Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

In Chapter 4, Ivan is accompanied through Moscow by music from Act 3, Scene 1 of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, based on the novel by Pushkin. This is a ballroom scene, in which Onegin meets Prince Gremin, who has married Tatyana, with whom Onegin previously flirted. Below you can hear RealAudio clips of the music Ivan hears as he chases Woland.

1. Polonaise (Act 3, Scene 1)

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Performed by the Bolshoi Theater
dir. Boris Khiakin

2. Gremin's Aria: Liubvi vse vozrasty pokorny (Act 3, Scene 1)

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Performed by the Bolshoi Theater
dir. Boris Khaikin
Prince Gremin is sung by Ivan Petrov

"Onegin, I will not conceal it:
I love Tatyana madly.
My life flowed on tiresome;
She appeared and lit up
Like a ray of sunshine in the rain
My life, my youth, my happiness."