This work includes the children's folk song "U vorot" and the song "At the Gate, at my Gate," and opens with strings playing the Troparion of the Holy Cross, "God Preserve thy People.
This work includes the children's folk song "U vorot" and the song "At the Gate, at my Gate," and opens with strings playing the Troparion of the Holy Cross, "God Preserve thy People." This work debuted at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, and it commemorates a (*) defense against Napoleon. The anthem "La Marseillaise" is heard in, for 10 points, what festival music by Tchaikovsky that features cannonfire?
This work includes the children's folk song "U vorot" and the song "At the Gate, at my Gate," and opens with strings playing the Troparion of the Holy Cross, "God Preserve thy People.
{1812} Overture