Songs

Night (Romance - fantasia)

by Modest Mussorgsky

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Text & Translation

Night (Romance - fantasia)
Russian source: Alexander Pushkin

Moj golos dlja tebja i laskovyj i tomnyj
Trevozhit pozdnoje molchan'e nochi tjomnoj.
Bliz lozha mojego pechal'naja svecha
Gorit; moi stikhi, slivajas' i zhurcha,
Tekut, ruch'i ljubvi, tekut, polny toboju.
Vo t'me tvoi glaza blistajut predo mnoju,
Mne ulybajutsja, i zvuki slyshu ja:
Moj drug, moj nezhnyj drug... ljublju... tvoja... tvoja!...

Night (Romance - Fantasia)
English translation © Philip Ross Bullock

My voice, for you both tender and languid,
Disturbs the late silence of the dark night.
Near my bed a candle sadly burns;
My verses, merging and murmuring,
Flow, like streams of love, they flow, full of you.
In the gloom, and your eyes shine before me,
They smile at me, and I hear sounds:
‘My friend, my tender friend… I love you… I am yours… yours!...

Night (Romance - fantasia)
Russian source: Alexander Pushkin

Night (Romance - Fantasia)
English source: Philip Ross Bullock

Moj golos dlja tebja i laskovyj i tomnyj
My voice, for you both tender and languid,
Trevozhit pozdnoje molchan'e nochi tjomnoj.
Disturbs the late silence of the dark night.
Bliz lozha mojego pechal'naja svecha
Near my bed a candle sadly burns;
Gorit; moi stikhi, slivajas' i zhurcha,
My verses, merging and murmuring,
Tekut, ruch'i ljubvi, tekut, polny toboju.
Flow, like streams of love, they flow, full of you.
Vo t'me tvoi glaza blistajut predo mnoju,
In the gloom, and your eyes shine before me,
Mne ulybajutsja, i zvuki slyshu ja:
They smile at me, and I hear sounds:
Moj drug, moj nezhnyj drug... ljublju... tvoja... tvoja!...
‘My friend, my tender friend… I love you… I am yours… yours!...

Composer

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881) was a Russian composer. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the…

Poet

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born…

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