• Tracks

• A nostalgia-inspiring survey drawn from the extensive body

of popular Russian WWII-era songs, this album is the sequel

to two all-time favorite Delos titles: Where Are You, My

Brothers and Moscow Nights.

• These sentimental, melancholic, and passionate songs have

a strong global appeal, expressing as they do the universal

themes and feelings common to soldiers the world over.

• Operatic superstar baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky delivers

these musical mainstays of Russian culture with relaxed

classical technique and the kind of refined, yet soulful

and deeply affecting emotional impact that have made his

concerts of these pieces wildly popular all across Russia and

around the world.

• Constantine Orbelian leads the superb Novaya Opera

Orchestra and the renowned Ministry of Internal Affairs

Chorus - with flavorful idiomatic touches from the

unique Style of Five Ensemble of authentic Russian folk instruments.