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• A nostalgia-inspiring survey drawn from the extensive bodyof popular Russian WWII-era songs, this album is the sequelto two all-time favorite Delos titles Where Are You, MyBrothers and Moscow Nights.• These sentimental, melancholic, and passionate songs havea strong global appeal, expressing as they do the universalthemes and feelings common to soldiers the world over.• Operatic superstar baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky deliversthese musical mainstays of Russian culture with relaxedclassical technique and the kind of refined, yet soulfuland deeply affecting emotional impact that have made hisconcerts of these pieces wildly popular all across Russia andaround the world.• Constantine Orbelian leads the superb Novaya OperaOrchestra and the renowned Ministry of Internal AffairsChorus - with flavorful idiomatic touches from theunique Style of Five Ensemble of authentic Russian folk instruments. Album Tracks 1. 01. Goryachii Sneg (Hot Snow) 2. 02. Zhdi Menya (Wait for Me) 3. 03. Mother's Arioso from the Nam Nuzhen Mir (We Need Peace) 4. 04. Kak Sluzil Soldat (The Soldier Served) 5. 05. Maya Lubimaya (My Beloved Girl) 6. 06. Alyosha 7. 07. Minuti Tishiny (Moments of Silence) 8. 08. Dunai Goluboi (The Danube Is Blue) 9. 09. Ballada O Soldateh (Ballad of a Soldier) 10. 10. Zhdi Menya (Wait for Me) 11. 11. Chernoglazaya Kazachka (Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl) 12. 12. Oganyok (Glowing Little Light) 13. 13. Solovyi (Nightingales) 14. 14. Pushki Molchat Dalnoboinye (Long-Range Cannons Are Silent) 15. 15. V Lesu Prifrontovom (In the Woods Near the Front) 16. 16. Ekhal Ya Iz Berlina (On My Way from Berlin)
