Uzhnik (Prisoner), GB 3.34, Vladimir Drozdoff.

Hanna Golodinskii, soprano Pavel Gintov, Piano Live recording Uzhnik (Prisoner), GB 3.34, Vladimir Drozdoff, 1882-1960. February 20, 2016 Prisoner, by Alexander Pushkin I'm sitting by bars in the damp blackened cell -- The juvenile eagle, who's bred by the jail, My mournful friend, with his wings stretching wide, Is picking at bloody food right by my side. He’s picking and looking at me through the bars, Like having a thought that is common to us, Like calling to me with a glance and a sight, And wanting to say, "Let us fly outside! We're free proud birds; it is time for the friends To fly to the white of the rock in a haze, To fly to the blue of the sea and the sky, Where evenly dwell only tempests ... and I!" Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, November, 1999 Edited by Dmitry Karshtedt, February, 2000 Hanna Golodinskii and Pavel Gintov have been premiered works by Vladimir Drozdoff in a number of New York concerts since 2015. Ms. Golodinskii is an Artist in Residence with The Drozdoff Society. The Drozdoff Society sponsors the Impromptu! Classical Music Recital Series at venues in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Society was formed for the purpose of preserving, promulgating, publishing, performing, and recording the compositions of Vladimir Drozdoff.