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The band, under their English-language band name Genghis Khan, released a version of the song with English lyrics entitled "Moscow" in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [1] Australia's Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics, and the single was issued locally in a die-cut ...
Swedish pianist Jan Johansson recorded a jazz version of the song for his 1967 album Jazz på ryska. This version was titled "Kvällar i Moskvas Förstäder" which translates to "Evenings in Moscow's suburbs". [6] A version of the song was recorded by James Last and appears on his Russland zwischen Tag und Nacht album. [7]
"My Moscow", [a] also known as "My Dear Capital", [b] is the municipal anthem of the Russian capital of Moscow, officially adopted in 1995. The music was composed in 1941 by Isaak Dunayevsky and the lyrics were written by Sergey Agranyan and Mark Lisyansky. Singer Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya was the first person to perform this song. [1]
This article lists songs about Moscow, which are either set there or named after a location or feature of the city.As some songs are written without lyrics, the following list arrange them not by language, instead, the list is arranged by the song's release country or by the base of its singers, both of which designates the song's targeted audience.
An instrumental variant of the song was featured in the 2008 Moscow Victory Day Parade, celebrating the triumph of Russia over Nazi Germany. [3] In each parade, the song has been played during the infantry column precession. [4]
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The original 1945 version is triumphal in tune, with its brass fanfares and ecstatic chords extended upward with the aid of trumpets, as part of the V-E Day celebrations. That arrangement by A. Alexandrov is very much in the tradition of final choruses in 19th-century Italian grand opera, and shows how he originally envisaged this composition.
The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" [a] is the national anthem of Russia.It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem. [3]