Poems

51 min.

Poetry

Language Russian

Author Marina Tsvetaeva

Narrator Vera Pavlova

Description

An actor’s reading of poetry differs from poetry itself. An actor always works with a vocal interpretation of the material, while from the poet’s point of view the poems should “read themselves.” That is precisely the main difference of the anthology “the Big Four” of the Silver Age, compiled and read by Vera Pavlova, one of the leading poets of our time.

The collections by Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Pasternak, released by ContentMedia, are a project that is in a sense unique for our market. The emphasis is on a professional, “poetic” approach to reading poems, just as professional musical accompaniment, and an equally professional commentary on the poet’s work. The primary task for the publishers was to ensure that the form of presenting the material was completely subordinate to its content—and they managed to achieve that fully.

In the continuation collections, musical instruments also appear—harmonizing not with individual poems, but with the image of the poet as a whole. For Marina Tsvetaeva, the instrument that became such a partner was the accordion. The music does not interfere with perception; it is aimed exclusively at creating the necessary mood and concentrating the listener on the content of the poems. In addition, it highlights each poet’s special style and gives every poem an opportunity to be revealed anew. The afterword to Tsvetaeva’s poems was read by one of the best-known modern poets, Dmitry Vodennikov.

Contents:

01. You go, like me
02. Madness and good sense
03. Two poems from the cycle about Moscow
04. Two poems from the cycle “of Akhmatova”
05. I will win you back from all lands, from all heavens
06. I remember the first day, the newborn beastliness
07. Not an impostor— I came home
08. In the black sky words are written
09. I am a page for your pen
10. My day is unsteady and silly
11. At the first grandmother — four sons
12. Two hands, easily lowered
13. It smelled of England and of the sea
14. Yesterday I was looking in the eyes
15. Simple is my bearing
16. To Mayakovsky
17. Youth
18. Earthly signs
19. Hello! Not an arrow, not a stone
20. Soul
21. Phaedra. Complaint
22. To sneak in
23. Not yet— not to be!
24. Distances, versts, miles
25. From the native villages, villages!
26. Conversation with a genius
27. Longing for the homeland! Long ago
28. There are happy people and happy women
29. Newspaper readers
30. “The Poem of the End”. Excerpt
31. To my poems written so early
32. I like that you are sick not with me
33. In my enormous city—night
34. After a sleepless night, the body grows weak
35. Dear children
36. Afterword by Dmitry Vodennikov