Mikhail Lermontov

From high atop the beautiful Dagestan region, in the heart of the Caucasus, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Sir Walter Scott. The role of the Bobbsie Twins is being played by Lucia and Drusilla Lammermoor. The role of Ken Moss is being played by Rex T. Ivanhoe. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by William Shatner. Our featured great Russian writer today is Mikhail Lermontov. Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov October 15 1814 – July 27  1841), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.

Sergei Prokofiev – Waltz Suite, Op. 110: III. Mephisto Waltz, from Lermontov - Live Sergei Prokofiev – Prokofiev: Waltz Suite, Op. 110
Gretchaninov, Alexander – Gretchaninov: Lullaby - Lullaby Various Artists – Glière/Glazunov etc: Harp Concerto/Concerto for Coloratura Soprano etc
Rachmaninov, Sergey Vasil'yevich – Rachmaninov: By The Gates Of The Holy Dwelling (U vrat obiteli svyatoy) - By The Gates Of The Holy Dwelling (U vrat obiteli svyatoy) Elisabeth Söderström & Vladimir Ashkenazy – Rachmaninov: The Songs
Steven Isserlis – Akhmatova Songs (for soprano and cello): Pushkin and Lermontov Various Artists – Tavener - Svyati
Larissa Gatova – Mikhail Lermontov - Alone I Go Out to the Highway – Russian Poetry: Read in Russian by Larissa Gatova
Lincoln Mayorga – Three Pieces Opus 96, Contradance (from "Lermontov") – Piano Music Of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev
Larissa Gatova – Mikhail Lermontov - Angel  – Russian Poetry: Read in Russian by Larissa Gatova
Anton Rubinstein – A.Rubinstein." Mountain Peaks". Lyrics by Michail Lermontov
Larissa Gatova – Mikhail Lermontov - The Sail – Russian Poetry: Read in Russian by Larissa Gatova
Sergei Rachmaninov – S.Rachmaninov. "The Pine". Lyrics by Michail Lermontov Victor Popov – Russian Choir School. Victor Popov
Style of Five – Net, Ne Tebia Tak Pilko Ya Liubliu (No, It's Not You I Love So Fervently) - Arr. For Baritone And Orchestra Lev Mey – I Met You, My Love
Natalia Biryukova – 2 Romances, Op. 84: No. 1. Utro an Kavkaze (A Morning In The Caucasus)
Natalia Biryukova – 2 Romances, Op. 84: No. 2. Ballada  – SHOSTAKOVICH: Complete Songs, Vol. 1 - Vocal Cycles Of The Fifties (1950-1956)
Ivari Ilja, piano  – 6 Romances, Op. 38 (text by M. Lermontov): 6 Romances, Op. 38: No. 5. Lyubov' mertvetsa (The love of a dead man) Alexei Tolstoy – Hvorostovsky, Dmitri: Tchaikovsky Romances

The Hero of Our Time:
Schwartz, Abe, musician.  The klezmer king Columbia/Legacy, 2002. Hurra! Far unzer held Levine = Hurray! For our hero Levine (Irving Grossman)

