Юрий Гуляев — «Я помню чудное мгновенье» (Глинка)

М. Глинка (сл. А. Пушкина). «Я помню чудное мгновенье» Запись с концерта Юрия Гуляева в Большом зале Московской консерватории (1978) Концертмейстер — Розалия Трохман Mikhail Glinka (lyrics by Alexander Pushkin). “Ya pomnu chuhdnoye mgnovenie“ (“A magic moment I remember...“) Performed by Yuri Gulyaev (baritone) and Rosalia Trokhman (piano) at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (1978). The lyrics translated into English: A magic moment I remember: I raised my eyes and you were there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that’s beautiful and rare. I pray to mute despair and anguish, To vain the pursuits world esteems, Long did I hear your soothing accents, Long did your features haunt my dreams. Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered The reveries that once were mine And I forgot your soothing accents, Your features gracefully divine. In dark days of enforced retirement I gazed upon grey sky above With no ideals to inspire me, No one to cry for, live for, love. Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again were there - A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that’s beautiful and rare. My heart is feeling celebration, I did remember it again - The aim to strive, the inspiration, And love, and life, and sweet heart pain.