Brandenburg Historica announces our latest release, in commemoration of the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the Coronation of Tsar Mikhail I Feodorovich Romanov in 1613:

God Save the Tsar: Military Band Music of Imperial Russia in Archival Recordings, 1900-1912

This brand new CD presents the authentic military and patriotic music of the lost world of Tsarist Russia, performed between 1900 and 1912 by the bands of the Russian Imperial Army and other musicians of the period. Prominently featured are the regimental marches of elite units of the Russian Imperial Guard, classic parade marches of the Russian Empire and historic military band pieces from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Also presented are instrumental AND vocal versions of the Russian Imperial Anthem God Save the Tsar [Bozhe Tsarya Khranii], descriptive scenes depicting the Russian Imperial Army in battle and on the march, a rare parade piece written especially for the twenty-fourth birthday of the future Tsar Nicholas II while he was still heir to the throne, Russian soldiers' songs of the period and many other historic musical treasures.

The CD includes TWENTY-FIVE tracks with over SEVENTY minutes of material, and features a lavish 36-page booklet (illustrated in color) presenting a detailed history of military music in Imperial Russia, notes on the featured musical selections and a discussion of the reign of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.

Featured Selections Include:

1. March of the Life-Guard Preobrazhenskii Regiment (Trad. -Haase)

2. God Save the Tsar – Imperial Russian Anthem (Lvov)

3. March from the Opera ‘A Life for the Tsar’ (Glinka)

4. March of the Life-Guard Horse Regiment (Dörfeldt)

5. March of the Life-Guard Izmailovskii Regiment (Trad.)

6. March of the Life-Guard Atamanskii Regiment (GD Olga Nikolaevna)

7. March of the Guard Équipage (Donizetti)

8. Grenaderskii March (Unknown)

9. Reminiscences of Kushka – March and Soldiers’ Song (Ruzhek)

10. On Campaign – March with Singing and Whistling (Borozdiuk)

11. Little Russian March (Volshevskii)

12. The Action at Poltava – Soldier’s Song

13. Napoleon in Moscow - Jubilee March (Shmelev)

14. March of the Yegerskii Regiments (Trad.)

15. On the March – March (Chermak)

16. March of the 17th Chernigovskii Hussar Regiment (Shorf)

17. Waves of the Amur - Waltz (Kyuss)

18. The Varyag and the Koreëts - March (Trauüt)

19. On The Hills of Manchuria - Waltz (Shatrov)

20. Infantry Attack - Sound Picture (Rossini-Widder-Borozdiuk, arr.)

21. Longing for the Motherland – March (Kroup)

22. March of the Russian Volunteers (Hermann)

23. Mazurka from the Opera ‘A Life for the Tsar’ (Glinka)

24. Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich March of 6 May 1892 (Varlikh)

25. God Save the Tsar – Imperial Russian Anthem (Lvov-Zhukovskii)

Featured Performers Include:

Band of the Life-Guard Horse Regiment, St. Petersburg

Imperial Court Wind Orchestra, St. Petersburg

Band of the 1st Sumskii Hussar Regiment, Moscow

Band of the 1st Life-Guard Artillery Brigade, Moscow

Band of the Life-Guard Volynskii Regiment, Warsaw

Band of the Life-Guard Litovskii Regiment, Warsaw

Band of the 106th Ufimskii Infantry Regiment, Vilna

Band of the 108th Saratovskii Infantry Regiment, Vilna

Imperial Mariinskii Opera Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg

And many others...

Total Time: 70:40

ASIN: B00D8G4QF8