The Don Cossacks Choir Russia (Хор донских казаков России) is a Russian folk choir of returned exiles and native Russian

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, founded in 1992 and led by the Dutch conductor

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(Russian; Марсель Верхуф).Der Spiegel: Issues 45-48 Rudolf Augstein - 1996 "Jaroffs Kosakenensemble, 1921 von Russen im türkischen Exil gegründet, trat bis zu seiner Auflösung ... Sängern unter Leitung des niederländischen Dirigenten Marcel "Nicolajevich" Verhoeff, ebenfalls als Jaroffs Erbe." The choir takes inspiration from the Don Cossack Choir of Serge Jaroff (1921) which continues to exist independently outside Russia. The new choir was formed when, following the Gorbachev era, changes in Russia allowed both exiled cossacks to come home and also native Russian cossacks to reassert their traditions.

Discography

* Russian Christmas

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. Old Church Slavonic libretto with English and German translations. * Russian Romances Christophorus. Cyrillic libretto with English and German translations.

References

History of the Don Cossacks Russian folk music groups Russian musical groups Musical groups established in 1992 Cossack culture {{Russia-band-stub