Sing with Me 94 Russian Song

Today we explore a folk song which has known authours and has gone into opera. The lyrics is a modified poem by Anton Delvig a Moscow-born poet from a Russified Baltic baron family.
He studied at a private boarding school then at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
He is known to us by his connection to the Decembrist movement mid 1810s 1825.
Mikhail Glinkas writes in his Notes in 1829: Delvig wrote me a romance Not a Drizzling Autumn Rain.
I later took music to these words for Antonidas Romance Im not grieving about that friends in the opera A Life for the Tsar.
In Glinkas notes it should be performed by two tenors and a bass accompanied by a musical instrument.
Others wrote music for this text too.
Our version of the song became popular in the first half of the 19th century.
It is mostly sung with a melody similar to Glinkas tune. Listen to the song performed by the great Fyodor Chaliapin 1911 and the Alexandrov Choir also watch and listen to the Glinkas Antoninas Romance from A Life for the Tzar on the past sessions web page

Источник: rutube.ru