Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death; The Nursery No 1-7

Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)

Songs & Dances of Death; 

The Nursery Nos. 1-7

and other Songs  

Sergei Leiferkus (Baritone)
Semion Skigin (Piano)


Track Listings
1. Songs And Dances Of Death: Lullaby
2. Songs And Dances Of Death: Ser
3. Songs And Dances Of Death: Trepak
4. Songs And Dances Of Death: The Field-Marshal

5. The Nursery: With Nanny
6. The Nursery: In The Corner
7. The Nursery: The Beetle
8. The Nursery: With The Doll
9. The Nursery: At Bedtime
10. The Nursery: The Hobby Horse
11. The Nursery: The Cat 'Sailor'

12. The Puppet-Show
13. Forgotten
14. The Seminarist
15. Darling Savishna
16. The He-Goat A Worldly Story
17. Mepistopheles' Song Of The Flea

Songs and Dances of Death  is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.

Each song deals with death in a poetic manner although the depictions are realistic in that they reflect experiences not uncommon in 19th century Russia: child death, death in youth, drunken misadventure and war.

The song cycle is considered Mussorgsky's masterpiece in the genre.

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