Red Army Chorus

The history of legendary Russian singing choir began in 1929. Since than it has been traveling all over the world and performing arts of Russian culture. Step by step, the choir has extended its team of the ballet part. They all have been cheered by audience all around the world (for example in Austria, Algeria, Great Britain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland etc.). In 2007, they are going to perform again in Kosice and Bratislava. It will be their first performance after more than 20 years since their last visit.

The strength of their show lies in world-known songs like “Kalinka”, “Donci-Molodci” etc. Alexander’s were the first who sung the song “Sojuz nerusimyj”, the anthem of Soviet Union. Along the Russian classical music you can hear Verdi’s hymn Immenso Jehova of Nabucco, Mosorskij’s “Raschodilas, razgujalas”, Meisn’s “Delilah” and many more. The choir survived many influences like Communism, Perestroika, wild Russian capitalism, difficult 90-ties, Saga of Putin and so on. Their interconnected emotions are expressed by their Russian professionalism. They have never used playback and emotionally they perform as the last one. Mit has been told who has never heard Alexander’s, cannot understand Russian spirit.

Discography

Moscow Nights

Russian Nation Anthem Happy Girl Moscow Night Suliko Oh, You Nightengale Oh, You Rye Twelve Robber Varshavianka Paganini Variations Song Of The Flea A Birch Tree Stood In The Meadow Stenka Razin Across The Valleys And The Mountains Motherland Seven Sons-In-Law It's Good For Us Soldiers In The Forest Sports March

The Red Army Choir was formed out of Moscow's Central Army Club in 1928. Under the name Red Army Song Ensemble, twelve soldier-performers - a vocal octet, a bayan player, 2 dancers, and a reciter - officially performed for the first time on October 12, 1928, at the Frunze Club under the direction of their conductor, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, a young music professor at the Moscow Conservatory. The ensemble grew to serve as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union's Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs here range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias popular music and patriotic songs.

8492 CD $15.95

Regimental Polka Meadowland Kalinka Volga Boat Song The Sun Set Behind a Mountain The swallow The Pine Trees Are Rustling Kamarinskaya The Brave Don Cossacks Wait For Your Soldier Ochi Chornye - Dark Eyes Someone's Horse Is Standing There In the Sunny Meadow Flight of the Bumblebee The Cliff Dark Eyebrows Dubinushka On the March

The Red Star Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble was created in 1978 in Moscow, mostly to raise the cultural level and maintain the battle-readiness of the strategic rocket forces and other elements of the Red Army. A Russian proverb says "A fairy tale is a lie, but a song tells the truth." Fairy tales have become rare in present-day Russia, but folk tunes still form an integral part of daily life. Accompanied by the balalaika and the bayan (a large button-key accordion), these songs tell of love and loss, of sadness and solace, of brave deeds and everyday problems. Humor and dance can be found here, as well as melancholic longing and heroic pathos. Some favorites of the 18 songs: "Regimental Polka," "Kalinka," "Volga Boat Song," "The Swallow," "The Brave Don Cossacks," "Wait For Your Soldier," "Ochi Chornye-Dark Eyes," "In The Sunny Meadow," "The Cliff," and "On The March." All accompanied. "Kalinka" beautifully captures the brash power and deep emotions of the Red Star Red Army Chorus.

Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble: Red Star

Patriotic Song Meadowland Regimental Polka Cossack's Dance Paganni Variations The Swallow Dark Eyes Russian Dance Volga Boat Song Kamarinskaya A Birch Tree Stood in the Meadow The Sun Set Behind a Mountain Sailor's Dance The Flight of the Bumble Bee Song of a Flea Happy Girl Seven Sons-in-Law Hopak Dance Moscow Nights Kalinka On The March

This concert, given by the magnificent Russian troupe, The Red Red Army Chorus And Dance Ensemble, was recorded at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow prior to a nationwide tour of the United States in the autumn of 1992. The 100-strong Ensemble was first formed within the USSR armed forces in 1977, performing concerts primarily for the army. Their repertoire ranges from popular folk tunes and songs of battle from all corners of the former Soviet Union to spectacular Cossack dancing and includes Glinka's Patriotic Song and Kamarinskaya, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight Of The Bumblebee, and folk songs Kalinka, Dark Eyes, A Birch Tree Stood In The Meadow, Happy Girl and Seven Sons-In-Law. All are performed with energy, enthusiasm and patriotic fervor.

7532 DVD $19.95

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Live In Paris

The Russian National Anthem Oh Fields My Fields (Song of the Plains) The Sacred War In The Sunny Clearing Kalinka The Cossack Dance We Sing To Thee On The Road (A Soldier's Song) Smuglianka A partisan's Song Along The Peterskaya Road Dark Eyes The Navy Dance The Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves The Bandit's Chorus Spanish Medley: Amapola/Valencia/Granada Zaporogue's Cossacks Excerpt from 'Boris Godounov' The March Of The Toreadors Nessun Dorma Di Quella Pira The Festival March Katioucha Moscow nights (Midnight In Moscow) Silent Night Jingle Bells

Since its humble beginnings in the first decade of Stalin's rule, to performing over 1500 concerts at the frontlines in WWII, bolstering the besieged Russian troops' resolve, to the international acclaim that has followed them since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Red Army Choir is arguably the world's leading and most visual choral/dance ensemble. "Live in Paris" is a stunning group of 25 (actually 27, with bonus tracks "Silent Night" and "Jingle Bells") pieces, from the testosterone-soaked "Russian National Anthem," "Oh Fields My Fields," "The Sacred War" (an apt anthem for a people who stopped the Nazi war machine in its bloody tracks), "Kalinka" and "On the Road" (A Soldier's Song); to dramatic and colorful dance numbers like "The Cossack Dance," "The Navy Dance" (where women first appear onstage), the high-kicking "Zaporoque's Cossacks" and "The Festival March" this is powerful, moving stuff throughout. Opera-quality Tenor and Baritone soloists, an orchestra that includes multiple balalaikas and accordions, and song selections like "Dark Eyes," "The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves," "The Bandit's Chorus," "The March of the Toreadors," "Katioucha" and "Moscow Nights;" these are the soul of heroic romanticism. The bottom line: "Live in Paris" is great entertainment on many levels!

7531 DVD $19.95

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