Red Army Choir
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Farewell of Slavianka
O field, my field
We are the red cavalry
There, far away, beyond the river
The Sacred War
There march the soldiers
In the forest by the combat-line
The sun set beyond the river
Soldiers' Chorus from The Decembrists
Song of the Volga Boatmen (Ey ukhnem)
Troika
The Cliff
Hey, there's the village
The Volga Burlacks' Song
Dark Eyes (Ochi chernye)
The Brave Lads of the Don
On the Road (A Soldier's Song)
Moscow Nights

The songs recorded by the Red Army Choir for this compact disc fall into four groups. The first consists of old soldiers' songs (Farewell of Slavianka, The Brave Lads of the Don, soldiers' Chorus from the opera The Decembrists). The second includes songs of the Civil War (O field, my field, We are the red cavalry and There, far away, beyond the river) and the third songs of what is