Music | They waft and grow, these wondrous sounds!

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by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Музыка

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

И плывут, и растут, эти чудные звуки!
  Захватила меня их волна...
Поднялась, подняла и неведомой муки
  И блаженства полна...
И божественный лик, на мгновенье
  Неуловимой сверкнув красотой,
  Всплыл, как живое виденье
Над этой воздушной, кристальной волной,
  И отразился, и покачнулся,
  Не то улыбнулся... Не то прослезился...

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Text Authorship:

by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), "Музыка", written 1870-1876, appears in Озими, Ч. I, Новый сборник стихов Я. П. Полонского (Ozimi, Ch. I, Novyj sbornik stikhov Ja. P. Polonskogo) = Winter Wheat, Part 1, New Collection of Poems by Ya. P. Polonsky, first published 1876 [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 Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Музыка", op. 34 (Четырнадцать романсов = Chetyrnadcat' romansov (Fourteen songs)) no. 8 (1912) [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Music", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Music

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

They waft and grow, these wondrous sounds!
Their wave has captured me…
Risen and lifted me, full of both unknowable pain
And rapture…
And a Divine face, for a moment
Gleaming with elusive beauty,
Emerged, like a living vision
Above this voluminous crystal wave,
Mirrored, swayed,
And either smiled, or shed a tear…

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), "Музыка", written 1870-1876, appears in Озими, Ч. I, Новый сборник стихов Я. П. Полонского (Ozimi, Ch. I, Novyj sbornik stikhov Ja. P. Polonskogo) = Winter Wheat, Part 1, New Collection of Poems by Ya. P. Polonsky, first published 1876
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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-12
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