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Optina Pustyn Male Choir: Russia's Most Beautiful Songs

Song Name   Composer   Arranger
On Flute I Play my Sad Verses
Vivat Suite
Saintly Love   G. Sviridov   A. Semyonov
This is not a White Birch   Traditional   A. Sveshnikov
Hey, You, Wide Steppe   Traditional   A. Semyonov
The Little Cuckoo   Traditional   S. Zharov
A Winter Road   V. Shebalin   A. Chmyryov
The Waves Are Sleepy
My Lovely Rowan Tree   Traditional   A. Semyonov
The Volga Boat Men   Traditional   A. Sveshnikov
The Legend of the Twelve Robbers
Steppe, Endless Steppe    S. Sadovsky   A. Semyonov
The Lovely Night
In a Dark Wood    Traditional   A. Sveshnikov
The Little Bell    Traditional   A. Semyonov
Dignity
Song of Cherubs    D. S. Bortnjansky

The Optina Pustyn Male Choir consists of six to nine professional musicians trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The choir tours and has produced five CDs to date, but they are also part of the regular monastic choir at the Optina Pustyn Monastery in St. Petersburg. Singing in the tradition of the world famous Don Cossack Chorus directed by Sergei Jaroff the choir sings Russian traditional songs including favourites such as the 'Volga Boat Men' and the 'Legend of the Twelve Robbers' and others. Information in English, German, French and Spanish, plus complete lyrics in Russian with English translations.

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8328 00 1 CD $14.98   Male | Chorus | Russia | A Cappella | Russian a cappella