✜ Song of troubled times <br />✜ Pesni Bezvremenya <br />✜ Chant pour une époque troublée <br />Église Russe orthodoxe - Alexander Blok (1880-1921) <br />Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998) <br />James Bowman (countertenor) <br />________________________✜________________________ <br />Here He is—Christ in chains and roses beyond the bars of my prison. <br />The Meek Lamb in white robes has come and gazes into the window of the prison. <br />In a simple frame, formed by the blue sky, his ikon gazes into the window. <br />A humble artist has formed the sky. <br />But the Face and the blue sky are one. <br />And everything is so close and yet so distant, that, standing next to it, you cannot reach it, <br />and you will not comprehend the blue Eye, until you yourself become like a path— <br />until you become just as empty, and lie down, trampled, in a lonely ravine, <br />until you forget about everything, and stop loving everything, <br />and fade away, like a dead seed of grain. <br />________________________✜________________________
