by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793 - 1835)
Translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893)
O, spoj zhe tu pesnju
Language: Russian (Русский) after the English
O, spoj zhe tu pesnju, rodnaja, chto pela ty v prezhnije dni, v teni, kak rebjonkom byla ja, ty pesenku vdrug zapevala, i ja na kolenjakh tvoikh pod zvuki toj pesni dremala. Ty pela, tomima toskoju; iz temnykh, zadumchivykh glaz katilas' sleza za slezoju... Protjazhno i grustno ty pela... Ljubila napev ja prostoj, khot' slov ja ponjat' ne umela... O, spoj zhe tu pesnju, rodnaja, kak pela jejo v starinu; davno jejo smysl ponjala ja! I pust' pod znakomye zvuki ubitaja gorem zasnu ja snom, chto vrachujet vse muki.
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Text Authorship:
- by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793 - 1835), "Mother! oh, sing me to rest", appears in Peninsular Melodies, no. 1, first published 1830?
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "О, спой же ту песню" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "О, спой же ту песню", op. 16 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 4 (1872) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (1837 - 1917) ; composed by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810 - 1876) ; composed by Gustav Flügel, Ernst Paul Flügel, Robert Franz, Fanny Hensel, Eugen Hildach, Ferdinand von Hiller, Adolf Jensen, Anton Kappeller, Arno Kleffel.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Larionovich Mikhailov (1829 - 1865) , no title, first published 1855 ; composed by Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky, Pyotr Andreyevich Shchurovsky, Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov, Konstantin Nikolayevich Startsev, Sergey Aleksandrovich Zaitsev.
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2022
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Oh, chante la même chanson", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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