Notes and Editorial Reviews
The Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble was created in 1978 in Moscow mostly to raise through music cultural and patriotic feelings about the Red Army. A Russian proverb says "A fairy tale is a lie, but a song tells the truth." Though fairy tales have become rare in present-day Russia, folk tunes still form an integral part of daily life and the fairy tale inspired music of Rimsky-Korsakov's time is still heard in concert. Folk music of many cultures around the world sings of love and loss, of sadness and solace, of brave deeds as well as everyday problems. To this universal message the Russian sound is accompanied by the balalaika and the bayan (a large button-key accordion). Humor and dance can also be found here, as well as
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melancholic longing and heroic pathos. "Kalinka" and "Moscow Nights" captures brash power and deep emotions when sung by the rich voices of the Red Star Red Army Chorus. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Regimental Polka by Boris M. Terentiev
Performer:
Sergei Dzhemelinsky (Baritone),
Vladimir Deshko (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
Language: Russian
2.
Kalinka by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: Russian
3.
Symphony no 4 in D major, Op. 41 "Poem of the Komsomol Fighter": Meadowland by Lev Knipper
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: Russian
4.
Song of the Volga boatmen by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: Russian
5.
The sun set behind a mountain by Matvey Blanter
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: Russian
6.
Pine trees are rustling by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 34 Secs.
Language: Russian
7.
Kamarinskaya by Mikhail Glinka
Performer:
Valery Zazhigin (Balalaika)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1848; Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.
Language: Russian
8.
Brave Don Cossacks by Traditional
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 2 Minutes 27 Secs.
9.
Someone's horse is standing there by Traditional
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 10 Secs.
Language: Russian
10.
In the sunny meadow by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 2 Secs.
Language: Russian
11.
The Cliff by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 5 Minutes 16 Secs.
12.
Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57 - Flight of the bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Evgeny Grekhov (Bayan)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903; Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 1 Minutes 11 Secs.
13.
Dark Eyebrows by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
14.
Dubinushka "Song of the Volga" by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.
Language: Russian
15.
On the March by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
16.
Swallow [Armenian Folksong] by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Armenia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: Russian
17.
Wait for your soldier by Boris Mokrousov
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: Russian
18.
Dark Eyes by Anonymous
Performer:
Sergei Dzhemelinsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 4/1992
Venue: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Length: 3 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Russian
19.
A Life for the Tsar: Glory, Glory to the Great Nation by Mikhail Glinka
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Period: Romantic
Written: 1834-1836; Russia
20.
Happy Girl by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Armenia
21.
Suliko by Traditional
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Georgian Republic
Language: Russian
22.
Oh, You Rye by A. Dolukhanyan
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
Language: Russian
23.
Varshavianka by Traditional
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
24.
Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1: no 24 in A minor by Niccolò Paganini
Performer:
Valery Zazhigin (Balalaika)
Period: Romantic
Written: circa 1805; Italy
25.
Mephistopheles' song of the flea by Modest Mussorgsky
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1879; Russia
26.
A birch tree in the field by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
27.
Stenka Razin by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
28.
Across the valleys and the mountains by Traditional
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
29.
Motherland by Traditional
Performer:
Evgeny Belyaev (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
30.
Seven Sons-in-Law by Traditional
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
31.
It's good for us, soldiers by V. Akulenko
Performer:
Vyatcheslav Yantchik (Tenor),
Vladimir Deshko (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
32.
In the forest by Matvey Blanter
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
33.
Sports March by Matvey Blanter
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
34.
Midnight in Moscow by Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy
Performer:
Nikolai Nizienko (Bass)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Language: Russian
35.
Oh, You Nightingale by A. Novikov
Performer:
Sergei Dzhemelinsky (Baritone),
Vladimir Deshko (Tenor)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: USSR
Language: German
36.
Legend of the Twelve Robbers by Traditional
Performer:
Sergei Dzhemelinsky (Baritone)
Conductor:
Anatoly N. Bazhalkin
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra,
Red Star Red Army Chorus
Written: Russia
Language: Russian
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