The Princess of the Tide, 1841, ballad:
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich,  1840-1893. The sleeping beauty Princess Aurora. Capitol.   Ballet Theatre Orchestra; Joseph Levine, conductor.
Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Pavane for a dead princess Columbia The Cleveland Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Cleveland Orchestra Chorus; Margaret Hills, director.
 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908.   Shekherazada   from "Thousand and one nights"  Pilz, 1988.  The young prince and princess  Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana; Anton Nanut, conductor.
 The Poet:
Mariàn Pivka – Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 - Hark! The Poet Speaks
Kleine stücke grosser meister, vol. 2  Short pieces, great composers, vol. 2.  PMG  [1988]. Aus "Kinderszenen" = From "Scenes of childhood," op. 15:  Hark! The poet speaks / R. Schumann
Halle Orchestra –Overtures : Poet and Peasant – Franz Von Suppe': Overtures
Emmerich Kálmán Capitol Records-- The Czardas princess / Kálmán  Madlon Harder, soprano; Jean Löhe, tenor, with chorus and orchestra of the Berlin State Opera; Hansgeorg Otto, conductor , sung in German.
Death of the Poet:
On July 25, 1841, at Pyatigorsk, fellow army officer Nikolai Martynov, who felt offended by one of Lermontov's jokes, challenged him to a duel. The duel took place two days later at the foot of Mashuk mountain. Lermontov was killed by Martynov's first shot. Several of his verses were discovered posthumously in his notebook. He is buried at Tarkhany.
The Duel between Liszt and Thalberg. Angel 1975 Liszt. Ballade no. 2 in B minor.--Liszt. Funeral march from Donizetti's Dom Sébastien.--Thalberg. Fantasy on Rossini's Moses.--Thalberg. Fantasy on Rossini's Barber of Seville.  Raymond Lewenthal, piano.

The Poet's Dead

The Poet's dead! - a slave to honor -
He fell, by rumor slandered,
Lead in his breast and thirsting for revenge,
Hanging his proud head!...
The Poet's soul could not endure
Petty insult's disgrace.
Against society he rose,
Alone, as always...and was slain!
Slain!...What use is weeping now,
The futile chorus of empty praise
Excuses mumbled full of pathos?
Fate has pronounced its sentence!
Was it not you who spitefully
Rebuffed his free, courageous gift
And for your own amusement fanned
The nearly dying flame?
Well now, enjoy yourselves...he couldn't
Endure the final torture:
Quenched is the marvelous light of genius,
Withered is the triumphal wreath.

Cold-bloodedly his murderer
Took aim...there was no chance of flight:
His empty heart beat evenly,
The pistol steady in his hand.
No wonder...from far away
The will of fate sent him to us
Like hundreds of his fellow vagrants
In search of luck and rank;
With impudence he mocked and scorned
The tongue and mores of this strange land;
He could not spare our glory,
Nor in that bloody moment know
"gainst what he'd raised his hand!...

He's slain - and taken by the grave
Like that unknown, but happy bard,
Victim of jealousy wild,
Of whom he sang with wondrous power,
Struck down, like him, by an unyielding hand.

Why did he quit the blissful peace of simple fellowship
To enter this society, so envious and stifling
To hearts of free and fiery passion?
Why did he give his hand to worthless slanderers,
How could he have believed their hollow words
And kindness, he, who'd ever understood his fellow man?...

And they removed his wreath, and set upon his head
A crown of thorns entwined in laurel:
The hidden spines were cruel
And pierced his noble brow;
Poisoned were his final moments
By sly insinuations of mockers ignorant,
And thus he died - for vengeance vainly thirsting
Secretly vexed by false hopes deceived.
The wondrous singing's ceased,
T'will never sound again.
His refuge, gloomy and small,
His lips forever sealed.

___
And you, the offspring arrogant
Of fathers known for malice,
Crushing with slavish heels the ruins
Of clans aggrieved by fortune's game!
You, greedy hordes around the throne,
Killers of Freedom, Genius and Glory!
You hide beneath the canopy of law
Fall silent - truth and justice before you...
But justice also comes from God, corruption's friends!
The judge most terrible awaits you:
He's hardened to the clink of gold,
He knows your future thoughts and deeds.
Then will you turn in vain to lies:
They will no longer help.
And your black blood won't wash away
The poet's sacred blood!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From high atop the beautiful Pinsk region, not too far from Minsk, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Woody Allen. The role of the Bobbsie Twins is being played by Annie and Fannie Hall. The role of Ken Moss is being played by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Sandy Semipalatinsk. Our featured great Russian writer today is  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

