The best of the Red Army Choir [CD]

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Title:

Corporate Author:

Ansamblʹ pesni i pli͡aski Sovetskoĭ Armii, singer.

Added Author:

Aleksandrov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vasilʹevich), 1883-1946. Gimn Sovetskogo Soi͡uza.

Publication Date:

2002

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

General Note:

Compact discs.

A.V. Aleksandrov is mentioned in the introduction and also wrote the National anthem of the USSR and arranged several of the songs.

Contains Russian folk songs, songs of the Revolution and Civil War and songs of World War II.

Program notes in English, inserted.

Performers:

Red Army Choir ; V. Fedorov, B. Alexandrov, I. Agafonnikov, Y. Petrov, A. Maltsev, K. Vinogradov, E. Misailov, N. Mikhailov, E. Pitianko, V. Korobko, V. Samsonenko, conductors.

Contents:

Disc one. Kalinka / trad. Russian song (4:28) -- Partisan's song / civil war song (2:49) -- Souliko / trad. Georgian song (4:47) -- Korobelniki / trad. popular Russian song (4:49) -- On the road : a soldier's song / B. Alexandrov, V. Rojdestvenski (3:01) -- My country / B. Alexandrov (3:34) -- The Red Army is the strongest : civil war song / S. Pokrass, P. Grigoriev (Gorine) (2:41) -- Moscow nights : midnight in Moscow / V. Soloviev-Sedoi, M. Matrousovski (3:50) -- Along Peterskaia Street / trad. Russian song (2:24) -- Smuglianka / A. Novikov, Y. Chvedov (3:19) -- Troika galop / trad. Russian song (2:44) -- Ah Nastassia / trad. Russian song (3:36) -- Echelon's song : Red Guard song / A. Alexandrov, O. Kolitchev (3:02) -- My army / A. Abramov, R. Plaksine (3:17) -- Civil war songs. The Red Cavalry / D. Pokrass ; Beyond the river / trad. ; Hello, on the way / trad. (5:50) -- Bella ciao : Italian partisan's song / trad.

Disc two. National anthem of the USSR / A. Alexandrov, S. Mikhalkov, G. El-Reguistan (3:43) -- Oh fields, my fields : song of the Plains / I. Knipper, V. Goussev (3:03) -- The cliff / trad. Russian song (6:31) -- The Cossacks / M. Blanter, E. Dolmatovski, V. Lougovskoi (2:05) -- In the Central Steppes / popular Russian song (5:50) -- Gandzia / trad. Ukranian song (2:38) -- Cossack's song (excerpt from the opera "The Virgin Earth") / I. Dzerjinski (1:55) -- The roads / A. Novikov, L. Ochanine (5:35) -- Song of the Volga boatmen / trad. Russian song (3:47) -- Dark eyes : fantasia on a theme of old Russian song / Russian trad. (4:35) -- Let's go (from the film "Maxime Perepelitsa") / V. Soloviev-Sedoi, M. Doudine (3:20) -- The birch tree / trad. Russian song (3:07) -- The road song / M. Glinka, N. Koukolnik (1:58) -- The samovars / A. Novikov, S. Alimov (2:30) -- Varchavianka : revolutionary song / V. Sventsitski (3:41) -- Slavery and suffering / trad. revolutionary song (4:15).

Subject Term:

Choruses, Secular (Men's voices) with instrumental ensemble.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Russia -- Songs and music.

National songs -- Russia.

Folk songs -- Russia.

Geographic Term:

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Songs and music.

Russia (Federation) -- Songs and music.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Songs.