Songs and Dances of Death

Album by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky & Anatoly Safiullin & Nikolai Demidenko

Songs and Dances of Death is a song cycle by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1875 and 1877. The cycle consists of dramatic art songs for solo voice and piano that employ folk‑inflected melodies, stark piano textures and intense word‑setting to portray death, and it exemplifies Mussorgsky's mature, idiosyncratic approach to Russian art song in the late 19th century.
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  1. 1.
    Sunless: Within Four Walls
    1:38
  2. 2.
    Sunless: You Did Not Know Me in the Crowd
    0:45
  3. 3.
    Sunless: The Idle, Noisy Day Is Over
    3:05
  4. 4.
    Sunless: Boredom
    1:49
  5. 5.
    Sunless: Elegy
    3:35
  6. 6.
    Sunless: On the River
    4:22
  7. 7.
    The Peepshow
    13:39
  8. 8.
    The Nursery: With Nanny
    1:42
  9. 9.
    The Nursery: In the Corner
    1:41
  10. 10.
    The Nursery: The Beetle
    2:18
  11. 11.
    The Nursery: With Dolly
    2:13
  12. 12.
    The Nursery: Bedtime Prayer
    2:03
  13. 13.
    The Nursery: “Sailor” the Cat
    2:02
  14. 14.
    The Nursery: Riding the Hobby-Horse
    3:22
  15. 15.
    Songs and Dances of Death: Cradle Song
    4:53
  16. 16.
    Songs and Dances of Death: Serenade
    4:49
  17. 17.
    Songs and Dances of Death: Trepak
    4:39
  18. 18.
    Songs and Dances of Death: The Field-Marshal
    6:10
  19. 19.
    Mephistopheles’ Song of the Flea
    3:15

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