D. Shostakovich; From Jewish Folk Poetry NO.8, BARK: Rahmqvist, Vestergaard, Szabova, Okrusko
BARK ensemble
D. Shostakovich; From Jewish Folk Poetry, No. 8 "Winter"
Carl Rahmqvist, tenor
Trine Elmelund Vestergaard, soprano
Lucie Szabova, mezzo - soprano
Nadia Okrusko, piano
BARK is a Copenhagen based ensemble
"My Sheyndl is lying on the bed,
with a sick child.
There is not a branch to warm the cottage,
and the wind howls around the walls.
Ah ...
The cold and the wind have returned,
There is no strength to suffer in silence.
Cry and weep, my children,
winter has returned.
Ah ..."