Russian Lullabies

From a conference paper of mine, "While the Bear Sleeps: Lullabies in the Operas of Rimsky-Korsakov"



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            TABLE 2. A PARTIAL LIST OF MORE LULLABIES BY RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
    
    OPERA:
    
    Glinka: "Ruslan i Ljudmila" (1842), Act IV
    Kjui: "Vil'jam Ratklif" (1869), Act III, reh. no. 43, "I sam bliz Marii 
              usnul" 
         "Mlada" (1872, pub. 1911), Act I, "Spi, nash vitjaz' molodoj"
         "Saracin" (1898), Act II, reh, no. 43, "Spi, spokojno spi"
         "Kapitanskaja dochka" (1909), Act II, Scene IV, "Spi, moj milyj, spi, 
              moj nenagljadnyj"
    Rimskij-Korsakov: [click here]
    Chajkovskij: "Mazepa" (1883), Act III, no. 19 "Spi, mladenec moj 
                     prekrasnyj" 
                "Iolanta" (1891), Scene I, no. 3  "Spi, pust' angely krylami
                    navevajut sny"
    Arenskij: "Son na Vol'ge" (1888), Act IV, no. 25, Kolybel'naja pesnja : 
                 "Baju, baju, mil vnuchenochek" 
              "Nal i Damajanti" (1903), Act II, Kolybel'naja pesnja Damajanti : 
                  "Iz jugoli stenanij i slez")
    
    BALLET:
    
    Chajkovskij: "Shchelkunchik" (1891), Act I
    Stravinskij: "Zhar-ptica" (1910), Scene II, reh. no. 183, Kolybel'naja
    
    SONG:
    
    Glinka: Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Spi, moj angel, pochivaj" (N. Kukolnik),
               no. 5 from "Proshchanie s Peterburgom"
    Dargomyzhskij: Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Maljutka moj milyj" (M. Ja.)
                  Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Spi, maljutka moj prekrasnij" (A. 
                     Arsen'ev)
    Balakirev: Spi! : "Dnem naigravshis', nateshivshis'" (A. Khomjakov) 
                  (1904)
    Borodin: Spjashchaja knjazhna (Skazka) : "Spit, spit v lesu glukhom" (A.
                Borodin) (1867)
    Kjui: Berceuse : "Dors, mon fieux, dors", op. 44, no. 1 (J. Richepin) 
    Chajkovskij: Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Spi, ditja moe, spi, usni" (A.N. 
                    Majkov), op. 16, no.1 (1872, arr. pf. 1873) 
                Kolybel'naja pesnja v burju : "Akh! ujmis' ty, burja!" (A.N. 
                    Pleshcheev), op. 54, no. 10 (1883)
    Rimskij-Korsakov: Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Baju, bajushki-baju" (L. Mej), 
                         op. 2, no. 3 (1867) [see Bojarynja Vera Sheloga] 
    Musorgskij: Kolybel'naja : "Stonet rebenok", no. 1 from "Pesni i pljaski 
                   smerti" (A.A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov) (1875) 
                Kolybel'naja Eremushki : "Baju baj, baj, baju baj, baj" (N. 
                   Nekrasov) (1868)
                Spi, usni, krest'janskij syn (Kolybel'naja pesnja) : "Baju, 
                   baju milvnuchenochek", no. 16 from "Junye gody" (A.N. 
                   Ostrovskij) (1865) 
    Grechaninov: Kolybel'naja pesnja : "Spi, mladenec moj prekrasnyj" op. 1, 
                    no. 5 (M. Lermontov)
                Kolybel'naja vetrovaja : "Baju, baju, veju,veju nad golovkoju 
                    tvoeju" from "Tropinka" (S. Gorodeckij)
    
    CHORAL:
    
    Kjui: Kolybel'naja : "Baju, bajushki, baju", op. 88, no. 6
    
    CHAMBER MUSIC WITH PIANO: 
    
    Kjui: Berceuse, D, op. 56, no. 2 (vln., fl.) (1897)
         Berceuse: "Dor, petit gas", b, op. 50, no. 5 (vln.) (1893)
    
    PIANO:
    
    Kjui: Berceuse, Eb, op. 20, no. 8 (1882)
         Berceuse, G, op. 39, no. 4 (1886)
    Chajkovskij: Berceuse, Ab, op. 72, no. 2 (1893)
    Rimskij-Korsakov: Berceuse, from the collective "Paraphrases" (1878)
    Balakirev: Berceuse, Db (1901)
    

    Author: Lyle Neff, lneff@ucs.indiana.edu
    Last Updated: Nov. 8, 1995