Your message indicated that you're searching for a specific Russian song
called "The Steppes," or perhaps "The Steppe."

There are many compilation of Russian songs on CD.  The compilations
that I have don't include a song with that name.  Nor does the complete
collection of Mussorgsky songs include such a title.  Of course there are
many more collections and compilations out there.

You might wish to go to the website for Russian folksongs at
russia.uthscsa.edu/Music/Folk/ and try the songs available there.

Here's a Naxos disk that contains material with the words steppe and
steppes.  Perhaps the song is what you are seeking.

I saw this at www.cdconnection.com.

There is a long story or novella by Chekhov (The Steppe) that is important
in Russian literature and it's not inconceivable that a Russian composer
constructed a musical work deriving from that story.  At the same time
Russian music includes hundreds, possibly thousands, of songs that were
composed over the last 175 years and seem to straddle some imaginary line
between western ideas of classical and popular.  Many are written by the
finest of Russian or slavic composers and are quite beautiful.

   RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS
   CD  -- $5.58 NAXOS 550781  -- 12/94
   Rybakova/Moscow Patriarchal Ch   [DDD] 1:10
   Traditional. On the steppes  - Arranged: V. Sokolov
   Traditional. Steppes, only steppes all around  - Arranged: A. Sveshnikov

   ------------------------------------
   Complete list of songs on this disk: along the river, dark eyes, do
   not reproach me, do not blame, down the river mother volga, evening
   bell, fade, fade, guelder fose, in the dark forest, neibour, o the
   steppes, o, the sweet light, snow falls in the street, steppes, only
   steppes all around, the bell tolls, the legend of the twelve highwaymen,
   the troika-mail is running, the young man has flown like a bird

Harry Davis
Houston
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