“Judgment of the Secret Speechless Thoughts”
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Leonid Kharitonov – “Judgment of the Secret Speechless Thoughts”
Shakespeare’s sonnet No. 30, Music – D. Kobalevsky.
The video performance is from the television movie “Leonid Kharitonov, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Sings”, 1974, TeleFonda (TF) archive.
Attention: This video has English subtitles!
Lyrics:
Sonnet No. 30
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.
This would have to be my favourite song from Leonid !
What’s a voice will be treasured forever!
Listening to this monumentous voice all the way from Australia!