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STRAVINSKY Tepér’ Ne Uletísh’ Tï Please Do Not Fly Away Now; Prì Dvoré Ya Pérvoì Sdélayu Tebyá Osóboi 557501bk Strav US 18/7/05 10:11 am Page 24 ° IMPERATOR ° EMPEROR Kak khoroshó, Solóvushko, How sweetly sung, O little bird! Ko mne vernúlis’ sílï. I feel my strength returning. STRAVINSKY Tepér’ ne uletísh’ tï Please do not fly away now; Prì dvoré ya pérvoì sdélayu tebyá osóboi. In my court you will become the first and highest person. The Rite of Spring SOLOVEI NIGHTINGALE Akh net, akh net, Oh no, oh no, Mne lúchshii dar dostálsya: The gift you gave is better: Ya slyózï vídel na tvoíkh glazákh, The tears that fill your eyes are my reward, The Nightingale Velíkii Imperátor. O Emperor almighty. Akh, slyoz tekh nìkogdá ya ne zabúdu. Ah, I will not forget these tears, my ruler. Trífonova • Tear • Longworth • Whelan I búdu priletát’ k tebé Each night I will return to you I pet’ ya kázhdoi nóch’yu, And sing until the daybreak. I búdu pet’ tebé vsyu noch’, Good-bye, good-bye, great Emperor, London Symphony Orchestra • Philharmonia Orchestra Vsyu noch’ do sámavo razsvéta! I will return Proshchái, proshchái, And sing until daybreak! Velíkii Imperátor! O Emperor, O Emperor almighty! Robert Craft · Funeral procession · Funeral procession: The courtiers, believing the Emperor to be dead, enter to the sound of a solemn march and advance towards the bedchamber. Pages draw aside the bed-curtains and the room is flooded in sunlight. The Emperor, attired in full regalia, is standing in the centre. The courtiers prostrate themselves. ‚ IMPERATOR ‚ EMPEROR Zdrávstvuite! Be welcome here! RÏBAK VOICE OF THE FISHERMAN Sólntse vzoshló, kónchilas’ noch’, The night is ended with the new sun, Grómko poyút ptitsï v lesákh. Now birds are singing, the day begun. Slúshaite ikh: gólosom ptits Listen to them, with them rejoice, Sam govorít nebésnïy dukh. They are the spirit’s heavenly voice. Coaching in Russian by Alexander Naoumchenko © Copyright 1914 Hawkes & Son (london) Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd. 8.557501 24 557501bk Strav US 18/7/05 10:11 am Page 2 Igor Est’ sad drugói. Lies beyond another wall. STRAVINSKY (1882-1971) SMERT’ DEATH Mne slúshat’ nrávitsya, kak tï poyósh’. I like to hear your songs, Zachém umólknul? Why did you stop? The Rite of Spring (1911-13) 31:58 Scene 2: The porcelain palace Spoi eschchó. I want to hear more. Sing again! of the Chinese Emperor First Part – Adoration of the Earth ™ Prelude: Chorus and Orchestra 1:27 SOLOVEI NIGHTINGALE 1 Introduction 3:19 £ Cook 0:20 Otdái korónu Imperátoru! Oh, give the crown back to the Emperor! 2 The Augurs of Spring / ¢ Reprise of the Prelude 0:22 Otdásh’! Togdá spoyú eshchó. Give it back, and I will sing once more. Dances of the Young Girls 3:14 ∞ Chinese March 3:10 3 Ritual of Abduction 1:19 § Chamberlain 0:14 SMERT’ DEATH 4 Spring Rounds 3:09 ¶ Song of the Nightingale 4:12 Korónu? Korónu? Return it? Return it? 5 Ritual of the Rival Tribes 3:10 • The Japanese Envoys 1:18 Nu khoroshó, I will agree. 6 Dance of the Earth 1:18 ª The Mechanical Nightingale 0:59 Korónu ya otdám, smotrì, I will return the crown, you see. º The Emperor, Chamberlain, Courtiers 0:59 Nu poi zhe, poi eshchó. But sing, but sing once more. Second Part – The Sacrifice ⁄ Reprise of the Chinese March 0:50 7 Introduction 3:31 ¤ Fisherman 0:59 SOLOVEI NIGHTINGALE 8 Mystic Circles of the Young Girls 3:08 I sáblyu dragotsénnuyu i známya Give also back the precious sword and standard, 9 Glorification of the Chosen One 1:37 Scene 3: The Emperor’s Bedchamber Otdái. I búdu pet’ ya do razsvéta. Give them back, and I will sing until daybreak. 0 Evocation of the Ancestors 0:41 ‹ Prelude 2:43 ! Ritual Action of the Ancestors 2:58 › Chorus of Ghosts, Emperor 1:08 SMERT’ DEATH @ Sacrificial Dance 4:34 fi Nightingale 2:12 Ya vsyo, ya vsyo otdám. Yes, I will give them back fl Death and the Nightingale 1:29 Tebyá khochú ya slúshat’. To hear again such singing. ‡ The Nightingale’s Aria 1:25 Solovei — The Nightingale (1908-9; 1913-14) 44:30 ° Emperor and Nightingale 1:41 ‡ SOLOVEI ‡ NIGHTINGALE Lyric Tale in Three Acts · Funeral Procession 1:14 Pechál’nïy sad umérshikh. The moon is shining sadly, After Hans Christian Andersen ‚ Fisherman 1:06 Akh, v tom sadú tak tikho. Ah, graves buried in silence, I pádaet rosá Graves green with moss, dripping dewdrops, Scene 1: The forest at dawn S vetveí tsvetúshchei slivï How sad death’s garden, # Introduction 3:05 Na mokh mogíl zabïtïkh. How cold and sad death’s garden! $ Fisherman 3:32 Pechál’nïy svétit mésyats, The moon is shining sadly, % Nightingale’s Aria 3:01 Pechál’nïy sad umérshíkh. On graveyards lost in silence. ^ Chamberlain, Bonze, Cook, Courtiers 2:50 Akh, tíkho myórknut zvyózdï. Ah, now the stars are fading, & Second Entrance of the Nightingale 0:47 Sredí kamnéi mogíl’nïkh tumánov White wreaths of fog, floating and weaving, * Chamberlain and Bonze 0:24 Bélïkh klóch’ya pogásli svet yachki! Surround the tombstones, ( Nightingale’s Second Aria 0:44 Pechál’nïy svétit mésyats, and glowworms put out their light! ) Chamberlain and Bonze 0:52 Pechál’nïy sad umérshikh. The moon is shining sadly, ¡ Fisherman 1:26 On graveyards lost in silence. Death disappears. It begins to get light. 