The Brothers: 
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia.
Joan Baez – Satisfied Mind(Duet w/Lilly Brothers) Live at Newport
Woody Allen, Love and Death
Otakar Jeremiás – Bratři Karamazovi. Opera in 3 Acts: Act 1: Darebáku, přijde dnes ona? Otakar Jeremiás – The Brothers Karamazov Antonín Votava, Karel Kala?, Václav Eremiá?, Drahomíra Tikalová, Jarmila Pechová, Antonín Zlesák, Josef Heriban
Bronislaw Kaper – The Brothers Karamazov – Kaper, B.: Film Music played by the composer
The Allman Brothers Band – Midnight Rider – The Best Of The Allman Brothers 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection
The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes  – Rhino Hi-Five: The Doobie Brothers [Vol. 2]
The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody  – The Very Best Of The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody


Crime and Punishment: 
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. 
Alex Jennings – Crime & Punishment: Chapter 1, On The Brink 
Frank Black – Bullet Various Artists – Crime And Punishment In Suburbia
Sleater-Kinney – Burn, Don't Freeze Various Artists – Crime And Punishment In Suburbia
Nigel Anthony – Crime & Punishment: Chapter 2, Murder Is Done  – Dostoyevsky: Crime & Punishment
Meat Puppets – Two Rivers Various Artists – Crime And Punishment In Suburbia
Nigel Anthony – Crime & Punishment: Chapter 8, Admission Of Guilt  – Dostoyevsky: Crime & Punishment

The Idiot:
The 26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburg for his trusting nature and naiveté, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness precipitates disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium may be the only place for a saint
Fyodor Sofronov  Duet for violin and viola Elena Ivanova Violin Olga Kogan Viola.
Chumbawamba – Dance, Idiot, Dance – ABCDEFG
Monty Python – Idiot Song - Live – Live At Drury Lane

Nikolai Myaskovsky Composer Silence, symphonic poem after Poe, Op.9  

Stankovsky, Robert Conductor Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra

Ivan Turgenev

From high atop the hunter's lodge in the forest primeval, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. The role of Sadko today is being played by Dick Cheney. The role of the Bobbsie Twins is being played by Holly and Molly Hunter. The role of Ken Moss is being played by Ken Ruger. In the third half of the program, the role of Lenny the Listener will  be played by Fortesque B. Pomegranate. Our featured great Russian writer today is Ivan Turgenev. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (November 9, 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism. The book is credited with having influenced public opinion in favor of the abolition of serfdom in 1861 and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.While he was still in Russia in the early 1850s, Turgenev wrote several novellas (povesti in Russian): "The Diary of a Superfluous Man ("Дневник лишнего человека"), Faust ("Фауст"), The Lull ("Затишье"), expressing the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. In 1854 he moved to Western Europe, and during the following years produced the novel Rudin ("Рудин"), the story of a man in his thirties, who is unable to put his talents and idealism to any use in the Russia of Nicholas I. Rudin is also full of nostalgia for the idealistic student circles of the 1840s.
Waltz from The OPERA Ivan SUSANIN (M.GLINKA) Miguel Del Oro Orchestra – 100 MASTERPIECES OF WORLD Classical MUSIC  PART 2
Max Bollinger – Nobleman's Nest– The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Ivan Rebroff – Patrouille des cosaques  – Best of Ivan Rebroff (18 Hits)
George Frideric Handel – Concerto No. 3 in G Minor for Organ and Orchestra, HWV 291, Op. 4: III. Adagio  – Relax Classics Ivan Sokol, organ
Max Bollinger – A Man of Mystery– The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Ivan Rebroff – Katjuscha, Katjuscha !– Best of Ivan Rebroff (18 Hits)
George Frideric Handel – Concerto No. 4 in F Major for Organ and Orchestra, HWV 292, Op. 4: III. Adagio – Classical Hits for Relaxing Ivan Sokol, organ
Max Bollinger – The Portrait – The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Ivan Rebroff – Boublitschki – Best of Ivan Rebroff (18 Hits)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 Ivan Sokol, organ  – J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue for Organ Vol. 1 (Digitally Remastered)
Max Bollinger – The Great Hunt – The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Ivan Rebroff – Les Deux Guitares – Best of Ivan Rebroff (18 Hits)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532J – J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue for Organ Vol. 1 (Digitally Remastered) Ivan Sokol, organ
Max Bollinger – The New Nobility – The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Ivan Rebroff – Stenka Rasin – Best of Ivan Rebroff (18 Hits)
Borodin String Quartet – Clarinet Quintet In B Minor, Op. 115: II. Adagio Brahms: Clarinet Quintet / Mozart: String Quartet No. 15
Max Bollinger – My Own Nephew – The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
Vasily Shumov – Turgenev's Women  – Acoustics
Style of Five – Utro Tumannoye (Misty Morning) - Arr. For Baritone And Orchestra Lev Mey – I Met You, My Love
Max Bollinger – A French Affair – The Hunting Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, Audio Book 1: My Neighbour Radilov and Other Stories
 

