懐かしい曲をありがとうございます。私も約30数年前に京都市交響楽団のニューイヤーコンサートで、恥ずかしながら、合唱で参加させていただきました。 その時の指揮者は黒岩秀臣さんだったと思います。 合同練習の時、私が音を外しまくっていたのを、楽団の人に見つかってこっちを振り向かれたのは、今ではいい思い出です。

Thank you nikolaos333! Shostakovich is the best composer of 20 Century. I listened this great performance with tears because Japanese Choras sang in Russian language as if they are Russian people. Even though Japan and Russia still do battle northern territories but music has no border. Beautiful colaboration, Russian Orchestra and Japanese vocal group. Beauty saves the world. Thank you again nikolaos　333 !　この名曲をもっと日本のあちこちで演奏して欲しいですね。（ベートーベンの第九ばかりやらないで）日本の山や緑を守る意味でも。

Underrated great work. Beautiful melodies

あぁ懐かしいなぁ。かつては第九と同じぐらい演奏されていたのだよなぁ。森の歌を歌った時、指揮者にどうしてもこれだけはお願いって終曲で追加されるブラスセクションをホール2階席に置いたのだ。もう感動だったよ。思想とは関係なく純粋に作品としてまたやりたいな。

A+++ glorious musical collaboration. Bravi all!

Pleased beyond all measure to find this video. nikolaos, I can't thank you enough for uploading this beautiful piece of music so beautifully presented and performed. Bravo!

merci ,hier soir dans ma voiture j'ai entendu la fin de cette oeuvre qui était jouée en direct de la salle playel à Paris ,,j'ai noté le nom de celle-ci et du compositeur que je ne connaissais pas ; je me suis empressée de chercher sur you tube , et d'écouter . merci encore , je chante dans une chorale et je suis sensible à ces voix et à cette musique .

Absolutely OUTSTANDING! Many THANKS for loding this marvel on KZfaq!

At last, this is the most favorite part of my mother!! She died five years ago. I handled her a CD of "Song of forest" as the last birthday present, as a result. She was very much pleased and ask me to play it again and again, to sing with the perfomance.

What an astonishing, resounding, and inspiring piece of music this is! Thank you so much for making it available on here!

This music touches me so deeply because it is so uplifting! It's wonderful to hear it again. Thank you njicokaos333 for uploading this. If you can get your hands on the original Vanguard recording (VRS 422, Song of the Forests, plural) it would be great -- Conductor is Mravinsky, soloists are Petrov, Tenor and Kilichevsky, bass. Combined Choirs (including children's choir in the final movement) and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. It is truly magnificent! (The original master tapes were with Leeds Music Corporation.) Thanks again!

WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS ONE OF THE SINGERS FOR THIS MAGNIFICENT CONCERT IN THE Netzahualcóyotl ,s Fórum . UNAM CHOIR

My recording of this from the 1950s features tenor, Petrov and bass, Kilichevsky ( really outstanding).and Eugene Mravinsky conducting the combined choirs and State Orchestra of the USSR.

本当に懐かしいです。29年前に歌ったことを思い出しました

When the POWER countries meet each other in CULTURE we ALWAYS have GRATE RESULTS!!! When the POWER countries meet each other in BUSINESS we ALWAYS have … :) :) :) THANK YOY NIKOLAOS...

1990年に名フィルとバンダで演奏させていただきました。ロシア譜だったので（しかも手書き）非常に読みにくく、ゲネプロで音を直させられたことを思い出します。

A great performance. I have performed this in a chorus, it is exhilarating.

御大の78年の映像を観たあとではソツないお仕事にしか感じられず。

Correction: Petrov is the bass; Kilichevsky, the tenor. My liner notes got it wrong.

Where did you find this video? Was it for a special exhibition of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic in Japan? Absolutely FABULOUS. MANY MANY THANKS.

@chobiandmike It is very touching what you write! I am very happy about it!

Imagine how good this would have been with a conductor who had some real connection with the music, and who looked up out of the score now and again to inspire the musicians. Too bad.

Hard to believe the same guy that wrote Shostakovich's 8th & 10th Symphonies wrote this smelly bit of tripe.