Six Romances to verses by English poets, for bass & piano, op. 62
Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Yuri Serov & Fedor Kuznetsov
Six Romances on Verses by English Poets, Op. 62 is a song cycle by Dmitri Shostakovich for bass and piano, composed in 1942. Scored for bass voice and piano, the cycle sets English poetry in a concentrated, sombre vocal-miniature style with spare piano textures and moments of stark dissonance, and it sits among Shostakovich's wartime output as an example of his turn to intimate, introspective vocal pieces during that period.
First released: 2002
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- 1."The Wood, the Weed, the Wag" (To Son)
- 2."O, Wert thou in the Cauld Blast" (In the Fields)
- 3."Macpherson before his Execution" (Macpherson Farewell)
- 4."Jenny": "Coming thro' the Rye"
- 5."Sonnet No. 66": "Tired with all these"
- 6."The King's Campaign" (The Grand Old Duke of York)
