Mieczysław Weinberg: Complete Songs, Volume One

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Children’s Songs, Op. 13, for soprano and piano, to poems of Itzhok Lejb Perez (1943)

1. No. 1, Introduction
2. No. 2, The Bread Roll
3. No. 3, Cradle Song
4. No. 4, The Hunter
5. No. 5, On the Green Mountainside
6. No. 6, Grief (The Orphan’s Letter) attacca Coda

Beyond the Border of Past Days, Op. 50: Song-cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, to poems of Alexander Blok (1943)


7. No. 1, Dedication
8. No. 2, War burns indomitably
9. No. 3, What for?
10. No. 4, Much has fallen silent
11. No. 5, The poor ignoramuses laughed
12. No. 6, A Spring Evening
13. No. 7, In the Twilight
14. No. 8, Someone was sighing at the grave
15. No. 9, A Voice
16. No. 10, Memory

Rocking the Child, Op. 110: Song cycle to poems of Gabriela Mistral (1943)


17. No. 1, The child was left alone
18. No. 2, And I am not alone
19. No. 3, Little feet, little hands
20. No. 4, Rocking the cradle
21. No. 5, Night
22. No. 6, A sorrowful mother
23. No. 7, The dew
24. No. 8, Meekness
25. No. 9, Fear
26. No. 10, A discovery
27. No. 11, My song