The Dream, Op. 8 No. 5

B major — a fourth below Rachmaninoff's original — bringing this song into comfortable reach for baritones, basses, mezzos, and contraltos who have had to work around the published key. Cleanly engraved and generously spaced so it reads at speed, with the Russian text only. For the pianist who accompanies voice occasionally and would rather not transpose at sight, the key is already on the page. An early Rachmaninoff romance on Pleshcheyev's translation of Heine, and one of his most inward: a short, aching recollection of a lost homeland.

Instruments: Voice · Piano