"Noch'" (ночь, Night) is a song by

Anton Rubinstein Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ran ...

. It appeared in German as Die Nacht ("Des Tages letztes Glühen"), a song for 2 voices & piano, Op. 48/7. The song became popular, with new English words by Sonny Miller as "Come Back My Love" (1941), in arrangement by Bernard Grün (sometimes mis-credited as "Green").Gramophone 1983 - Volume 60 - Page 919 In another Tauber recording, of Rubinstein's Come back my love (RO20508), the great tenor was in direct competition with an equally celebrated artist, John McCormack (

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DA1809). Harold Rosenthal felt that Tauber's version with orchestra was "warmer and more fluid", whereas McCormack, with the pianist Gerald Moore, was more "deliberately poised"."

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Richard Tauber Richard Tauber (16 May 1891, Linz – 8 January 1948, London) was an Austrian lyric tenor and film actor. He performed the tenor role in numerous operas, including ''Don Giovanni'' by Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. Early life Richard Tauber was b ...

* John McCormack (tenor) * Elena Obraztsova

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1941 songs {{1940s-song-stub

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