From Jewish Folk Poetry

From Jewish Folk Poetry

From Jewish Folk Poetry (opus 79) is a song cycle for soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from archives of Jewish folk music compiled and translated by Moyshe Beregovsky and Y. M. Sokolov.

The piece was composed in the autumn of 1948, after Shostakovich's denunciation in the Zhdanov decree of that year. The composer's situation and the official anti-Semitism of the time made a public premiere impossible until January 15 1955, when it was performed by Shostakovich himself with Nina L'vovna Dorliak, Zara Dolukhanova and Alec Maslennikov. Before the premiere the work received a number of private performances.

The cycle is just one of many works by Shostakovich to incorporate elements of Jewish music; he said that he was attracted by "a jolly melody on sad intonations" (Wilson p. 235).

Structure

The cycle consists of 11 songs:

# The Lament for the Dead Child
# The Thoughtful Mother and Aunt
# Lullaby
# Before a Long Parting
# A Warning
# The Abandoned Father
# The Song of Misery
# Winter
# A Good Life
# The Young Girl's Song
# Happines

External links

* [http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/sound_insights/Shostakovich/art_folk_shostakovich.html Carnegie Hall Site]
* [http://www.drbilllong.com/CurrentEventsVI/Dmitri.html Info on drbilllong.com]
* [http://www.geocities.com/kuala_bear/articles/Fay.html Info on geocities.com]

Further reading

*Wilson, Elizabeth (1994). "Shostakovich: A Life Remembered". Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04465-1.


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