Где сладкий шёпот

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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Authorship

• by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), no title, first published 1831 [ author's text checked 1 time]

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

• 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 [
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• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Зима", op. 15 (Тринадцать музыкальных картинок (Thirteen pictures in music)) no. 2, stanza 1. [voice and piano] [
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• by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Где сладкий шёпот" [
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• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Где сладкий шёпот" [
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• by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Где сладкий шёпот" [
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• by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859 - 1924), "Где сладкий шёпот" [
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• 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 [
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• ENG English (Lyle Neff) , title 1: "Winter", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Winter

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.

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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
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin, César Antonovich Cui, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov, Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2013-01-20 00:00:00.

Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:05:07

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