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Смерть и жизн ьпереносить. That streams from your full breast?<br />
Smert’ i zhisn’ perenosit’?<br />
Т а, что лю дям пом огает That joy in sweetest life,<br />
Ta, chto liudiam pomogaet<br />
Смерть и жизн ьпереносить. That streams from your full breast?<br />
Smert’ i zhisn’ perenosit’?<br />
Pauline Viardot<br />
Poem by Louis Pomey<br />
‘Indécision’ (Indecision) [CD 2 Track 4]<br />
(pub. 1878)<br />
FREDERICA VON STADE<br />
LONG AFTER she had retired from the stage and the concert platform,<br />
Viardot continued to sing at home. She would be joined by members of her<br />
family (her son Paul became a virtuoso violinist), and anyone who happened<br />
to be visiting. A song such as this would have been composed, and sung,<br />
somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The by-then elderly Pauline could easily conjure<br />
up the folly of youthful amours. A young girl who was torn between two lovers:<br />
what didn’t she know about that situation – she who had lived most of her life<br />
with one swain or another intruding on her life with her husband, the longsuffering<br />
Louis.<br />
Pour cette fois suis-je assez This time I am truly unhappy!<br />
malheureuse!<br />
De deux garçons je me sens I am in love with two boys!<br />
amoureuse!<br />
–77–
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