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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Как небеса, твой взор блистает
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG
Как небеса, твой взор блистает
Эмалью голубой,
Как поцелуй, звучит и тает
Твой голос молодой;

За звук один волшебной речи,
За твой единый взгляд,
Я рад отдать красавца сечи,
Грузинский мой булат;

И он порою сладко блещет,
И сладостней звучит,
При звуке том душа трепещет,
И в сердце кровь кипит.

Но жизнью бранной и мятежной
Не тешусь я с тех пор,
Как услыхал твой голос нежный
И встретил милый взор.

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•   N. Rimsky-Korsakov •   G. Sviridov 

N. Rimsky-Korsakov sets stanzas 1-2

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  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", op. 18 (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano) = Quatre mélodies) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", op. 13 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3 (1878), published 1879 [ voice and piano ], St Petersburg, Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Karl Yulyevich Davidov (1838 - 1889), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", published [1890] [ voice and piano ], Moscow: Gutheil [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eduard Stefanovich Kabella (b. 1855), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov (1907 - 1852), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mikhail Nikolayevich Kurbatov (1863 - 1934), "Восточная песня" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Miklashevsky (d. 1935), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Arkady Aleksandrovich Nesterov (1918 - 1999), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko (1883 - 1972), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Vladimirovich Protopopov (1883 - 1954), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Как небеса, твой взор блистает", op. 7 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 4 (1867), stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ilya Aleksandrovich Sats (1875 - 1912), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (1820 - 1871), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolay Ivanovich Sizov (1866 - 1962), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Как небеса, твой взор блистает" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (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.
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