Back to my piano...

O cool evening wave

lap gently under the oars of the gondola

...that song again! in the distance,

now melancholy, now happy,

was heard the sound of the old barcarolle:

'the gondola glides through the water,

and time flies through love.

the water become smooth again

and passion will rise no more.

-Lermontov-

It is the hour when from the boughs

the nightingale's highnote is heard.

It is the hour when lovers' vows

seem sweet in every whisper'd word.

and gentle winds, and waters near,

make music to the lonely ear.

-Byron-

Human tears, O human tears!

you flow both early and late,

you flow unknown, you flow unseen

inexhaustible, innumerable...

you flow like torrents of rain

in the depths of an autumn night.

-Tyutchev-

The mighty peal rang out over the earth,

and all the air, moaning shuddered and groaned.

Melodious, silver thunderings

told the news of the holy triumph.

-Khomyakov-

Οι Lyubov Bruk και Mark Taimanov

ερμηνεύουν την 1η Σουίτα Rachmaninov για 2 πιάνα

σε μια ιστορική εκτέλεση του 1959.