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Loneliness

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Art song performed by Ukrainian mezzo Renata Babak

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Oh! heart of mine tell me why art so loudly beating

so anxious for peace art thou yearning?

Why should this terror at night o'er me steal?

closing of doors in the distance resounding?

Soon will the flickering lamp be extinct...

Ah! my God! Fearful and dark is my soul!

Who is it calls to me secretly whisp'ring, who seeks to enter?...

No, my chamber is empty, silence around, save midnight striking afar...

Anguish of loneliness, dreadful despair!

Words by Apukhtin
English version by Edward Agate.

Painting by Levitan

Music by Rachmaninov

Orpheus and Lyra