Songs
Don Giovanni Serenade
(1878)
Op. 38 no.1
Part of a series or song cycle:
6 Romances (Op. 38)
Don Giovanni Serenade
Gasnut dalney Alpukhary
Zolotistiye kraya.
Na prizyvnyi zvon gitary, vydi, milaya moya!
Vse kto skazhet, shto drugaya,
Zdes’ ravnyayetsya s toboy,
Vsekh, lyuboviyu zgoraya,
Vsekh, vsekh, vsekh zovu na smertnyy boy!
Ot lunnogo sveta zardel nebosklon,
O vyidi Nisetta, O vyidi Nisetta
Skorey na balkon!
Ot Sevili do Grenady
V tikhom sumrake nochey,
Razdayutsa serenady
Razdayotsa zvon mechey.
Mnogo krovi, mnogo pesney,
Dlya prelesnykh lyutsa dam,
Ya zhe toy,kto vsekh prelesney,
Pesn i krov moyu otdam!
Ot lunnogo sveta zardel nebosklon,
O vyidi Nisetta, O vyidi Nisetta,
Skorey na balkon!
Don Giovanni Serenade
Night falls on the golden lands
Of distant Alpujarras,
Come out, my dear, to the call of my guitar!
If anybody dares to claim
That another can compare with you,
I shall fight them all, burning with love,
Fight them to the death!
The sky’s horizon is aglow in the moonlight,
Oh come out, Nisetta, come out, Nisetta,
Come out on to the balcony now!
From Seville to Grenada,
In the quiet darkness of the night,
Comes the sound of serenading,
Comes the clatter of swords.
Blood is spilt and songs flow forth,
All for the sake of beautiful ladies,
I will give my song and my blood
To the one who is loveliest of all!
The sky’s horizon is aglow in the moonlight,
Oh come out, Nisetta, come out, Nisetta,
Come out on to the balcony now!
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Previously performed at:
- 10 Jun 2018: Michael Mofidian & Keval Shah - Pollock House
- 08 May 2018: Bethan Langford, Ashley Riches & Sholto Kynoch
- 27 Oct 2017: Tchaikovsky: Andrei Bondarenko & Gary Matthewman
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