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To mark Anna German's 90th birthday, Firma Melodiya is releasing a vinyl reissue of selected recordings by the singer.
Anna German's first encounter with Soviet audiences took place in 1965, when Melodiya released her first record, featuring songs in Polish and Italian. By the 1970s, she was performing regularly in our country: her voice could be heard on countless radio stations across the Soviet Union, and her records sold in huge numbers.
…Not sweet, no, not sugary-honey,The tall Warsaw Madonna sang on stage honestly and brightly,Giving hope and warmth.
This is how the poet and songwriter Mikhail Plyatskovsky wrote about her. Millions of Soviet people loved and regarded this singer of German-Dutch descent, born in Central Asia and by fate ending up in Poland, as one of their own, much closer and dearer than some of their compatriots. And it wasn't just that she sang without an accent. The life of Anna German, possessor of a remarkably gentle and soft voice, was full of tragic trials: the execution of her father, wandering through the cities of the USSR during the hungry war years, and a terrible car accident in Italy at the very beginning of her international career, which forced her to forget about singing and the stage for three years. Fate did not grant her much time for creativity, but these were years of truly national love.
The album, produced at Melodiya's own production facility, features songs recorded by Anna German between 1965 and 1979. It juxtaposes early compositions like "City of Lovers" (by Vadim Gamaliya and Viktor Orlov), "Don't Hurry" (by Arno Babajanyan and Yevgeny Yevtushenko), and later ones like "Echo of Love" (by Yevgeny Ptichkin and Robert Rozhdestvensky), and "Spring" (by Valeria Milyaeva). And, of course, "Hope" (by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov)—a song-mantra that has become a symbol of resilience in the face of adversity.
Today, Anna German's voice, filling souls with hope, love, and the light of sincere feelings, is needed by people more than ever.
The record was pressed in 2026. The matrices were made from original analog tapes. The sound engineer for the remastering and restoration was Maxim Pilipov. The liner notes were written by Denis Boyarinov. The artist was Vasily Karmazin.
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