Product Review

A deep dark Cossack song echoes over endless mighty steppes. Impressive Saint-Petersburg & dazzling Moscow. The land of vodka & Volga. In 'From Russia With Love', Helmut Lotti encounters a new world. A vast empire he describes in touching words & captivating harmonies. 'From Russia With Love' is his personal postcard from the land of Pushkin, Tolstoy & Tchaikovsky. So it's not - as one of the local choir members wonders during the recordings, prickled by chords in minor & balalaika an unknown Russian traditional song. Nor is it the title music to a Bond movie with Sean Connery. 'From Russia With Love' is the portrait of a world nation, painted with admiration by a world star. EMI. 2004.