Alexandrov Ensemble discography

DVDs

Facets">Facets Multi-Media">Facets: ''[Leningrad Cowboys]'' - ''[Total Balalaika Show]''

• B0007TKHS4 and B000E8RF24
• * Included are covers of: Happy Together, Bob Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's Door, Tom Jones' Delilah, ZZ Top's Gimme All Your Lovin' with accordions, Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama, Kalinka, Song of the Volga Boatmen, Dark Eyes, Polyushko Pole.
• * NB. The cover of Stairway to Heaven is missing from this DVD.

  Kultur">Kultur Video">Kultur: ''Soviet Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble''

• D1106.. B0013N3LIG Region 1 DVD.

1. Forward, On the Way or Let's Go
2. The Birch Tree
3. Under the Elm Tree, Under the Oak.
4. Kamarinskaya
5. The Golden Rye
6. Dance of the Soldiers
7. Listen
8. Stenka Razin soloist: A.T. Sergeev. Filmed on location.)
9. Meadowland
10. Down the Peterskaya Road
11. The Grey Cuckoo
12. Dance of the Cossacks
13. Song of the Volga Boatmen
14. The Girl Next Door
15. Kalinka
16. Lovely Moonlit Night
17. Dance of the Zaporozhye Cossacks
18. Forward, On the Way

    Silva America: ''The Alexandrov Red Army Choir Orchestra - Live in Paris''

• * Included are: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, Bandits' Chorus from Ernani, Spanish Medley: Amapola y Valencia y Granada, excerpt from Boris Godunov, March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Nessun Dorma from Turandot and Di Quella Pira from Il trovatore, Moscow Nights, Silent Night, Jingle Bells, Smuglianka and Kalinka.

  CDs

Amiga">Amiga (record label)">Amiga: ''Zur Edition''

• Analekta: ''The Red Army Chorus, the Best of the Original Ensemble'', AN28800

• Analekta: ''The Red Army Chorus'', ASIN: B001B5CS7Q

• Ariola: The Red Army Ensemble; Royal Albert Hall

Bella: ''Boris Alexandrov Ensemble & Russian State Choir'', ASIN: B00000AZLO

• Bellaphon: ''Russland, wie es singt und lacht'' 288.05.017

• BMG France">Bertelsmann Music Group">BMG France: ''Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge'' 74321423482

• Le Chant du Monde: ''Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge à Paris'', LDX274768

• :

1. The Birch Tree
2. Chant des Partisans
3. Cold Waves Lapping
4. Ukraine Poem
5. On the Way
6. Soldiers' Choir from Faust
7. Leaving Song
8. Polyushko Pole
9. The Grey Cuckoo
10. Song of Youth
11. The Neighbour
12. Along the Peterskaya Road
13. The Liberation Song

    The Eastern Front: ''Letters From the Front'', Front 003

1. Invasion: V. Molotov's speech upon Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
2. Svyaschennaya Voyna, or Sacred War. Alexandrov Ensemble
3. Letter 1.
4. Call for Defence.
5. In a Front Zone Forest.
6. Everything is For the Front.
7. Letter II.
8. Oh Roads.
9. Letter III.
10. Wait for Me.
11. Letter IV.
12. This is the Soviet Information Bureau....
13. Night Over Leningrad.
14. Two Maxims.
15. It was time to forget, inspired by Konstantin Simonov's poem Wait For Me, 1941.
16. Lizaveta.
17. Nothing bad can happen to me, inspired by Dark Night, originally sung by M. Bernes in the Soviet movie Two Soldiers, 1942..
18. Song of a Front Truck Driver.
19. Soldier's Father.
20. Volchovskaya Drinking Song.
21. The War Went On....
22. Song of the Soviet Army, or Invincible and Legendary .
23. Victory.

    EMI Angel">EMI Records">EMI Angel: ''Volga Boat Song. Soviet Army Chorus and Band'', CC30-9078. Out of print

• EMI">EMI Records">EMI: ''Soviet Army Chorus & Band'', CDC-7-47833-2 DIDX-1015

• :

1. Song of Youth
2. The Birch Tree
3. Far Away
4. Song of the Volga Boatmen
5. You Are Always Beautiful
6. Along Peterskaya Street
7. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
8. Ah Lovely Night
9. Kamarinskaya
10. Annie Laurie
11. Polyushko Pole
12. Kalinka
13. Bandura
14. Oh No John
15. Snowflakes
16. Ukrainian Poem
17. Soldiers' Chorus from The Decembrists

    [EMI Classics]: ''Red Army Ensemble'', 0946-3-92030-2-4

• :

