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И больно, и сладко, Когда, при начале любви, То сердце забьётся украдкой, То в жилах течет лихорадка, То жар запылает в крови... И больно, и сладко!.. Пробьёт час свиданья,— Потупя [предательский]1 взор, В волненьи, в томленьи незнанья, [Боясь и желая]2 признанья,3 Начнёшь и прервёшь разговор... И в муку свиданье!.. Не вымолвишь слова... Немеешь... робеешь... дрожишь... Душа, проклиная оковы, Вся в речи излиться б готова... [Но только глядишь и молчишь — Нет силы, нет слова!..]4 Настанет разлука,— И, холодно, гордо простясь, Уйдёшь с своей тайной и мукой!.. А в сердце истома и скука, И вечностью [нам каждый]5 час, И смерть нам разлука!.. И сладко, и больно... И трепет безумный затих; И сердцу легко и раздольно... Слова полились бы так вольно, Но слушать уж некому их,— И сладко, и больно!...
P. Tchaikovsky sets stanzas 1-3, 5
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Dyubyuk, Tchaikovsky: "предательный"
2 Dyubyuk, Tchaikovsky: "боишься, желаешь"
3 Tchaikovsky adds "И в муку свиданье!.."
4 Tchaikovsky: "Нет силы, нет слова,/ и только глядишь и молчишь!"
5 Dyubyuk: "каждый нам"
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina (1812 - 1858), "Слова для музыки" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "И больно, и сладко" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "И больно, и сладко" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "И больно, и сладко", op. 6 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3, stanzas 1-3,5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 133
Both painful, and sweet, when you first fall in love your heart is clogged by fear, fever flows in your veins, your blood flames with heat… painful and sweet! The hour of goodbye strikes, – your eyes dim and fill with betrayal, in the excitement, in the languor of innocence, you’re afraid, unwilling to recognize it, – You start to speak and then fall silent… the pain of goodbye! Don’t say a word… You fall mute, become shy, tremble; a soul, cursing its shackles, wanting to pour out your prepared speech… You have neither power, nor words, and you just stare and try to respond! [... ... ... ... ... ...] Both sweet, and painful… The thrill of love’s madness subsides; and heart calms and becomes free… Words have flowed so easily, but there’s no one left to listen to them. sweet and painful.
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Notes: This song is inspired by Cherubino’s “Non so più” from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, a favorite work of Tchaikovsky’s. Soprano Alexandra Kochetova premiered it at a March 1870 concert of the Russian Musical Society. The text is by Countess Yevdokiya Rostopchina (1811-1858), a Moscow aristocrat.Text Authorship:
- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina (1812 - 1858), "Слова для музыки"
This text was added to the website: 2016-10-23
Line count: 30
Word count: 138