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With Napoleon in Russia
[words Maddy Prior; music trad. arr. Prior, Holland, Donockley]
This is a song cycle from Maddy Prior's album Ravenchild. She commented in the sleeve notes:
This piece is based on a contemporary account by an officer from the South German State of Württemberg, Lt. H. Vossler, serving with Napoleon in 1812/13 on that long and disastrous march against the hugeness that is Russia. It was also inspired by a traditional song, The Grand Conversation with Napoleon which forms the basis of Scorched Earth.
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