1. Song of Youth
2. A Birch Tree
3. Far Away
4. You Are Always Beautiful
5. Kalinka
6. Along Peterskaya Street/Road
7. Bandura
8. Soldiers' Chorus
9. Beautiful Moonlit Night
10. Kamarinskaya
11. Annie Laurie
12. Black Eyebrows
13. Ukrainian Poem
14. Oh No John
15. Song of the Plains/Meadowland or Polyushko Pole
16. Snowflakes
17. Song of the Volga Boatmen
18. Nut-brown Maiden
19. The Little Bells
20. If I Had a Hammer
21. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
22. God Save the Queen

    EMI">EMI Records">EMI France: ''Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge'', 8334342

• .
• Included are: Kalinka, Lovely Moonlit Night, Along the Peterskaya Road, Kamarinskaya, You Are Always Beautiful, Cossack Dance, Ukrainian Poem, Song of Youth, The Birch Tree, Bandura, Oh No John, Song of the Volga Boatmen, Annie Laurie and the Soldiers' Chorus from The Decembrists.

  Ensemble Independent: ''70th Anniversary: The Alexandrov Red Army Chorus'', AA980001-2

• , Samovars, Along the Road to Peterskaya, Nightingales, Kalinka, Rough Sea Spray

  Forever Gold: ''The Red Army Choir'', FG317

• :

1. Kalinka
2. Beautiful Mum
3. The Birch Tree
4. Kalinouchka
5. Polyushko Pole
6. Listen
7. Doubinouchka
8. Chant des Partisans
9. Out of the Woods
10. Funeral Song

    HMV">His Master's Voice">HMV Classics: ''Red Army Favourites'', HMV5730452

• .

  Madacy">Madacy Entertainment">Madacy: ''Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble 1, Live'', ASIN: B00063QKEQ

• Madacy">Madacy Entertainment">Madacy: ''Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble 2, Live'', ASIN: B00063QCEO

• [Melodiya]: ''Sacred War'' (in Russian">Russian language">Russian), MELCD60-00938/1

1. Echelon song: Holy War or Svyaschennaya Voyna
2. Two Maxims
3. Oh the Road
4. Odessa: Love is Shrouded in Mist
5. In the Dugout or Zemlyanka
6. Sinij platochek
7. Tyomnaya noch'
8. Treasured Stone
9. Zhdi menya
10. Rustling Bryansk Forest
11. Artillery March
12. Goodbye City and Hut
13. Come On
14. Accidental Waltz
15. Song of the Front Driver
16. My Favourite
17. Song of a War Correspondent
18. In a Sunny Forest Clearing/Meadow
19. Nightingales
20. It's a Long Time Since We Weren't Home .

    [Melodiya]: ''Wartime Choruses, in memory of 9th May 1945'', MCD207, Out of print

• [Melodiya] Russian: ''50th Anniversary of Victory Day 1945'', RDCD00434

• [Melodiya] Military Archives Records: ''Red Army Ensemble Military Music'', MAR-RAM1967

• , Polyushka Pole, Evening in Moscow Suburbs, Song of Youth, USSR National Anthem, Let's Go!, Kalinka, Moonlight, Soldiers' chorus from the opera Faust, You Are Always Beautiful, Nightingales

  [Melodiya] Bomba: ''Best Lyric Songs'', BoMB033-204

• , I Took You Into the Tundra, unknown song, Let's Go!, Sky-Blue Eyes , You Are Always Beautiful, Our Friends, Before the Long Journey, Nightingale, Nut Brown Girl, Fatherland, Crane

  [Melodiya]: ''Eh Dorogi'', MELCD6000615

• , 5. Friends, 7. John Cornflower, 9. Treasured Stone, 12. Rustling Bryansk Forest, 17. Evening on the Roadstead, 19. Katyusha, Oh Roads or Eh Dorogi

  [Melodiya]: ''Kalinka, Popular Russian Songs'', ASIN: B000E1JO0W

• [Melodiya]: ''Moonlight Over Moscow'', ASIN: B000003ETF

• Olympia: ''Slavonic Farewell'', MKM 85

• , Soldier's song from the opera The Decembrists, The Sun has Disappeared Behind the Mountain, Nightingales, Field, Along the Valleys and Mountains, Doncy-guys, Rock, The Cossack Was Riding over Dunai, My Beloved One Lives, Dark Eyes, Twelve Robbers, The Bell is Ringing Monotonously, I Will Harness a Troika of Swift Steeds, Slavyanka Partying, Masculine Boldness Went on the Spree

  Olympia: ''Wartime Choruses: Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army'', ASIN: B000Y15TLU

• Silva Classics: ''The Best of the Red Army Choir'', SILKD6034

• Disk 1

1. Kalinka
2. Chant des Partisans
3. Suliko
4. Korobelniki
5. On the Road
6. My Country
7. The Red Army is the Strongest
8. Moscow Nights
9. Along Peterskaya Street/Road
10. Smuglianka
11. Troika
12. Ah Nastassia
13. Echelon Song
14. My Army
15. Civil War Songs
16. Bella Ciao

