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My musical tastes are pretty antiquated: I like guitar and balalaika especially with orchestra like Osipov State Orchestra. See Balalaika Hits.
A combination of singing with balalaika orchestra also can produce unique performces, especially in cases when old Russian Romances are performed (for example, romances with Sergey Esenin's lyrics like Klen tu moy opavshiy, Otgovorila rotcha zolotaya, Letter to mother) YouTube have several pretty rare Osipov State Orchestra performances with Yuri Gulyaev -- an extremely talented star who unfortunately died early:
Some performances of old Russian songs available on YouTube are really touching especially in Basso Profondo and soprano renditions:
Usually Red Army Choir performances of Russian folk songs are of very high quality, for example:
Tamara Sinyavskaya that I mentioned above in one of the Osipov orchestra performances ( Тамара Синявская У крыльца высокого) is one of the most impressive mezzo-soprano among the stars of Bolshoi Theater. You can enjoy almost a dozen of her unique performances of Russian songs on YouTube:
A good selection of old Russian romances can also be found on YouTube. See Romances. Among them:
Another less known but very interesting Russia Choir is so called Bolshoy Children Choir of the Central TV and Radio of the USSR. (now it exists under a different name). Here are some of their old performances that I have found on Youtube:
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Note: Other things equal, higher quality performances are listed first. Performances listed last might not represent true potential of the singer/band.
Recently I have found an very interesting documentary about tragic destiny one of the great star of this choir Sergey Paramonov:
- Sergey Paramonov. Soviet Robertino Loreti. Part 1/5
- Sergey Paramonov. Soviet Robertino Loreti. Part 2/5
- Sergey Paramonov. Soviet Robertino Loreti. Part 3-5
- Sergey Paramonov. Soviet Robertino Loreti. Part 4/5
- Sergey Paramonov. Soviet Robertino Loreti. Part 5/5
The talented child star never adapted after his voice changed. The system was pretty cruel and after exploiting a young start for five years or so (like in John Kenneth Galbraith's quote "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite"). After that he has left on the street with no money to sustain himself after he cannot perform anymore. But psychologically he already cannot be anything but a star and probably need help pf a psychologist to adapt. But nobody prepared him to the evitable changes and that trauma lead to chronic alcohol dependency and early death. Still his best performances will long bring people joy and happiness:
- Russian Happy Birthday song
- Together cheerfully to walk.
- chunga-changa
- Smile
- Улыбка. Smile Great performance by Bolshoy Children Choir of the Central TV and Radio of the USSR.
- Compare
- The blue car.
- Let always there will be a sunshine!
- March of cheerful children.
- Antoshka
- Song about a grasshopper.
- Wood deer
- When my friends are with me
- Когда мои друзья со мной. When my friends with me.
- Kogda moi druziya (rus) -- funny video but authentic sound.
- Song of the Red Cap.
- Distant Roads
- The dog was gone.
- Good buy pigeons
- Fly, pigeons
- How wonderful is this world
- Boys and girls
- Большой Детский Хор СССР Крылатые Качели
- Трус не играет в хоккей. The coward does not play hockey.
- Беловежская пуща. Belovezgskaya a dense forest.
- Small stones.
- Спят усталые игрушки. Tired toys sleep.
- Фрагменты двух песен. Fragments of two songs. (the second fragment)
- Flash fires
- Orlenok (eagle)
- Старый барабанщик. The old drummer.
- Пионерский марш. Pioneer march.
- Погоня. Pursuit.
- И вновь продолжается бой. And again fight proceeds.
- Дороги дальние. Roads distant.
- Старт даёт Москва. Start is given by Moscow.
- Большой детский хор Просьба
- Song Vitya-asking. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- Well. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- Step in immortality. Big Children's Choir. 1983.
- Song for awakening. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- On horses, guys. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- Old salts. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- Who is grazed on a meadow. Big Children's Choir. 1973.
- Новый день. New day.
- Улица мира. Street of the world.
- Дадим шар земной детям.
[Oct 4, 2009]
Russian Music (bucknell.edu)
The Yale Russian Chorus is an cappella ensemble composed of members from the Yale University and New Haven community. The group's mission is to celebrate the rich music and culture of the former Soviet Union. Since its inception in 1953, the Chorus has become a widely-acclaimed ensemble, performing an extensive repertoire of folk, liturgical, classical, and contemporary music from Russia and its neighboring republics.
The Slavyanka Men's Slavic Chorus regularly presents a cappella concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area. The repertoire is liturgical and folk music, mostly Russian. 'Slavyanka' is the name that the early Russian settlers in California gave to the river that is today known as the Russian River. Slavyanka was formed in 1979 by several former members of the Yale Russian Chorus. The founder of Slavyanka and director until 1991 was Paul Andrews.
Best Russian Songs - MP3 Music Streams on IMEEM
Here are some sources for the lyrics to Russian songs in KOI8 Cyrillic fonts and transliterated for regular fonts.
The MIT Russian Club is the repository of the lyrics of Russian popular songs written by virtually all the major contemporary popular song writers. To decode them you will need the music, some of which is provided on the site. The lyrics are provided in KOI8 fonts and transliterated.
This site includes a healthy selection of Russian popular songs, including the latest songs from the Russian army fighting in Chechnya.
