MOSCOW, May 8, Pavel Surkov. These songs did not just support our soldiers during the war years. They, in fact, were the same participants in the battles with the Nazis, like those in whose hearts they sounded. What hits were written during the Great Patriotic War and became a symbol of the Victory — in the material.
«Holy War»: hymn from Alexandrov
The text of the main war song was published two days after the Nazi invasion, and composer Alexander Alexandrov (the author of the anthems of the USSR and Russia) immediately created the music.
The score for the choir and orchestra was not printed in time for the recording on the radio, and Aleksandrov simply chalked the melody on the blackboard. The singers and musicians have marked the notes in the notebook. crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»762″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»m-vertical lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»2438″ decoding=»async» />
We rehearsed for one day — a day later «Holy War» was performed for the first time at the Belorussky railway station. Now there is a memorial plaque there, and the song is invariably heard in every documentary or TV program about the Great Patriotic War.This song was not planned during the filming of the movie «Two Soldiers». But director Leonid Lukov did not succeed in the episode in the dugout, where the soldier writes a letter home. And he decided that music would help.
Composer Nikita Bogoslovsky composed the melody in an hour, poet Vladimir Agatov composed the text. In the middle of the night, the artist Mark Bernes was awakened, and he rushed to the studio, where everything was recorded literally in two takes.
Nikita Bogoslovsky gave the notes of «Dark Night» to his friend Leonid Utyosov. His version was released on the record even before «Two Fighters» appeared on the silver screen. And the song went to the people before the premiere.
However, the performance of Bernes, more soulful and poignant than that of Utyosov, was much more loved by the public. And we remember «Dark Night» exactly as it sounds in the movie. ratio=»0.738552437223043″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»443″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1418″ decoding=» async» />
«Blue handkerchief»: a symbol of a front-line lyrical song
It was written by the Polish composer Jerzy Peterburgsky before the war, one of the first was performed by Lidia Ruslanova. She included the song in her repertoire for numerous performances as part of front-line brigades.
Soldiers always ordered this uncomplicated waltz, which reminded them of a distant home, loved ones and peaceful times. didn't go.
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The fact is that on the other side there was the song «In the dugout», and its fate turned out to be more complicated. Nevertheless, the «Blue Handkerchief» has become another lyrical symbol of the wartime.
«In the dugout»: popular and about love for his wife
Konstantin Listov's song to the words of Alexei Surkov was first recognized as too pessimistic, she was even refused to be released on a record. Although Surkov wrote the text right at the front, coming out from under a brutal mortar attack.
The poet's greatcoat was cut with fragments, so that, as he recalled, it remained only to add «It's not easy for me to reach you …».
And the song went to the people, it was performed by soldiers at the front, every soldier listened. True, the text has been slightly changed.
In the original it was: «I am warm in a cold dugout from my unquenchable love», and the soldiers sang «from your unquenchable love», remembering distant wives and mothers.
When Surkov told his wife about this, specifying that he wrote poems about the power of love for her, the wife ironically replied: «Well, Alyoshenka, the people corrected you!»
«Smuglyanka»: a pre-war song
Many people think that this is a post-war song composed specifically for the film «Only Old Men Go to Battle». No, «Smuglyanka» was born in 1940. It was created by Anatoly Novikov and Yakov Shvedov and was intended for a musical suite about the exploits of Grigory Kotovsky.
But the war interrupted work on the production of the suite, and the song The Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble recorded it for the first time on the radio in 1944. It was picked up at the fronts — and then the song ended up in one of our favorite films about the war.