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The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Эхо поэта) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia. It consists of settings for high voice and piano of six poems by the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837), in their original language. It was published as his Op. 76. A typical performance lasts about 15 minutes. The songs are:

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  • The Poet's Echo (Titolo russo: Эхо поэта) è un ciclo di canzoni composto da Benjamin Britten (1913-76) nell'agosto 1965 durante una vacanza in visita all'Unione Sovietica, a Dilijan, Armenia. Consiste dell'adattamento per voce alta e pianoforte di sei poesie del poeta russo Aleksandr Puškin (1799 - 1837), in lingua originale. È stato pubblicato come Op. 76. Una esecuzione tipica dura circa 15 minuti. (it)
  • The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Эхо поэта) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia. It consists of settings for high voice and piano of six poems by the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837), in their original language. It was published as his Op. 76. A typical performance lasts about 15 minutes. The songs are: (en)
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  • The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Эхо поэта) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia. It consists of settings for high voice and piano of six poems by the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837), in their original language. It was published as his Op. 76. The cycle is dedicated to his Russian friends Galina Vishnevskaya ("Galya") (soprano) and her husband Mstislav Rostropovich ("Slava") (cellist, pianist and conductor). Britten had previously dedicated several compositions for cello to Rostropovich. He had wanted Vishnevskaya to sing the soprano part in the 1962 premiere of his War Requiem, but the authorities had refused her a visa to travel outside the Soviet Union. The Poet's Echo was first performed in public by the dedicatees at the Moscow Conservatoire on 2 December 1965, by which time the composer had returned to England. A typical performance lasts about 15 minutes. The songs are: 1. * "Эхо" ("Echo") 2. * "Я думал, сердце позабыло" ("My Heart") 3. * "Ангел" ("Angel") 4. * "Соловей и роза" ("The Nightingale and the Rose") 5. * "Эпиграмма" ("Epigram") 6. * "Стихи, сочинённые ночью во время" ("Lines Written During a Sleepless Night") Vishnevskaya has said that Britten "had succeeded in penetrating the very heart of the verse" – despite the fact that the composer had little Russian, and was working from a bilingual edition of Pushkin's poetry. She recalled a memorable evening in autumn 1965 when the tenor Peter Pears and Britten tried out the songs at the Pushkin House: "The room was cloaked in semi-darkness – only two candles burned. [...] The moment Ben [Britten] started to play the prelude [of "Lines Written During a Sleepless Night"], which he had written to suggest the ticking of a clock, Pushkin's clock began to strike midnight, and the twelve strokes chimed in synchrony with Ben's music. We all froze. I stopped breathing and felt my scalp prickle. Pushkin's portrait was looking straight at Ben. He was shaken and pale, but didn't stop playing." Pears confirmed the incident is his diary, though in somewhat drier terms: "Pushkin's clock joining in the song. It seemed to strike more than midnight, to go on all through the song, and afterwards we sat spell-bound". (en)
  • The Poet's Echo (Titolo russo: Эхо поэта) è un ciclo di canzoni composto da Benjamin Britten (1913-76) nell'agosto 1965 durante una vacanza in visita all'Unione Sovietica, a Dilijan, Armenia. Consiste dell'adattamento per voce alta e pianoforte di sei poesie del poeta russo Aleksandr Puškin (1799 - 1837), in lingua originale. È stato pubblicato come Op. 76. Una esecuzione tipica dura circa 15 minuti. (it)
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