Russian Settings of Robert Burns

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Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1955)

1. No. 1: ‘Davno li tsvel zeleniy dol’ (‘The burgeoning dale was lately green’: ‘The Winter of Life’)
2. No. 2: ‘Vozvrashcheniye soldata’ (‘The Return of the Soldier’: ‘The Sodger’s Return’)
3. No. 3: ‘John Anderson’ (‘John Anderson, my Jo’)
4. No. 4: ‘Robin’ (‘Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin’)
5. No. 5: ‘Gorsky paren’ (‘Highland Laddie’)
6. No. 6: ‘Findlay’ (‘Wha Is That At My Bower-Door?’)
7. No. 7: ‘Vsiu zemliu tmoy zavoloklo’ (‘There Is Darkness Over All the Land’: ‘Guidwife, Count the Lawin’)
8. No. 8: ‘Proshchay’ (‘Farewell’: ‘A Red, Red Rose’)
9. No. 9: ‘Chestnaya bednost’ (‘Honest Poverty’: ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’)

Two Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1951)


10. No. 1: Malen’kaya ballada (‘A Little Ballad’: ‘There Was a Bonnie Lass’)
11. No. 2: ‘Jenny’ (‘Comin thro’ the Rye’)

Three Songs from Six Romances for Bass, Op. 62 (1942)


12. No. 2: ‘V polyakh, pod snegom i dozhdyom’ (‘In Snow-girt Fields’: ‘O, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast’)
13. No. 3: ‘McPherson pered kazn’yu’ (‘McPherson before his Execution’: ‘McPherson’s Farewell’)
14. No. 4: ‘Jenny’ (‘Comin thro’ the Rye’)

Song-Cycle to Verses by Robert Burns, Op. 51 (1956)


15. No. 1: ‘Lyubov’ (‘Love’: ‘A Red, Red Rose’)
16. No. 2: ‘John Anderson’ (‘John Anderson, my Jo’)
17. No. 3: ‘Shelagh O’Neil’
18. No. 4: ‘Gde-to v peshchere’ (‘Somewhere in a cave’: ‘Had I a Cave’)
19. No. 5: ‘Iz vsekh vetrov’ (‘Of all winds’: ‘Of A’ the Airts’)

Three Songs from Five Songs to Verses by Robert Burns (1944)


20. No. 1: ‘Zastol’naya’ (‘A Toast’: ‘Auld Lang Syne’)
21. No. 2: ‘Luchshy paren’ (‘The Bonniest Lad’: ‘Highland Laddie’)
22. No. 5: ‘V polyakh, pod snegom i dozhdyom’ (‘In Snow-girt Fields’: ‘O, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast’)