High Steppers

This album is a wild ride and for me a mixed bag.

01 - They Are Valiant - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

02 - Under the Oak Tree - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

03 - Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches - Siegfried Landau- Music For Westchester Symphony Orchestra

04 - Credo - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

05 - Kalinka - Nicolai Tripolitoff- The Cossacks of the Volga

06 - Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Siegfried Köhler- Philharmonia Hungarica

07 - Meadowland - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

08 - Song of the Volta Boatmen - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

09 - Cortege, from Mlada - Richard Kapp- Philharmonia Hungarica

10 - Nightingale Song - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

11 - Legend of the 12 Robbers - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

12 - Nights of Moscow - Nicolai Tripolitoff- The Cossacks of the Volga

13 - Along the Volga - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

14 - Sabre Dance, from Gayenne - Sandor Rekai- Bregenz Festival Orchestra

This 1992 release is music only a Cossack could love?!? At least some of it—the tracks with overwhelmingly schmaltzy male chorus, sometimes overridden by fruity solo vocals.

Cossacks!

See you Monday.