MOUSSORGSKY'S SONG9
Sung by TATIANA MAKUSHINA
(Soprano)
Trepak
Cradle Song
Serenade
Field-Marshal Death
IN these striking Songs and Dances of Death (poems by Kutuzov), the spectre comes in various guises -first to a peasant in the Trepak with a dance, and a song that lulls him to eternal sleep; in the Cradle Song the hand that takes the sick child from its mother and soothes it is Death's ; in the Serenade, the next piece, Death, disguised, pays court to a maiden, and finally reveals himself in his own dreadful shape.
In the last song Field-Marshal
Death reviews his ghostly troops after a battle.