Soviet/Russian Love Song - Moscow Nights / Подмосковные вечера (Italian Version)

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Performed by: Johnny Dorelli
Italian title: Mezzanotte a Mosca

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"Moscow Nights" (Russian: Подмосковные вечера, tr. Podmoskovnye vechera) is a popular Soviet-Russian song. An arrangement exists for a march as well.

Well-established in their careers, composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky wrote the song in 1955 with the title "Leningradskie Vechera" ("Leningrad Nights"), but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, they changed the title to "Подмосковные вечера" ("Podmoskovnye Vechera," literally, "Evenings in the Moscow Oblast") and made corresponding changes to the lyrics.

In 1956, "Podmoskovnye Vechera" was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a scene in a documentary about the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's athletic competition Spartakiad in which the athletes rest in Podmoskovye, the Moscow suburbs. The film did nothing to promote the song, but thanks to radio broadcasts it gained considerable popularity.

In 1957, quite to the surprise of its creators, the song won both the first prize at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Moscow and the international song contest. The song spread around the world, achieving particular popularity in mainland China. Van Cliburn's arrangement of the tune, first performed by himself in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, contributed to this international spread.

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Lyrics:
Mezzanotte a Mosca vicino a te,
mentre tanta neve vien giù.
Non c’è stella in ciel,
ma il calore del nostro cuor
fa più bello e splendente il nostro amor.
Resta qui con me,
questa notte per noi sarà
un ricordo che in fondo al cuor vivrà.

Mezzanotte a Mosca vicino a te,
mentre tanta neve vien giù.
Non c’è stella in ciel,
ma il calore del nostro cuor
fa più bello e splendente il nostro amor.
Resta qui con me,
questa notte per noi sarà
un ricordo che in fondo al cuor vivrà.

Resta qui con me,
questa notte per noi sarà
un ricordo che in fondo al cuor vivrà.