Where Are You My Brothers?
Studio album by
Released2003 (2003)
Genrewar song, patriotic song
Length41:03
LabelDelos Productions
Kvadro-Disc
ProducerTatyana Vinnitskaya

Where are You, my Brothers? is a 2003 album of Russian-language songs from World War II recorded by baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky and conductor Constantine Orbelian for Delos Productions. The album was released in Russia as Songs of the War Years (Песни военных лет). It was based on a concert at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. A video of the concert and 13 of the songs was released on the American VAI label. The repertoire of the concert is the very core of the Russian war song genre and the sound and video releases were accompanied by booklet essays and sung texts and translations.[1]

A follow-up concert on Red Square followed. The next year, 2005, Hvorostovsky took the programme on an official tour through Russia at the personal invitation of President Vladimir Putin.[2] Hvorostovsky's tour repertoire also included songs not released on the CD including by Dmitri Shostakovich.[3]

In Russia the album is known as Песни военных лет ("Pesni voennykh let").

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Somewhere Far Away
(Russian: Где-то далеко (Песня о далёкой родине), lit.'Gde-To Daleko (Pesnya O Dalekoy Rodine)')"
Robert RozhdestvenskyMikael Tariverdiev4:02
2."Dark Is the Night
(Russian: Тёмная ночь, lit.'Tiomnaia Noch')"
Vladimir Agatov ruNikita Bogoslovsky3:34
3."Unexpected Waltz
(Russian: Случайный вальс, lit.'Slutchaynyy Val's')"
Evgeni DolmatovskiMark Fradkin2:56
4."Where are you, my brothers?
(Russian: Где же вы теперь, друзья-однополчане, lit.'Gde zhe vy teper', druz'ya-odnopolchane')"
Aleksei Fatnyanov ruVasily Solovyov-Sedoi3:40
5."On a Nameless Hill
(Russian: На безымянной высоте, lit.'Na Bezymiannoy Vysote')"
Mikhail MatusovskyVeniamin Basner4:22
6."The Roads
(Russian: Дороги, lit.'Dorogi')"
Lev Oshanin ruAnatolii Novikov ru4:51
7."Soldiers are Coming
(Russian: Вот солдаты идут, lit.'Vot Soldaty Idut')"
Mikhail Lvovskii ruKirill Molchanov2:59
8."Cranes
(Russian: Журавли, lit.'Zhuravli')"
Rasul Gamzatov, transl. Naum Grebnev ruYan Frenkel4:16
9."In the Trenches
(Russian: В землянке, lit.'V Zemlianke')"
Aleksei Surkov ruKonstantin Listov3:02
10."The Sacred Stone
(Russian: Заветный камень, lit.'Zavetnyy Kamen')"
Aleksander Zharov ruMikhail Matusovsky4:36
11."Katyusha
(Russian: Катюша)"
Mikhail Isakovskii ruMatvey Blanter2:14
12."Cossacks in Berlin
(Russian: Казаки в Берлине, lit.'Kazaki v Berline')"
Tsezar Solodar ruDmitry Pokrass, Daniil Pokrass ru2:18
13."My Moscow
(Russian: Моя Москва, lit.'Moya Moskva')"
Mark Lisyanskii ru, Sergei Agranian ruIsaak Dunayevsky2:37
14."The Road to the Front
(Russian: Дорожка фронтовая (песенка фронтового шофёра), lit.'Dorozhka Frontovaia (Pesenka Frontovogo Shofiora)')"
Naum Labkovskii ru, Boris Laskin ruBoris Mokrousov2:17
15."On the Hills of Manchuria
(Russian: На сопках Маньчжурии)"
Aleksei Mashistov ruIlia Shatrov2:56
16."The Lonely Accordion
(Russian: Одинокая гармонь, lit.'Odinokaia Garmon'')"
Mikhail Isakovskii ruBoris Mokrousov3:08
17."The Last Battle
(Russian: Последний бой, lit.'Posledniy Boi')"
Mikhail NozhkinMikhail Nozhkin3:40

DVD

Russian Songs from the War Years

  • Soldiers Are Coming (K. Molchanov M. L’vovsky)
  • Dark is the Night (N. Bogoslovsky V. Agatov)
  • Unexpected Waltz (M. Fradkin Ye. Dolmatovsky)
  • The Roads (A. Novikov L. Oshanin)
  • On a Nameless Hill (V. Basner M. Matusovsky)
  • Somewhere Far Away (M. Tariverdiev R. Rozhdestvensky)
  • Katyusha (M. Blanter M. Isakovsky)
  • The Hills of Manchuria (I. Shatrov A. Mashistov)
  • The Sacred Stone (M. Matusovsky A. Zharov)
  • The Lonely Accordion (B. Mokrousov M. Isakovsky)
  • Cranes (Ya. Frenkel R. Gamzatov)
  • The Last Battle (M. Nozhkin)
  • My Moscow (I. Dunaevsky M. Lisiansky, S. Agaranian)

Concert Recorded at the State Kremlin Palace, Moscow on April 8, 2003. VAI.

References

  1. San Francisco Symphony playbill - Page 94 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - 2006 ""Somewhere Far Away," as Maya Pritsker tells us in her notes for Where Are You. My Brothers? — the recording of these songs by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. with Constantine Orbelian conducting the Moscow Chamber Orchestra"
  2. В 2005 ГОДУ ДМИТРИЙ ХВОРОСТОВСКИЙ ПРОВЁЛ ГАСТРОЛЬНЫЙ ТУР ПО РОССИИ С ПЕСНЯМИ ВОЕННЫХ ЛЕТ В ЧЕСТЬ 60-ЛЕТИЯ ПОБЕДЫ. In Russian
  3. "Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Fifty years of Russian Belcanto". 14 October 2012.
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