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Russian Romances is a disc of Shostakovich’s song cycles on 2 CDS.
The works include 3 Romances on poems by Alexander Pushkin for bass and small orchestra; From Jewish folk poetry for soprano, alto, tenor and orchestra and 6 Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and small orchestra.
Dmitry Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
No. 1. Plach ob umershem mladentse (The Lament for the Dead Child)
No. 2. Zabotlivye mama i tyotya (The Thoughtful Mother and Aunt)
No. 3. Kolybal'naya (Lullaby)
No. 4. Pered dolgoy razlukoy (Before a Long Parting)
No. 5. Predosterezheniye (A Warning)
No. 6. Broshenniy otets (The Abandoned Father)
No. 7. Pesnya o nuzhde (The Song of Misery)
No. 8. Zima (Winter)
No. 9. Khoroshaya zhisn' (A Good Life)
No. 10. Pesnya devushki (The Young Girl's Song)
No. 11. Schastye (Happiness)
Dmitry Shostakovich: Suite, Op. 145, "Suite on Words by Michelangelo"
I. Istina (Truth)
II. Utro (Morning)
III. L'ubov' (Love)
IV. Razluka (Separation)
V. Gnev (Wrath)
VI. Dante - VII. Izgnanniku (To the Exiled)
VIII. Tvorchestvo (Artistry)
IX. Noch (Night)
X. Smert' (Death)
XI. Bessmertie (Eternity)
Dmitry Shostakovich: 4 Romances, Op. 46
No. 1. Renaissance
No. 2. Weeping Bitterly, a Jealous Maid Reproached a Young Man
No. 3. Anticipation
Dmitry Shostakovich: 6 Verses, Op. 143
No. 1. My Verses
No. 2. Whence All This Tenderness?
No. 3. Dialogue between Hamlet and His Conscience
No. 4. The Poet and The Czar
No. 5. No, The Drum Did Beat
No. 6. To Anna Akhmatova
Dmitry Shostakovich: 6 Romances, Op. 62
No. 1. Sir Walter Raleigh To His Sonne
No. 2. Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
No. 3. Macpherson's Farewell
No. 4. Jenny
No. 5. Sonnet No. 66 by W. Shakespeare
No. 6. The King's Campaign
Dmitry Shostakovich: 6 Romances, Op. 21
No. 1. Love
No. 2. Before the Suicide
No. 3. An Immodest Glance
No. 4. The First and the Last Time
No. 5. Hopeless Love
No. 6. Death
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