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На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина, в остывшем воздухе от меркнущих селений, дрожа, несется звон... Душа моя полна разлукою с тобой и горьких сожалений. И каждый мой упрек я вспоминаю вновь, и каждое твержу приветливое слово, что мог бы я сказать тебе, моя любовь, [но что внутри себя]1 я схоронил сурово.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Tchaikovsky: "но что на дне души" ("no chto na dne dushi")
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- by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, first published 1862 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 13 (7 Романсов с сопровождением фортепиано (7 Romansov s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 10 no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "На нивы жёлтыя нисходит тишина", op. 30 no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 3, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 1 (6 романсов для меццосопрано с сопровождением фортепиано (6 romansov dlja meccosoprano s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 3 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883 - 1957), "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина", op. 39 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1897), also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 57 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 2, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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- ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Auf Felder gelben Korns senkt Ruh und Kühle sich; aus dämmerigen Dörfern schwebt das abendlich' Geläut zu mir herüber … erfüllt von Trennungsschmerz, von bitterem Bedauern sind Seele mir und Herz. Und jegliches, was ich dir vorhielt, aber auch das liebe, sanfte Wort gerät erneut mir in den Sinn - nun sprech ich’s aus, doch damals, meine Liebe, hielt ich es streng verborgen in mir drin.
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, first published 1862
This text was added to the website: 2020-08-14
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Word count: 66