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DISCID=ec0e9211
DTITLE=Boris Alexandrov / Soviet Army Chorus and Band
TTITLE0=Song of Youth
TTITLE1=A Birch-Tree in a Field Did Stand
TTITLE2=Far Away
TTITLE3=Volga Boat Song
TTITLE4=You Are Always Beautiful
TTITLE5=Along Peter's Street
TTITLE6=Tipperary
TTITLE7=Ah! Lovely Night
TTITLE8=Kamarinskaya
TTITLE9=Annie Laurie
TTITLE10=Song of the Plains
TTITLE11=Kalinka
TTITLE12=Bandura
TTITLE13=Oh No! John!
TTITLE14=Snow Flakes
TTITLE15=Ukranian Poem
TTITLE16=Soldier's Chorus from The Decembrists
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EXTT0=A prolific composer of operettas, ballets, \nfilm music, orchestr
EXTT0=al and chamber \nworks, Isaak Dunayevsky was born in \n1900 and st
EXTT0=udied at the Kharkov College \nof Music. In 1937 he was elected \n
EXTT0=President of the Union of Soviet \nComposers at Leningrad. He was
EXTT0= one of \nthe first composers in the USSR to use \njazz. He has wr
EXTT0=itten many patriotic and \nmass-songs of which the galvanic Song 
EXTT0=\nof Youth is one.\n
EXTT1=Soloist: I. Didenko\nBeryozonka is one of Russia's oldest folk \ns
EXTT1=ongs: Nobody pays attention to the \nbirch tree. I'll go to it, b
EXTT1=reak off a twig, \nmake a whistle and play to myself\n
EXTT2=Soloist: E. Belayaev\nBorn in the Ural district in 1911, Georgi \n
EXTT2=Nosov, of peasant origin, became \ninterested in music only at th
EXTT2=e age of 18 \nwhen the first radio was installed in his \nvillage.
EXTT2= For the 20th anniversary of the \nOctober Revolution, he compose
EXTT2=d a \nHymn to Lenin for chorus and orchestra.\n
EXTT3=Soloist: A. Eizen\nEi Ukhnem is probably the most widely \nfamous 
EXTT3=of all Russian folk songs. It is a \nsong of old Russia: Along th
EXTT3=e banks of \nthe great river Volga, the bargemen \ntrudge, singing
EXTT3= as they haul the barge \nagainst the current.\n
EXTT4=Soloist: A. Belayaev\nHappy or sad, my beloved, you are \nalways b
EXTT4=eautiful. Beautiful as a song, as \na Russian soul! though the no
EXTT4=rthern lights \nare chill, with you it is warm. Our wedding \nday 
EXTT4=dawns soon. Happiness will be ours. \nYou will be my life's compa
EXTT4=nion, my \nbeloved. Composer Boris Mokrousov, \nborn in Nizhny-Nov
EXTT4=ogrod in 1909, was a \\npupil of Miaskovsky.\n
EXTT5=Soloist: A. Sergeyev\nDown the broad street, driving a troika of 
EXTT5=\nhigh-spirited horses, drives the coachman \non the way to his be
EXTT5=loved. She greets \nhim tenderly, and gives him wine. And \nnow, s
EXTT5=ays the tipsy coachman, give me \na hearty kiss!\n
EXTT6=Soloist: K. Gerasimov\nIt's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary was \nco
EXTT6=mposed by Harry J. Williams and \nmusic-hall entertainer Jack Jud
EXTT6=ge in \n1912, but it was during World War I that \nit attained wor
EXTT6=ld-wide fame, first as a \npopular marching song of the British A
EXTT6=rmy \nand then as an expression of nostalgia \nfor home and loved 
EXTT6=ones left behind, by \\nEnglish-speaking troops on all the \nbattl
EXTT6=efronts.\n
EXTT7=Soloist: N. Polozkov\nHow shall I spend this beautiful night? \nas
EXTT7=ks this Russian folk song, My dear \none has left me and I am all
EXTT7= alone.\n
EXTT8=Balalaika Soloist: E. Foektistov\nThis rollicking dance is a Russ
EXTT8=ian folk \nsong staple, in the repertoire of every \nRussian choru
EXTT8=s and folk dance \ncompany. As the most typical of Russian \nfolk 
EXTT8=instruments, the balalaika is the ideal \nsolo interpreter, and t
EXTT8=is arrangement calls \nfor true virtuoso playing.\n
EXTT9=Soloist: E. Belayaev\nThe beloved folk song Annie Laurie, filled 
EXTT9=\nwith its own quaintly Scottish \nregionalisms, gets further colo
EXTT9=ration as \nsung here with richly Russian accents by \ntenor Blaya
EXTT9=ev and the full Soviet Army \nChorus.\n
EXTT10=Soviet soldiers ride through the green \nplains of their beloved 
EXTT10=land, singing \njoyfully. All is peaceful, and he people \nwork ha
EXTT10=ppily for their homeland's future\n
EXTT11=Soloist: E. Belayaev\nMake me crouch beneath the green \npine tree
EXTT11=. Do not whisper above me, pine \ntree; let me deam of my beloved
EXTT11=.\n
EXTT12=Soloists: I. Savchuk and V. Fedorov\nIn this Ukranian folk song, 
EXTT12=the singer \npraises his beloved as he strums his \nbandura (a Ukr
EXTT12=anian three-stringed, lute-\nlike folk instrument). Day brings hi
EXTT12=m no \njoy and night no repose, for his love is \nunrequited.\n
EXTT13=The long-cherished old English song is \nabout the maiden who ans
EXTT13=wers Nom \nJohn, no! to all her lover's pleas to marry \nhim. When
EXTT13= at last he concludes that all \nhis efforts are unavailing and w
EXTT13=ill never \\nobtain her consent, he asks her, \nMadam, since you a
EXTT13=re so cruel and \nscorn me so, if I am never to be your \nlover, M
EXTT13=adam, will you let me go? Tho \nwhich the lady replies, Oh, no Jo
EXTT13=hn, no \nJohn, no!\n
EXTT14=Soloist: I. Didenko\nThis well-known folk song describes a \nyoung
EXTT14= girl walking in the snow. A young \nman, following her, cries ou
EXTT14=t in a torment \nof desire, Wait a while, stand still, my \npretty
EXTT14= one, and let me look at you! Your \nbeauty has driven me crazy!\n
EXTT15=Soloist: A. Sergeyev\nThis rousing, longer work recounts how \nin 
EXTT15=1942 all of the Ukraine was under \nGerman occupation. Ancient Ki
EXTT15=ev and \nthe Dnieper River were cut off from the \nrest of the cou
EXTT15=ntry. Then the Soviet Army \nattacked and, driving off the enemy 
EXTT15=and \nliberating towns and villages, where they \nwere welcomed wi
EXTT15=th joy by the \npopulation. The music's composer Anatol \nAlexandr
EXTT15=ov, born in Moscow in 1888, \nwas a pupil of Taniev.\n
EXTT16=This is from the opera "The \nDecembrists", first performed at th
EXTT16=e \nBolshoi Theater in December, 1953. The \ntitle alludes to the 
EXTT16=first Russian \nrevolutionaries who, on December 14, \n1825, initi
EXTT16=ated an unsuccessful uprising \nagainst the Czarist regime. Yuri 
EXTT16=Shaporin, \nan outstanding Soviet composer, was \nborn in the Ukra
EXTT16=ine in 1899\n
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