Information on one of the ultimate sources of 20th century music is beginning to appear on the Web. The Bolshoy Theatre has pictures from their productions of two of his operas. Hopefully, there will be more soon. Stravinsky owes too much to Mussorgsky for the latter to be so ignored.
Only a few web sites are devoted to Sergei Prokiev. Bruce maintains one with a good deal of promise. Chad Twedt offers a short essay on Prokofiev here.
Vassilievich Rachmaninoff was born on April 1, 1873, at Semyonovo, the family estate near the ancient city of Novgorod. He was not only a gifted pianist who loved to tour the US, but was a major romantic composer, as well. Rachmaninoff was associated with the Western-oriented St. Petersburg Conservatory with the Rubenstein brothers and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The International Rachmaninoff Society provides a history and critique of Rachmaninoff's lesser known 3rd Piano Concerto. I have also been able to find a a Rachmaninoff Lover's page, for those currently or previously in love. Whatever the Web has to offer on Rachmaninoff can probably be found at one of the sites of the Rachmaninoff Webring.
A biography of Rimsky-Korsakov and the libretto in transliterated Russian to his opera, May Night, based on a story by Gogol may be found here. Even better, OperaGlass, a site maintained on Rick Bogart's workstation at Stanford, contains a listing of all of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas with a libretto, synopsis, performance history for most of them.
Ian McDonald's Music under Soviet Rule has become the richest source of information on Shostakovich. It now includes a substantial literary archive of articles on Shostakovich and his music as well as a detailed chronology of his life. Simon Hawkin's Shostakovich site also has some interesting links. Alexandre H. Hohmann offers pictures, libretti, sound files and links at his mysterious site. Another rich resource of Shostakovichiana may be found at the site of the same name. New! Association Internationale "Dimitri Chostokovich"
Stravinsky, of course, played a major role in changing the course of music in the 20th century with the infamous debut of 'The Rite of Spring' in Paris in 1913. An excellent short biography may be found in Finland. But John Harrington's site remains the best source of information on Stravinsky. It now includes an complete annotated list of Stravinsky's works. Last but certainly not least comes Victor Huang's excellent site, rich with photographs and MIDI files of Stravinsky's music. A good place to start.
Tchaikovsky, the composer of the music you are now listening to, was the ultimate master of Romantic music. Remarkably, there is currently very little about Tchaikovsky on the Web--a time-line, and a small collection of MIDI sequences of his music.
The quintessential Russian musical instrument is the triangular balalaika. Would you believe it, there is an association for these instruments in America.
Robin LaPasha of Duke University has a page briefly introducing Russian folk wind instruments.
This site features the concert schedules of all the concert halls, their addresses, biographies of composers (forthcoming), and MP3 snippets of classical music. Worth a visit now and getting better every day.
The mother of them all is the Bolshoi—opera and ballet in one theater. One of the world's great opera houses and home of the finest classical ballet troup in the world. The Bolshoi Theater web-server provides a complete history complete with historical photographs. The Russia.net also has several pages on the Bolshoi, including a history of it and an interview with its director, Vassiliev. Finally, Seanet has a brief description, too.
Gregorian chant is one of the many traditions of liturgical song that developed in the Christian church during the medieval period. The liturgical chant texts were created in ancient languages, the most important of which were Greek, Latin, Old Slavonic, the language of the Bulgarian, Russian, and Serbian Orthodox churches.
The St. Petersburg ballet theater was established by Catherine the Great in the Mariinsky Theater and shortly became one of the great companies in the world. This site contains a history, interviews with principle dancers, instructors, a review of the Vaganova Ballet School, and a great deal of information on the Nutcracker Ballet from which the music you now hear was taken.
Program notes, information on Nijinski, Pavlova, Fokine, Balanchine, and all the great performers and composers of the Russian company which took the breath of Paris away at the beginning of the century. Jenny Gorman and Chris Sippel have provided a short essay on the Ballets at the Rhodes College site.
Links to information on a wide range of classical Russian composers of the 19th and 20th century along, including biographies, librettos, lists of works. It may be soon moving to Delaware.
Thanks to Southern Illinois University Ian McDonald's delightful site is back with all its general information on Soviet music plus individual pages on Prokofiev, Shostakovich and many minor composers. It also contains CD information, chronologies of more than a dozen Soviet composers, and information on Soviet music discussion groups.
This is the web site of an exciting course on Russian and Eastern European music and culture by Patricia Gray of Rhodes College. It includes a rich array of background notes on music and icons, graphics, musical selections in AIFF files, and links to related sites. A wonderful place to visit even if you are not enrolled, if you like Russian music.
This is a site with opus lists of all the well-known 20th century Russian composers and most of the minor ones. There is also information about the availability of CDs with these composers' music.
A magnificent site with quick, appealing and most appropriate JAVA applets. This site is interesting for its history and links to other Russian music sites, especially Russian Classics On-line--real stereo performances of various world symphonies delivered via stream audio. Be sure you have the Real Audio plug-in installed before you enter the concert hall; you will want to leave the music on as you continue to move around the web. If you don't already have it, you may download it on the site. This is a major on-line event for Russian culture. Don't miss it!
Vysotsky's gruff voice and starkly, sometimes slyly, poetic lyrics have inspired two generations of Russians and are working their way into the young hearts of a third. In addition to the major Vysotsky web site
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