VALENTIN SILVESTROV (*1937) SILENT SONGS 1 Song can heal the ailing spirit Yevgeni Abramovich Baratynsky 2 There were storms and tempests Yevgeni Abramovich Baratynsky 3 La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats (transl. Wilhelm Veniaminovich Lewick) 4 O melancholy time! Delight for eyes! Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (excerpt from “Autumn”) 5 Farewell, O world, farewell, O earth Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (excerpt from “The Dream”) 6 I will tell you with complete directness Osip Emil’evich Mandelstam 7 Here’s a health to thee, Mary Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (after a poem by Bryan Waller Procter) 8 Winter Journey Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin 9 The Isle Percy Bysshe Shelley (transl. Aleksandr Solomonovich Rapoport) 10 Autumn Song Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin 11 Swamps and marshes Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin 12 Winter Evening Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin Konstantin Krimmel baritone Hélène Grimaud piano
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