Sergei Yesenin

The last two years of Yesenin's life he created some of his most famous poems, but he also suffered from alcoholism, experienced a mental breakdown and was hospitalised for a month. Two days after his release, he cut his wrist, wrote a farewell poem in his own blood and hanged himself from the heating pipes on the ceiling of his room in the Hotel Angleterre. He was 30 years old.
Aleksander Wertyński sings Sergei Yesenin - Goodbye, My Friend, Goodbye Odeon 1929 (Polish) It had been inspired by a farewell note, left by Yesenin in his room in Hotel d'Angleterre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in Russia, after his suicidal death on the 25th December, 1925:

Da svidanya drug moj, da svidanya...
(Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.

Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness — furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer....) -Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin.

Alexander Novikov
 My maple, all leafless, maple frozen over, Why are you bending down under the drifting snow. Maybe you saw  something? Maybe you heard something? Or you left your village just to go out. And as drunken watchman, stepping on a road, In the snow drowned with your foot being frozen. I , myself , somehow had  become unsteady. Couldn't find the road from the friendly kegger. Here I met a pine tree, there noticed a willow, And of summer I sang to them, joined by wind and snow. Seemed to me that I am like this maple lonely, Only not being frozen but still green all over. And by losing shyness, plastered as a sailor, I hugged birch with passion as  the wife of stranger.

Don Juan
It may be late for me or else too soon,
For so many years 't did not occur
That I bear resemblance to Don Juan,
Looking like a real fickle poet.

What's become of me then? What has happened?
Every day I'm at another's feet,
Daily, I refuse to spare myself and
Still defy the venom of deceit.

Never did I want my heart to hover
In the feeling, delicate and simple.
What do I seek in those women's eyes then,
Thoughtless, full of idleness and conceit?

Hold me down, control me, my disdain,
You have always noted me till now.
There is, in my heart, a chilly flame
And of lilacs bluish rustling sound,

In the heart, a sunset's hue of lemon,
But the same is heard like through a gloom:
For the rein of feeling, there's a payment,
Take you up the gauntlet then, Don Juan!

Whereas taking up the gauntlet calmly,
For my future, still the same I see --
To mistake the snows for blue May flowering,
To mistake for love a sensual thrill.

This is what's with me, this is what's happened,
Hence I'm always at so many feet,
And, in order to be lifelong happy,
I defy the venom of deceit.


Oleg Pogudin
A golden grove has ceased at last its chatter
In a merry accent of its birches' tongue.
Afar, a flight of cranes, dejected, flutter,
No more lamenting over anyone.

Who to lament for? In this world, we're strangers:
Go by, come in and leave the house anon.
The gone are summoned up by but a hemp-close
And a harvest moon above a bluish pond.

I'm all alone amid a barren flatland.
A gust of wind is carrying cranes away.
It is my joyful youth that I'm intent on,
But nothing in the gone do I bewail.

I don't feel sorry for the years being squandered,
Or for a lilac thriving of my soul.
A fire of rowan berries, in the courtyard,
Is burning red albeit unable to warm.

