Ф.Шаляпин Вчера/ Romance

Фёдор Шаляпин. Вчера мы встретились (С.Рахманинов - Я.Полонский), соч. 26 № 13. 1906 год. Feodor Shaliapin. We Have Met Yesterday. Russian Romance ( - ). , . Recorded in1906. Yesterday we met she stopped, I did too. . . We gazed into one another’s eyes. . . O God! How she has changed, the fire in her eyes has died! And the colour has faded from her cheeks.. I looked at her for a long time, silent and stern. Holding her hand out to me the poor girl smiled, I wanted to speak, but she bade me say nothing, for God’s sake, and immediately turned away, and knit her brow, and withdrew her hand, and said: “Farewell, goodbye!“ I wanted to say: Farewell as we part forever, my lost but dear one!