Night (Mussorgsky song)

"Night" (Ночь/Noch') is a Russian art song by composer Modest Mussorgsky. It is the composer's only full setting of a Pushkin verse, and one of only two Pushkin settings, along with the song "Magpie".^[1] The song exists in two versions, the original being written in 1864.^[2]

The text of the poem begins "Мой голос для тебя и ласковый и томный..", in English translation: "My voice for thee, my love, with languorous caresses, Disturbs the solemn peace the midnight dark possesses".^[3][4] The poem was also set by Anton Rubinstein.

Selected recordings

• "Noch'" Galina Vishnevskaya London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, recorded 26 August 1962
• Olga Borodina
• Joan Rodgers with Malcolm Martineau