Boris Alexandrov: Soviet Army Chorus and Band CD Track Listing

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Boris Alexandrov Soviet Army Chorus and Band
This folk cd contains 17 tracks and runs 62min 12sec.
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1. Boris Alexandrov - Song of Youth (02:16)
   A prolific composer of operettas, ballets, \nfilm music, orchestral and chamber \nworks, Isaak Dunayevsky was born in \n1900 and studied at the Kharkov College \nof Music. In 1937 he was elected \nPresident of the Union of Soviet \nComposers at Leningrad.
2. 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 off a twig, \nmake a whistle and play to myself\n
3. Boris Alexandrov - Far Away (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 of 18 \nwhen the first radio was installed in his \nvillage. For the 20th anniversary of the \nOctober Revolution, he
4. 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 haul the barge \nagainst the current.\n
5. Boris Alexandrov - You Are Always Beautiful (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. 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 tipsy coachman, give me \na hearty kiss!\n
7. Boris Alexandrov - Tipperary (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 Br
8. 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. 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. Boris Alexandrov - Annie Laurie (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. Boris Alexandrov - Song of the Plains (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. 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. Boris Alexandrov - Bandura (04:39)
    Soloists: I. Savchuk and V. Fedorov\nIn this Ukranian folk song, the singer \npraises his beloved as he strums his \nbandura (a Ukranian three-stringed, lute-\nlike folk instrument). Day brings him no \njoy and night no repose, for his love is \nunrequite
14. Boris Alexandrov - Oh No! John! (02:02)
    The long-cherished old English song is \nabout the maiden who answers Nom \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, sinc
15. 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 a torment \nof desire, Wait a while, stand still, my \npretty one, and let me look at you! Your \nbeauty has driven me
16. Boris Alexandrov - Ukranian Poem (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. Then the Soviet Army \nattacked and, driving off the
17. Boris Alexandrov - Soldier's Chorus from The Decembrists (03:26)
    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