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Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov Soviet Army Chorus & Band (1986)
This folk cd contains 17 tracks and runs 62min 16sec.
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1. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Song of youth (Dunayevsky) (02:16)
   A prolific composer of operettas, ballets, \n\nfilm music, orchestraland chamber \n\nworks, Isaak Dunayevsky was born in \n\n1900 and studied at the Kharkov \nCollege \nof Music. In 1937 he was \nelected \nPresident of the Union of \nSoviet \nComposers at
2. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - A Birch-Tree in a Field Did Stand (03:27)
   Soloist: I. Didenko\nBeryozonka is one of Russia's oldest folk \nsongs: Nobody pays attention to the \nbirch tree. I'll go to it, break offa twig, \nmake a whistle and play to myself\n
3. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Far Away (Nosov) (04:39)
   Soloist: E. Belayaev\nBorn in the Ural district in 1911, Georgi \nNosov, of peasant origin, became \ninterested in music only at the age of18 \nwhen the first radio was installed in his \nvillage. For the 20thanniversary of the \nOctober Revolution, he co
4. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Volga Boat Song (03:24)
   Soloist: A. Eizen\nEi Ukhnem is probably the most widely \nfamous of all Russian folk songs. It is a \nsong of old Russia: Along the banks of \nthe great river Volga, the bargemen \ntrudge, singing as they haulthe barge \nagainst the current.\n
5. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - You Are Always Beautiful (Mokrousov) (03:37)
   Soloist: A. Belayaev\nHappy or sad, my beloved, you are \nalways beautiful. Beautiful as a song, as \na Russian soul! though the northern lights \nare chill, with you it is warm. Our wedding \nday dawns soon. Happiness will be ours. \nYou will be my life'
6. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Along Peter's Street (03:08)
   Soloist: A. Sergeyev\nDown the broad street, driving a troika of \nhigh-spirited horses, drives the coachman \non the way to his beloved. She greets \nhim tenderly, and gives him wine. And \nnow, says the tipsycoachman, give me \na hearty kiss!\n
7. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Tipperary (Williams-Judge) (02:37)
   Soloist: K. Gerasimov\nIt's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary was \ncomposed by Harry J. Williams and \nmusic-hall entertainer Jack Judge in \n1912, but it was during World War I that \nit attained world-wide fame,first as a \npopular marching song of the Bri
8. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Ah, Lovely Night (04:06)
   Soloist: N. Polozkov\nHow shall I spend this beautiful night? \nasks this Russian folk song, My dear \none has left me and I am all alone.\n
9. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Kamarinskaya (03:37)
   Balalaika Soloist: E. Foektistov\nThis rollicking dance is a Russian folk \nsong staple, in the repertoire of every \nRussian chorus and folk dance \ncompany. As the most typical of Russian \nfolk instruments,the balalaika is the ideal \nsolo interpreter,
10. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Annie Laurie (Scottish Folk Song) (04:36)
    Soloist: E. Belayaev\nThe beloved folk song Annie Laurie, filled \nwith its own quaintly Scottish \nregionalisms, gets further coloration as\nsung here with richly Russian accents by \ntenor Blayaev and the full Soviet Army \nChorus.\n
11. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Song of the plains (Meadowlands) (Gusev-Knipper) (03:13)
    Soviet soldiers ride through the green \nplains of their beloved land, singing \njoyfully. All is peaceful, and he people \nwork happily for their homeland's future\n
12. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Kalinka (04:15)
    Soloist: E. Belayaev\nMake me crouch beneath the green \npine tree. Do not whisper above me, pine \ntree; let me deam of my beloved.\n
13. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Bandura (04:39)
    Soloists: I. Savchuk and V. Fedorov\nIn this Ukranian folk song, thesinger \npraises his beloved as he strums his \nbandura (a Ukranian three-stringed, lute-\nlike folk instrument). Day brings him no \njoyand night no repose, for his love is \nunrequited.
14. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Oh, no, John! (02:02)
    The long-cherished old English song is \nabout the maiden who answersNom \nJohn, no! to all her lover's pleas to marry \nhim. When at last he concludes that all \nhis efforts are unavailing and will never \\nobtain her consent, he asks her, \nMadam, since
15. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Snow Flakes (02:45)
    Soloist: I. Didenko\nThis well-known folk song describes a \nyoung girl walking in the snow. A young \nman, following her, cries out in atorment \nof desire, Wait a while, stand still, my \npretty one, andlet me look at you! Your \nbeauty has driven me cr
16. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Ukrainian Poem (Alexandrov) (06:15)
    Soloist: A. Sergeyev\nThis rousing, longer work recounts how \nin 1942 all of the Ukraine was under \nGerman occupation. Ancient Kiev and\nthe Dnieper River were cut off from the \nrest of the country. Thenthe Soviet Army \nattacked and, driving off the e
17. Soviet Army Chorus and Band conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov - Soldiers' Chorus from The Decembrists (Shaporin) (03:30)
    This is from the opera The \nDecembrists, first performed at the \nBolshoi Theater in December, 1953. The \ntitle alludes to the first Russian \nrevolutionaries who, on December 14, \n1825, initiated an unsuccessful uprising \nagainst the Czarist regime.