The rowan berry clusters will not scorch, and
The grass won't perish from the yellow dry.
Like trees are slowly shedding their foliage,
So am I shedding doleful words of mine.

And if the time, when sweeping with an airflow,
Should grab them all in one unwanted lump,
Then say as follows... that a golden birch grove
Has ceased its chatter in a lovely tongue.


The Retuses - Письмо к женщине (Live @ TV Rain)
Jeanne Aguzarova – Touching Yesenin   – Russian album
A. (Aleksandr) Demidov – Homecoming - Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin  Modern Soviet Poetry and Humor: Read by Alexander Demidov
A. (Aleksandr) Demidov – Flowers - Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin Modern Soviet Poetry and Humor: Read by Alexander Demidov
Maple Nikolai Massenkoff Sings With Balalaika Orchestra
His first marriage was in 1913 to Anna Izryadnova, a co-worker from the publishing house, with whom he had a son, Yuri.
Rachmaninoff, Sergei,1873-1943. Preludes and transcriptions. Capitol-EMI[1959]  Transcriptions: Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn) Colin Horsley, piano.
From 1916 to 1917, Yesenin was drafted into military duty, but soon after the October Revolution of 1917, Russia exited World War I. Believing that the revolution would bring a better life, Yesenin briefly supported it, but soon became disillusioned. He sometimes criticised the Bolshevik rule in such poems as The Stern October Has Deceived Me. In August 1917 Yesenin married for a second time to Zinaida Raikh (later an actress and the wife of Vsevolod Meyerhold). They had two children, a daughter Tatyana and a son Konstantin. The parents quarreled and lived separately for some time prior to their divorce in 1921. 
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,1809-1847.Die erste Walpurgisnacht. op. 60. Decca [1969] The 1st work sung in German; words by Goethe.  Lili Chookasian, contralto; Ernst Haefliger, tenor; Hermann Prey, baritone; Raymond Michalski, bass; Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus; Frederic Waldman, conductor.

1. Overture, in A minor for orchestra
2. Es lacht der Mai!
3. Konnt ihr so ver
4. Opfer heut zu bringen
5. Vertheilt euch hier
6. Diese dumpfen Pfaffenchristen
7. Kommt mit Zacken und mit
8. So weit

In the fall of 1921, while visiting the studio of painter Georgi Yakulov, Yesenin met the Paris-based American dancer Isadora Duncan, a woman 18 years his senior. She knew only a dozen words in Russian, and he spoke no foreign languages. They married on 2 May 1922. Yesenin accompanied his celebrity wife on a tour of Europe and the United States. His third marriage to Duncan was brief and in May 1923, he returned to Moscow.
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich,1840-1893. Swan lake ballet (Suite) op. 20. Columbia,[1970]  New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
In 1923 Yesenin became romantically involved with the actress Augusta Miklashevskaya to whom he dedicated several poems. The same year he had a son by the poet Nadezhda Volpin. Their son, Alexander Esenin-Volpin grew up to become a poet and a prominent activist in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s. He lives in the United States, a famous mathematician and teacher.
In 1925 Yesenin met and married his fourth wife, Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya, a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy.
Ballet music from the operas Angel Records [1961]  Aïda: Ballet music, act 2, by Verdi.--Khovantschina: Dance of the Persian slaves, act 4, by Moussorgsky, orch. by Rimsky-Korsakov.--Prince Igor: Dances of the Polovtsian maidens, act 2, no. 8, and Polovtsian dances, act 2, no. 17, by Borodin, orch. Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov.--La Gioconda: Dance of the hours, act. 3, by Ponchielli.-- Tannhäuser: Venusberg music, act 1, by Wagner.  Philharmonia Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan, conductor.

