US/UK Customers
Located in Europe
Digital download
- Dmitri Shostakovich
Two Romances on Texts of Mikhail Lermontov, Op. 84 (1950)
- G Schirmer Inc (USA, Canada and Mexico only)
Le Chant Du Monde (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries)
G Schirmer is the publisher of the work in the USA, Canada and Mexico only. Le Chant du Monde is the publisher of the work in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Andorra, French speaking African countries.
Programme Note
Throughout Shostakovich’s artistic life, Mikhail Lermontov’s poetry was his constant companion, and he mulled over plans for operas based on Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Masquerade with the great theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who was brutally murdered by the authorities.
The Romances show Shostakovich’s romantic side in the ondine ballad with its seductive mermaid songs and dramatic turns for the worse in a tale of deadly seduction, and to an even greater extent in the gentle eroticism of Morning in the Caucasus.
____________________________
1. Ballad (Moderato)
2. Morning in the Caucasus (Moderato con moto)