(2/25) Song / Pieseň

2. Song / Pieseň

Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský: Songs (2014)

Pavol Breslik: Tenor

Róbert Pechanec: Piano

Compose by Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský

Slzy a úsmevy, Op.25 (Tears and Smiles, Op. 25)

1. Prsteň ("A ring") to a text by Janko Jesenský

2. Pieseň ("A song") Ivan Krasko

3. Vesper Dominicae - Ivan Krasko

4. Letí Havran, Letí ("Fly crow, fly") Svetozár Hurban Vajanský

5. Nôžka ("The little leg") Svetozár Hurban Vajanský

6. Uspávanka ("Lullaby") from the publication Nový Nápev Na Prostonárodné Slová

7. Keď Na Deň Zvoniť Mali ("When in the morning rings the bell") Ivan Krasko

8. Magdaléna - Vladimír Roy

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Pieseň

Slová:  Ivan Krasko

Tak tíško dvíha mesiac biele čelo

nad vrcholami hôrnych balvanov!

Hlava mi hučí mysľou nezvanou

o zlostne, a zlostne by sa usmiať chcelo!

Ó, hlava mi hučí mysľou nezvanou

a ťažko, a ťažko vonia rezeda...

...V záhrade známej iný usedá,

a veľký mesiac svieti z balvanov.

Tak ťažko rezeda, viem, ťažko vonia

a zmysly mámi v sladkej únave...

Ó, dôjde niekto v noci po tráve,

bo zlostné mysle zvonia hlavou, zvonia.

Zaiste dôjde, avšak smutný, váhave

za noci mesačnej a rosou po tráve...

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Song

Words: Ivan Krasko

The moon's white brow is rising silently

over the boulders and the mountain crests.

Thoughts in my head are buzzing without rest;

I try to smile angrily, angrily.

Unbidden thoughts are buzzing in my head

and heavy, heavy the reseda's scents;

in a garden known to me another sits,

and the huge moon is shining overhead.

So heavy, heavy the reseda's breath,

it drugs the senses in sweet weariness.

Someone will come tonight along the grass;

for thoughts ring, angrily ring in my head.

He'll come, and sadly, hesitantly pass

by moonlit night along the dewy grass.

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English translations of the Slovak lyrics: John Minahane

The lyrics are from the booklet of "Songs" CD.