Sergei Kisseliev, tenor ; Gennadi Bezzubenko [sic], baritone (1st work) ; Nikolai Marton, reciter ; Irina Savitskova, narrator ; Zlata Bulitcheva, mezzo-soprano ; Viktor Rjavkin, boy alto ; Boys' Choir of Glinka College ; St. Petersburg Chorus ; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra ; Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Recorded April 15 & 16, 1997, at the Big Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Song of the forests, op. 81 = Pesn o lesakh / Dmitri Shostakovich ; text, Evgeny Dolmatovsky (37:27) -- On guard for peace, op. 124 = Na strazhe mira / Sergei Prokofiev ; text, Samuil Marshak (36:14)