Mandelstam Songs: for voice and piano

Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938) was one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, twice subjected to repression (1934, 1938), died in the concentration camp of the GULAG in Siberia. Contents: The Sound, Op. 13a No. 1, 1974; Mandelstam's Sketches, Op. 169, 2012: 1. I am not a child anymore, 2. Say no more!, 3. Yenisei; The Crimean Poems, Op. 188, 2017: 1. Insomnia, 2. Odysseus. Texts in Russian with English Transliterations and Translations provided. Dmitri N. Smirnov (b. 1948) Russian/British composer, Studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1967-1972 under Nikolai Sidelnikov, Yuri Kholopov and Edison Denisov. He also studied privately with Philip Herschkowitz, a pupil of both Berg and Webern. Since 1991 Smirnov has been resident of England.