Choruses a cappella by the Soviet Composers (2 CD)

CD 1

Mariane Koval (1906–1971)
1 Why Do You Bend Over the Waters (F.Tyutchev) 2.40
2 Leaves (F. Tyutchev) 4.47
3 People's Tears (F. Tyutchev) 2.01
4 Oh, Land, Our Lovely Land, from oratorio uYemelyan Pugachyov" (V. Kamensky) 4.l5
5 Tirtle-Dove (P. Komarov) 1.50
6 Lake Ilmen (M. Matousovsky) 4.21

Yuri Falik(1935–2009)
Estonian Water-Colours, for Women's Choir a Capella
7 The Poplar and the Bird (D. Vaarandi, transl. D. Samoilov) 1.24
8 Swans (D. Vaarandi, transl. L. Toom) 2.35
9 Along the Waters (Yu. Liiv, transl. L. Toom) 1.06
10 Face (Yu. Liiv, transl. L. Toom) 2.04
11 Clouds Flow (Yu. Liiv, transl. L. Toom) 2.47 Triptych Based on Poems by V. Soloukhin
12 The Sun Has Come Out from Beyond the Woods 1.22
13 At the Market 2.39
14 The Sun Goes Away 3.24

Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932)
Four Choruses a Capella Based on Poems by A. Voznesensky
15 Tbilisi Markets 0.44
16 The First Ice 1.37
17 Little Mountain Spring 0.33
18 Evening Song 3.07 Four Choruses Based on Poems by A. Tvardovsky
19 How Precious Is the Friend 1.23
20 The War Has Passed 1.39
21 I Was Killed Near Rzhev 2.10
22 To You, the Perished 3.11 "Eugene Onegin" Stanzas (A. Pushkin)
23 That Year Autumn Lingered Long 2.23
24 Here Along Tverskaya Street 1.19
25 Now Our Roads 2.24
26 My Goddesses 2.58
27 Why So Unfriendly 1.18
28 Blissful Is the Young in Youth 4.41 Chorus Poem Based on Prose by A. Pushkin
29 The Execution of Pugachyov 10.43

Total Time 77.25

Vladimir Sapozhnikov (b. 1945)
1 Musical Gift (“Glory”) 6.26

Nikolai Martynov (b. 1938)
Three Choruses Based on Poems by A. Pushkin
2 While Freedom's Flame within Us Lives 2.25
3 In the Depths of the Siberian Mines 2.29
4 Fathers Anchorites 3.35

Gennady Belov(b. 1939)
“The World of Labour”. A Suite a Capellator the Choir
5 Both Night and Day (N. Zabolotsky) 2.12
6 Hay Making Time (L. Vysheslavsky) 1.54
7 This Happiness (0. Shestinsky) 2.12
8 You Saw That (N.Aseev) 1.47

Boris Kravchenko (1929–1978)
Choruses Based on Poems by M. Lermontov
9 Moscow, Moscow 2.24
10 Dove-Coloured Peaks Go Red 1.41
11 Here Comes Autumn 2.49
12 Oh, Eternity, Eternity 4.00
13 The Two Giants 1.44
Choruses Based on Poems by Soviet Poets
14 Dark Blue Hussars (N. Aseev) 5.32
15 Mothers Pass (Ye. Yevtushenko) 5.28
16 The Forties (D. Samoilov) 5.10

Leonid Balai (1940–1990)
“Starry Islands”. A Vocal-Chorus Cycle Based on Poems by L. Kuklin
17 City Morning 3.59
18 Faces in the Street 1.25
19 Fresh Wind 3.14
20 Starry Islands 3.19

Valery Fadeev (b. 1946)
“The Fields' Expanse”. A Chorus Cycle Based on Poems by M. Dudin
21 Flax Flowers 3.00
22 Fields' Expanse 1.58
23 Calm Is the River 2.02
24 Cranes' Sadness 2.52
25 Here Comes Spring 1.53

Total Time 75.30