We were together (Blok, set by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)

Translation © by Anne Evans

Мы были вместе

Language: Russian (Русский)

Available translation(s): ENG ENG FRE

Мы были вместе, помню я...
Ночь волновалась, скрипка пела,
Ты в эти дни была моя,
Ты с каждым часом хорошела.

Сквозь тихое журчанье струй,
Сквозь тайну женственной улыбки
К устам просился поцелуй,
Просились в сердце звуки скрипки...

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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Мы были вместе", op. 127 no. 3 [soprano and violin], from Семь Стихотворений А. Блока: вокально-инструментальная сюита = Sem' stikhotvorenij A. Bloka, no. 3. [
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We were together

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

We were together, I recall...
Violins sang in vibrant darkness
day after day you were my own,
with every hour you grew more fair.

The secrets of a woman's smile,
the quiet whispering of breezes
set tender kisses on my lips,
and filled my heart with violin songs.

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