Ночь печальна | Ночь печальна, как мечты мои

by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953)

Noch' pechal'na, kak mechty moi

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

Noch' pechal'na, kak mechty moi...
Daleko, v glukhoj stepi shirokoj,
Ogonek mercajet odinokij...
V serdce mnogo grusti i ljubvi.

No komu i kak razskazhesh' ty,
Chto zovjot tebja, chem serdce polno?
Put' dalek, glukhaja step' bezmolvna,
Noch' pechal'na, kak moi mechty.

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by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), no title, written 1900 [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 Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Ночь печальна", op. 14 (Шесть романсов (Shest' romansov) = Six Romances) no. 1 (1904) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof (b. 1881), "Ночь печальна, как мечты мои" [sung text not yet checked]
by Vassily Vasilyevich Nechayev (1895 - 1956), "Ночь печальна", op. 1 no. 6 (1918), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Девять юношеских песен для голоса с фортепиано (Devjat' junosheskikh pesen dlja golosa s fortepiano) = Dix pièces pour les jeunes, no. 6, Moscow [sung text checked 1 time]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ночь печальна", op. 26 (Пятнадцать романсов = Pjatnadcat' romansov (Fifteen songs)) no. 12 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]

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