Winter | Where are the sweet whisper

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by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844)

Translation © by Lyle Neff

Где сладкий шёпот

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Где сладкий шёпот
[Моих лесов?]¹
Потоков ропот,
Цветы лугов?
Деревья голы;
Ковёр зимы
Покрыл холмы,
Луга и долы.
Под ледяной
Своей корой
Ручей немеет;
Все цепенеет,
Лишь ветер злой,
Бушуя, воет
И небо кроет
Седою мглой.

Зачем, тоскуя,
В окно слежу я
Метели лёт?
Любимцу счастья
Кров от ненастья
Оно даёт.
Огонь трескучий
В моей печи;
Его лучи
И пыл летучий
Мне веселят
Беспечный взгляд.
В тиши мечтаю
Перед живой
Его игрой
И забываю
Я бури вой.

О, провиденье,
Благодаренье!
Забуду я
И дуновенье
Бурь бытия.
Скорбя душою,
В тоске моей,
Склонюсь главою
На сердце к ней,
И под мятежной
Метелью бед,
Любовью нежной
Её согрет,
Забуду вскоре
Крутое горе,
Как в этот миг
Забыл природы
Гробовый лик
И непогоды
Мятежный крик.

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• C. Cui • V. Kalinnikov

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V. Kalinnikov sets stanza 1

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¹ Cui, Kalinnikov: "Густых лесов," ("Gustykh lesov,")

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by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), no title, first published 1831 [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 Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "Зима (триптих)", op. 67 (Шесть романсов Баратынского (Shest' romansov Baratynskogo) = Six Romances by Baratynsky) no. 2, published 1973 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "Где сладкий шопот", op. 3 no. 2 [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], from Весна и Осень. 2 Дуэта для сопрано и меццосопрано с сопровождением фортепиано (Vesna i Osen'. 2 Du`eta dlja soprano i meccosoprano s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 2, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Зима", op. 15 no. 2 (1877-1878), published 1878-1879, stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], from Тринадцать музыкальных картинок (Trinadcat' muzykal'nykh kartinok) = Vignettes musicales, treize mélodies = Thirteen pictures in music, no. 2, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Где сладкий шёпот" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Где сладкий шёпот" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Зима", stanza 1 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859 - 1924), "Зима", op. 43 no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Осень", op. 33 (6 Дуэтов для сопрано и контральто с сопровождением фортепиано (6 Du`etov dlja soprano i kontral'to s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1, published 1898 [ vocal duet for soprano and contralto with piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Eugène Adénis-Colombeau (1854 - 1923) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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Winter

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Where are the sweet whisper
of dense forests,
the murmur of streams,
the flowers of meadows?
The trees are naked:
the carpet of winter
has covered the hills,
meadows, and valleys.
Under its
icy crust
the hand grows numb,
everything freezes.
Only the wicked wind
howls as it roars,
and the sky covers
with a gray haze.

Note: this is a translation of Cui's setting.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), no title, first published 1831
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This text was added to the website: 2013-01-20
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