    Disk 2

17. National Anthem of the Soviet Union
18. Polyushko Pole,
19. The Cliff
20. The Cossacks
21. In the Central Steppes
22. Gandzia
23. Cossack Song
24. The Roads
25. Song of the Volga Boatmen
26. Dark Eyes
27. Let's Go
28. The Birch Tree
29. The Road Song
30. The Samovars
31. Varchavianka
32. Slavery and Suffering

    Silva Screen: Alexandrov Red Army Choir & Orchestra Live in Paris 0738572603823

• Soldore: ''Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge'', SOL620

• Supraphon">Supraphon Records">Supraphon: ''Alexandrovci, The A.S.D.E. in Prague'', SU5471-2 301

1. Guard Song
2. Long Live Our Land
3. I Loved You
4. I Look Up in the Sky
5. A Tiny Village I See
6. Peace Shield
7. The Oath
8. Mary: Romance
9. Winter Evening
10. Stenka Razin arr. B.A. Alexandrov
11. Far From the Town's Bustle
12. Rolling on to Prague
13. Green Grass
14. Uncle Nitwit
15. Song of the Mayor
16. Song of the Volga Boatmen
17. Sacred War or Svyaschennaya Voyna
18. Resistance Fighters Song
19. Troika
20. Song of Peace
21. Song of my Country
22. Polyushko Pole.

    [Teldec] Japan: ''Moscow Nights, Red Star Red Army Chorus'' WPCC-5349, Out of print

• [Teldec]: ''Kalinka, Red Star Red Army Chorus'', 090317730721

• [Victor Entertainment]: ''Russian Folk Songs'', VICP-41059-60

• , Little Bells, Rough Sea Spray, Along the Peterskaya Road

  [Victor Entertainment]: VICS-60006-10

• , Tanks, Men, Oh You Rye, Cantata Alexander Nevsky from My Homeland

  Unknown label: МК-МУЗЫКА MKM117

Audio cassettes

Ariola">Ariola Records">Ariola: ''The Red Army Ensemble, Royal Albert Hall'', 503 278

• * 1A: British National Anthem, Russian National Anthem, Polyushko Pole , Song of the Volga Boatmen, Festive Overture, My Motherland, Parade on Red Square.
• * 1B: Barinya, Live and Don't Be Sad, Above Clear Fields, Yesterday, Di quella pira from Il trovatore, La donna e mobile from Rigoletto , No John, Brave Soldiers.
• * 2A: Unharness Your Horses Oh Guys, Cossack Dance, Cold Waves Lapping, Quiet Quiet from Rigoletto, Korobeiniki, Serenade of the Stutterer .
• * 2B: Cossack Goes to the Danube, 'O Sole Mio, Amapola, Kalinka, Soldiers Friendship Dance, Auld Lang Syne, Kalinka.

  Fiesta: ''Song of Russia'', ASIN: B00006AWIT, Out of print

• VHS

Kultur">Kultur Video">Kultur: ''Soviet Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble''

• V1106.
• * Included are: On the Way, The Birch Tree, Kamarinskaya, Oh You Rye, Dance of the Seven Soldiers, Listen, Stenka Razin, Polyushko Pole, Along the Road to Peterskaya, Song of the Volga Boatmen The Grey Cuckoo, Dance of the Cossacks, Kalinka, Beautiful Moonlit Night, Cossack Dance.

  Prism Leisure Corporation: ''The Red Army Ensemble'', ''Video Special'', PLATV310

• ; 2. Cossack Goes to the Danube ; 3. Dance ; 4. Two-Eskimos-fighting dance; 5. Dance ; Brave Soldiers ; 7. Sailors' Dance; 8. Serenade of a Stutterer ; 9. Dance ; 10. Kalinka

  Singles and EPs

Singles (7inch, 45rpm)

Columbia">Columbia Records">Columbia: ''The Soviet Army Ensemble'', SEL1605

• [Melodiya]: ''The Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army'', 45C-001211-2

• EPs (45rpm)

Columbia">Columbia Records">Columbia: ''The Red Army Ensemble'', SEL1706

• [Radio DDR 1] (Gesellschaft für DSF): ''Auf gutem Weg Mit Guten Freunden'',"On track with my good friends". 4 30 033 4 30 033

• .
• * A1: Speech by Erich Mückenberger. Als Präsident Der Gesellschaft Für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft Überreiche Ich Ihnen In Anerkennung Ihrer Verdienste Um Unsere Herzenssache Diese Schallplatte. Erich Mückenberger was chairman of the German-Soviet Friendship Society 1978–1989, and this is his introduction to the recordings.
• * A2: Im Schönsten Wiesengrunde.
• * B1: Ich Freue Mich, Ihnen Mein Lied Zu Singen : not a song, but a spoken introduction by Nikitin to his performance of Kalinka.
• * B2: Kalinka.