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova is the literary pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko. Her first husband was Gumilev, and she too became one of the leading Acmeist poets. Her second book of poems, Beads (1914), brought her fame. Her earlier manner, intimate and colloquial, gradually gave way to a more classical severity, apparent in her volumes The Whte Flock (1917) and Anno Domini MCMXXI (1922). The growing distaste which the personal and religious elements in her poetry aroused in Soviet officialdom forced her thereafter into long periiods of silence; and the poetic masterpieces of her later years, A Poem without a Hero and Requiem, were published abroad.  
A recital of Russian songs. Philips [1969] 5 poems by Anna Akhmatova, by Profofiev. Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano; Mstislav Rostropovich, piano;  sung in Russian.
1.

Sunshine has filled the room 
with clear golden specks of dust.
I woke up and remembered,
dear, it was your birthday.

But far beyond my windows 
snow has covered the ground, 
And made me forget, so now to atone, 
I sleep without dreams.

2.

True tenderness is silent 
and can't be mistaken for anything else.
In vain with earnest desire 
you cover my shoulders with fur;
In vain you try to persuade me 
of the merits of first love.
But I know too well the meaning 
of your persistent burning glances.

3.
Pamjat' o solnce v serdce slabejet,
Zheltej trava.
Veter snezhinkami rannimi vejet
Jedva-jedva.

Iva na nebe pustom rasplastala
Vejer skvoznoj.
Mozhet byt', luchshe, chto ja ne stala
Vashej zhenoj.

Pamjat' o solnce v serdce slabejet.
Chto `eto? T'ma? 
Mozhet byt'! Za noch' prijti uspejet
Zima.

4.

Greetings! Do you hear the soft rustle 
beside your table?
Don't bother to write 
for I'll come to you.

Is it possible you are angry
with me like the last time?
You say that you don't want to see my hands,
my hands or my eyes.

I am with you in your bright, simple room.
Don't chase me away 
to where the cold, murky water 
flows under the bridge.

5.

Slava tebe, bezyskhodnaja bol'!
Umer vchera seroglazyj korol'.
Vecher osennij byl dushen i al.
Muzh moj, vernuvshis', spokojno skazal:
,,Znajesh', s okhoty jego prinesli,
Telo u starogo duba nashli.
Zhal' korolevu. Takoj molodoj!
Za noch' odnu ona stala sedoj.``

Trubku svoju na kamine nashjol
I na rabotu nochnuju ushjol.
Dochku moju ja sejchas razbuzhu,
V seryje glazki jejo pogljazhu.
A za oknom shelestjat topolja:
,,Net na zemle tvojego korolja.` 

Akhmatova reciting the poem “To the Muse,” from the video the Akhmatova File.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 Notenbuch der Anna Magdalena Bach (1725) Pages from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach Decca, [1966]   Charles Bressler, tenor ; New York Chamber Soloists.
Moffo, Anna.  Arias from Faust, La Bohème, Dinorah, Carmen, Semiramide, Turandot, Lakmé RCA Victor, [c1961]  Sung in Italian and French.  Anna Moffo, soprano; Rome Opera House Orchestra; Tullio Serafin, conductor.
Prokofiev, Sergey,| 1891-1953. Alexander Nevsky (Cantata) op. 78. [Based on music for the Eisenstein film, with words by Lugovskoi & Prokofiev.]  Angel, 1972.  Anna Reynolds, mezzo-soprano; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus; André Previn, conductor.
Montemezzi, Italo, 1875-1952  L'amore dei tre re opera in three acts. Libretto by Sem Benelli, based on his play of the same name] RCA,  1977  Anna Moffo, soprano; Placido Domingo, Ryland Davies, tenors; Pablo Elvira, baritone; Cesare Siepi, bass; supporting soloists; Ambrosian Opera Chorus;
London Symphony Orchestra; Nello Santi, conductor.
Mad scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet [and] Il pirata. Angel [1959]   Donizetti, G. Anna Bolena: Plangete voi? Al dolce guidami castel natio. Maria Meneghini Callas, soprano; supporting soloists; Philharmonia Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra; Nicola Rescigno, conductor.
Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich,1932-  Anna Karenina. complete ballet. Melodiya / Angel [1973]  Bolshoi Theater Orchestra; Yuri Simonov, conductor.