Александр Давыдов. Под чарующей лаской твоею. Слова и музыка Н. Зубова.
Alexander Davydov. Your Enchanting Tenderness. Old Russian Romance. Music and lyrics by N. Zubov.
The painter is É.Vernon.

Your enchanting tenderness
Makes my heart alive again,
The old dreams again i cherish,
Again i want to love and to suffer.

Ah! Give me oblivion with your kiss,
Heal the suffering heart,
May challenges fly away,
Take my life in the kiss.

I do not care the severe mind tells me ,
That you will stop loving me, you will betray me
I do not throw off the shackles of your charm:
I'm in the power of your beauty.

Ah! Give me oblivion with your kiss ...

And I am longing for the delight,
To drink the goblet to the bottom
If even for this beautiful moment
I now doomed to the grave.

Ah! Give me oblivion with your kiss...




Aleksander Davydov (1872 — 1944) - a Russian tenor. He made his debut in Tiflis and then performed in different provincial towns. In 1900—1914 he was a soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in Petersburg.He made his debut as Herman in " The Queen of Spades" by P.Tchaikovsky, and soon became famous in the Wagnerians parties. His repertoire included 85 roles in opera and 30 in operetta. Among the operatic roles were: Sadko (in the opera by N. Rimsky-Korsakov), Prince Sinodal in A. Rubinstein's "Demon" , Don José ("Carmen", G. Bizet), Lensky in "Evgene Onegin" by P.Tchaikovsky and Mozart ("Mozart and Salieri" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov). He toured many cities in the country and abroad. Because of starting deafness in 1914 the singer left an opera scene, but till 1924 continued concert activity, singing Russian, Gipsy and Neapolitan songs and romances. In 1924-1935 he lived in Paris working as a consulter at the Theatre of Russian opera. In 1934 Aleksander Davydov has become the director of F. Shaliapin's opera troupe. Having come back to Russia in 1935 he tought singing at the school belonging to Mariinsky Theatre.


Dear English-speaking friends! The translation of the lyrics is aproximative. I'll be glad to any remark.

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