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Russian Sleigh Ride CD   Buy it now!

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Artwork:  Randy Palmer

 Track Listing

 

 
Lakeside Pride Concert Band
Thomas Kowalczyk, Director
 
1. Festive Overture  Shostakovich
2. Midnight Sleighride Prokofiev
3-5. Suite in Minor Mode  Kabalevsky
6. Russian Christmas Music  Reed
 
Golosa, University of Chicago Russian Choir
Noel Taylor, Director
7. Chorni Voron (Black Raven) 

Traditional

8. R'abina (Rowan Tree) Traditional
9. Sbirays'a v Put' (Gather on the Path) Traditional
10. Shchedrik (Song of Good Cheer)  M. Leontovich
11. Pushkar' (the Cannonier) Traditional
12. Vanya, Razudala Golova (Hot-headed Vanya) Traditional
13. Oy Da N'e Vecher (Restless Night Song of Stepan Razin) Traditional
14. Prol'agala Put'-Dorozhka (There Lay a Pathway) Traditional
 
15. Overture to "The Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky
16. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Del Borgo
17. Harvesting the Fields of Russia Lucas
18. Berceuse and Finale from "Firebird Suite" Stravinsky
Recorded live at Northside College Preparatory School, Chicago, Illinois
November 21 and 23, 2002
Under the direction of Thomas Kowalczyk and guest conductor Nathan Voges, the band's more than 70 members will whisk you away on a Russian sleigh ride filled with wintry favorites.  

Highlights include Dmitri Shostakovich's "Festive Overture", Alfred Reed's epic "Russian Christmas Music", and "Harvesting the Fields of Russia" by Elena Roussanova Lucas.   Familiar works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky are also featured, complemented by the Golosa Choir's a cappella renderings of traditional Russian melodies.

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