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        • Dmitri Shostakovich

        • Four Songs on Texts of Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Op. 86 (1951)

        • 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.

        • pf
        • Voice
        • 15 min

        Programme Note

        For high voice and piano

        Shostakovich originally composed No. 1 (‘The Motherland Hears, the Motherland Knows’) for solo voice and a cappella choir published both in Vol. 34 of Muzyka Collected Works and in Vol. 86 of DSCH New Collected Works. The composer also made two versions of No. 4 with differing words and key. No. 2 appears to have been written separately and later associated with the other three. No. 1 exists in many arrangements by different hands – its most famous performance was given by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961, and it has been used as signature tune of USSR Radio news broadcasts.

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        1. The Motherland Hears, the Motherland Knows (Festivo)
        2. Rescue Me (Moderato)
        3. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (Allegretto)
        4. Sleep, my Pretty (Lullaby) (Moderato)