darkens") [H]"
    (Valery Bryusov)
5. "Dreams ("Say, oh whither art bound") [H]"
    (Fyodor Sologub)
6. "A-Oo" (The Quest) ("Was it a dream?") [H]"
    (Constantine Balmont)
"The seventy-one songs, grouped by range"