8.557501 2 23 8.557501 557501bk Strav US 18/7/05 10:11 am Page 22 Mï vse prishlí syudá. To serve with you your past. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) O, vspómni vspómni tï, You must remember us, Vspómni tï o nas! Must remember us. The Rite of Spring The Rite was conceived as two equal and Vspómni! Hear us! complementary parts, The Adoration of the Earth, “Composing The Rite, I had only my ear to help which takes place in daytime, and The Sacrifice of the IMPERATOR EMPEROR me. I heard and I wrote what I heard.” Chosen One, which takes place at night. The Shto éto? Kto oní? Who is it? What are you? Introduction to Part One represents the reawakening of — Igor Stravinsky Nature. The curtain rises at the end of it for the Augurs PRIVIDENIYA SPECTRES of Spring, in which an old woman soothsayer is Mï vse tvoí delá, We are all your past deeds, Stravinsky was inspired by a vision of The Rite of accompanied by a group of young girls. The Ritual of Mï zdes’, mï ne uidyóm. We will not go away. Spring while completing The Firebird. His own title for Abduction follows, then the Round-dances of Spring, O vspómni, vspómni tï, You must remember us, it was Vesna Svyashchénnaya, Holy Spring, and he was the Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes, the Procession of the Vspómní tï o nas! Must remember us. never happy with Léon Bakst’s more memorable Le Sage, the Sage’s Kiss of the Earth, and the Dance of the Vspómní! Hear us! Sacre du printemps, believing that “The Coronation of Earth. Spring” was closer to his original meaning. Part Two, “The Sacrifice,” or as the composer IMPERATOR EMPEROR Soon after the success of The Firebird, Stravinsky called it, “The Great Offering,” begins after an Akh, ya ne znáyu vas! I do not understand, I do not want, contacted Nicolas Roerich, artist, archaeologist, Introduction to “the secret night-games of the maidens Ya ne khochú, ya ne khochú vas slúshat’! I will not listen to you! ethnologist, whom he met through his nephew, a fellow- on the sacred hill”. The music accompanying these Akh, múzïki, syudá skorée, múzïki, múzïki! Play music now! Musician, quickly play to me, pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, to share his vision and to mysterious rituals is quiet but foreboding. After two Bol’shíkh kitáiskikh barabánov! Chinese drums and gongs and cymbals, propose collaboration in a “choreodrama. “Who else intimations of danger, effectuated first by harsh chords Akh, múzïki, múzïki! start the music! could help me,” he wrote to the St Petersburg critic in muted horns, then by muted horns and trumpets, and Oh, where are you, musician? N. F. Findeyzen, “who else knows the secret of our by eleven savage drum beats, a wild dance, the ancestors’ close feeling for the earth?” During the Glorification of the Chosen One, erupts, leading without fi SOLOVEI fi NIGHTINGALE summer of 1910, however, Stravinsky’s imagination pause to the Evocation of the Ancestors, the Ritual Akh, zdes’, ya zdes’, Ah, I am here, was seized by Petrushka, and when Dyagilev and Dance of the Ancestors, and the Sacrificial Dance. Velíkii Imperátor! O Emperor almighty! Nijinsky visited him in Lausanne to discuss Vesna The Sacrificial Dance began with an unpitched Tebé spoyú o tom kak I come to tell how beautiful Svyashchénnaya, they were astonished to hear sketches notation of the rhythmic germ written during a walk Khoroshó v sadú tvoyóm! Akh! Your garden is tonight! Ah! for a puppet drama, which so fascinated Nijinsky that he with Ravel in Monte Carlo in the spring of 1912. Pierre Noch’ sínyaya uzh blízitsya k kontsú. Night yields to dawn, it will soon be morning. persuaded Dyagilev to postpone The Rite. Stravinsky Monteux, who would conduct the riotous première of Mertsán’e zvyozd s dïkhániem Stars above glowing explained the predicament to Roerich, but urged him to The Rite in Paris, 29th May, 1913, was also in Monte Dushístïk tsvetóv slilós’, Unfold the flowers below. continue with the scenario, and also to design its Carlo, and was present when Stravinsky played the not- I ya ne znáyu ból’she And fragrant breaths of flowers, costumes and sets.
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