Sergei Lemeshev

This is another famous aria from Sadko. By the time most of Lemeshev’s recordings were made, he had only one fully functioning lung.

Do not count the diamonds in caves of stone. Do not count the pearls in the southern sea, of distant India so full of wonders. There is a wondrous stone, a ruby set in the warm sea; and on that stone there is a Phoenix, a bird with the face of a maiden, who keeps singing songs of paradise so sweetly, scattering her feathers and covering the sea. Whoever hears this bird will forget everything. Do not count the diamonds in caves of stone. Do not count the pearls in the southern sea.

Axé.


3 thoughts on “Sergei Lemeshev

  1. There seems to be a revival of interest in orientalism lately. I’m reading things about it in various literary journals.

  2. That’s very interesting. It is a perspective that could provide new and more effective insights into global dimensions and approaches in science and health that might have been forgotten in a global society dominated, in some areas, by excessive pragmatic “hypertechnological” views.

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