Moscow Nights - Lovely Song

[sudsmaster]

In the course of researching the work of the "Trololo" man, I found this excellent video/music of the classic 1950's melody, "Moscow Nights". It is sung by tenor Vladimir Troshin with high res images (beautiful) of Moscow and its surroundings.

Enjoy!

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[spiceman1957]

Beautiful!

I hope I will be able to visit there one day.
John

 

[gansky1]

What beautiful pictures - and a beautiful voice. Russian is a beautiful language, does anyone here know the language or tried to learn it?

I would love to visit Moscow & Russia someday as well as India, China and Japan.

 

[chuffle]

Beautiful

I keep returning to this, as the song is so beautiful.

It's always been a dream of mine to visit Russia someday.

Thanks so much for posting this.

Joe

 

[sudsmaster]

Russian seems to be a very melodic language. I think it combines some of the best features of Italian with eastern languages.

I've never visited Russia, but perhaps after I retire I'll have the time if not the $$$ ;-).

I am picking up a few Russian words from studying the original Cyrillic along with the English translation of some of these songs. I can also recognize the name "Edward" in Russian (not that difficult). I'm thinking I might try to look up a Russian language class at a local college. I took Mandarin last year and I think Russian will be easier ;-).

 

[gansky1]

Rich, try the Russian lesson podcasts. You don't need an iPod to listen - just down load to your computer. I find them fascinating, not necessarily to learn the language but just have a familiarity with it. I'm currently studying Mandarin, have been for nearly a year now and love it. I have a very good instructor and have really enjoyed beginning to learn to write and study the characters in the last month or so.

Perhaps we should plan a group tour to Russia and Asia someday - Jon (jetcone) and I have talked about doing this too.

Zai jian!

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[sudsmaster]

Greg,

Thanks for the link. I listened to the first two lessons. Nice and brief, but I'll have to revisit them repeatedly as she speaks rather quickly and the usual spoken tempo seems to mask over the slower spoken words quite a bit. As with any new language, I guess it's a matter of knowing the slow version before you can speak the quick one.

Long ago someone told me that the main difficulty with Russian is that it's so idiosyncratic - which was explained to me as being full of idioms. Which I guess is another way of saying it's got a lot of slang terms that don't follow typical language rules. But then some say that American English is also idiosyncratic. As is the language of autistic children. Confused? I am so.

 

[sudsmaster]

What is a bit amazing about this lovely melody is that it was originally written for a rather pedestrian purpose.

Properly translated, the title of the song, in Russian, is more along the lines of "Suburban Moscow Nights".

It was written as part of a program of training for young Soviet athletes engaged in training at a sports complex in the Moscow area - in what we would call the suburbs of Moscow. The song was written about their period of rest in between training sessions. The writers of the song were amazed that it gained such popularity. It was written in 1955 and became an international hit, as well as a much beloved song for the Russian people. I guess it goes to show that out of the most banal experiences can come great works of art.