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The Alexandrov Ensemble with Iosif Kobzon as soloist The Alexandrov Ensemble, Bielsko-Biala, 2006.Victor Sanin on the left, Dmitry Bykov on the right (soloists) The Alexandrov Ensemble (Russian: Ансамбль Александрова, romanized: Ansambl' Aleksandrova), commonly known as the Red Army Choir [1] in the West, is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces.
Song of the Soviet Army, or Invincible and Legendary (music: A. Alexandrov) (Alexandrov Ensemble, 1945). Victory ( Yuri Levitan 's broadcast, May 9, 1945, the day when the Soviet Union marked V-E Day , and the Red Army entered Prague .).
From 1934, he recorded songs. With V. Kandelaki he sang jazz, and he sang with the popular orchestra directed by B. Knushevitsky, and with Boris Alexandrov's Song and Dance Ensemble of All-Union Radio and band. His main repertoire was the songs of Soviet composers. From 1942 to 1967 he was a soloist of the All-Union Radio.
The arrangement of Kalinka which is traditionally performed by the Alexandrov Ensemble turned the frivolous song into an operatic aria. The first ensemble soloist to perform this was Pyotr Tverdokhlebov, but the first to earn the title of Mr. Kalinka was Viktor Nikitin at the Berlin peace concert in August 1948, where he sang three encores of ...
The song is the source of the nickname of the BM-8, BM-13, ... "Katyusha" is part of the repertoire of the Alexandrov Ensemble. [4] In other languages
The Choir performs in Warsaw, 2009. The Alexandrov Ensemble choir (established Moscow 1926) is the choir of the Alexandrov Ensemble.. It has for most of its history been a male-voice choir of tenors and basses, based in Moscow and directed and conducted by Alexander V. Alexandrov from 1926 to 1946, by his son Boris A. Alexandrov from 1946 to 1987, and by various directors up to the present.
The "Song of the Soviet Army", [a] also known as the "Song of the Russian Army" [b] or by the refrain's opening line "Invincible and Legendary", [c] is a Soviet patriotic song written during the end of World War II. Its performance has been done by numerous artists, especially by the Alexandrov Ensemble.
The song is commonly played by the Alexandrov Ensemble. ... which is known in the interpretation by the Israeli Gevatron ensemble. The music was used also as the ...