  LPs

Artia: ''The Red Army Marches in Hi-Fi''

• Columbia">Columbia Records">Columbia: ''The Soviet Army Ensemble'' Volumes 1 & 2, 33C 1049 and 1050

• 10 inch LPs. Volume 1: 8 tracks. Side 1: Song of Youth, A Birch-tree in a field did stand, Far Away, You are always beautiful. Side 2: Kalinka, Along Peter's Street, Bandura, Soldier's Chorus. Volume 2: 9 tracks. Side 1: Black Eyebrows, Ukrainian Poem, Oh, no! John!, Over the Fields. Side 2: Volga Boat Song, Nut-brown Maiden, The Little Bells, Song of the Hammer, Tipperary.

  Columbia">Columbia Records">Columbia: ''The Red Army Ensemble'', SAX 2487 or 33CX 1844

• , Kamarinskaya, Ah Lovely Night, You Are Always Beautiful, Kalinka

  Columbia">Columbia Records">Columbia: ''The Red Army Ensemble Vol 2'', 33C1066

• EMI Angel">EMI Records">EMI Angel: ''The Red Army Ensemble Vol.2'', S36143. Out of print

• EMI Angel">EMI Records">EMI Angel HMV">His Master's Voice">HMV: ''The Soviet Army Ensemble'', SXLP30062

• , Far Away, Song of the Volga Boatmen, You Are Always Beautiful, Along Peterskaya Street, It's a Long Way to Tipperary

  [Melodiya]: ''The Ensemble's 50th Anniversary set of 2 LPs'', 33C60-11207-10. Out of print

• .

  [Melodiya]: ''50th Anniversary set of 2 LPs'', 33C20-08027-30, Out of print

• , Kalinka, Song of Youth, Crane, extract from Dubinushka

  [Melodiya]: ''60th Anniversary 2-LP set'', C60-08163-6, Out of print

• , Nightingale, Victory, Kalinka, Road of the Soldiers, Dark Eyes, Heart of the Sailor, Song of Russia, Crane, Catalina, Dance Dance, Let's Join the Army

  [Melodiya]: ''The Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble'' C-01235-6, Out of print

• [Melodiya]: ''Red Banner, the Soviet Army, Apeksans Androva''

• [Melodiya]: ''The Alexandrov Ensemble, Stenka Razin and other famous Russian folk songs'', OS 2140

• [Melodiya]: ''Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army'', CM 02873-4

• Saga: ''The Alexandrov Ensemble'', EROS8066

• Sounds Superb/Music For Pleasure: ''Cossack Patrol'', SPR 90022

• Printed 1966

  Sounds Superb/Music For Pleasure: ''The Red Army Choir Conducted by Alexandrov'', MFP 2089

• Supraphon">Supraphon Records">Supraphon: ''Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble'', SUA-ST51182 or SUA 11182, Out of print

• Vox: ''Red Army Ensemble''

• Vox: ''Red Army Ensemble'', STPL 515.090

• 78s

ASCH-Stinson: ''From Border to Border and The Young Birch Tree'', ASCH3011

• [Melodiya]: ''Soldier Always a Soldier'', 0-30

• Le Chant du Monde: ''Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge: Bandoura'', 614

• Le Chant du Monde: ''[Polyushko Pole]'' and ''Les Partisans'', 620

• Columbia: ''Song of the plains'' or ''[Polyushko Pole]'' Cornet solo: M.K.Lemechko, CL 6335. Disk C-10002

• Unknown label: ''Famous Red Army Songs'', 2-record set

• USSR, Aprelevsky Plant LPs: ''Cold Waves Lapping (Varyag)'', B-20753-4

• USSR, Aprelevsky Plant LPs: ''Down by Mother Volga'' and ''Storm Revel'', B- 9504-8

• ; B: Storm Revel

  USSR, Aprelevsky Plant LPs: ''You Will Come Up, Red Sun'' and ''Oh, Yes You, Kalinushka'', B- 8995-9

• ; B: Oh, Yes You, Kalinushka

  Other formats

[Magnetic tape]s

Unknown label: ''Soviet Army Chorus & Band''

• A Soviet Army Chorus & Band compilation of 1956 recordings was released in the 1960s, with a photo of soldiers on the box. It included Kalinka, You Are Always Beautiful, It's a Long Way to Tipperary and Polyushko Pole.

  EMI Angel">EMI Records">EMI Angel: ''The Red Army Ensemble Vol.2'', ZS-36143. Out of print

• , Lovely Moonlit Night, Kamarinskaya, Ah Lovely Night, You Are Always Beautiful, Kalinka, A Birch Tree in a Field Did Stand , Song of the Plains or Meadowland, Ukrainian Poem, Annie Laurie, Zaparozhtsi Dance