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Songs and Dances of Ukraine (CD edition)

The Ukrainian Bandura Players
Songs and Dances of Ukraine (CD edition)

Songs and Dances of Ukraine presents instrumental and choral Ukrainian folk music. The bandura, a Ukrainian stringed instrument similar to a lute, provides accompaniment along with the resheto (tambourine), accordion, cimbalom, and violin. The Ukrainian Bandura Players, along with various guest orchestras, choirs, and soloists, perform in an operatic style heard on romantic songs such as “Evening Song” and “Oh, Maiden, The Frost Rustles.”

Track Listing

101
Sontze Nizenko (The Setting Sun) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:59  
102
Kozachok The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:37  
103
Zasvistali Kozachenki (The Cossacks are Whistling) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:00  
104
Hutsulka The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:16  
105
Evening Song (Vechirnia Pisnia) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:37  
106
The Fifer (Dudarik) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 01:25  
107
Vsiav Bi Ya Bandura (Enamored Bandura Player) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 04:03  
108
Kucheriava Katerina (Curly-Headed Catherine) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 01:52  
109
Oi, Divchina, Shumit Hai (Oh, Maiden, The Frost Rustles) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:58  
110
Na Mistochku (At the Little Bridge) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:19  
111
Chas Do Domu Chas (Time to Go Home) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 01:49  
112
Bukovenian Youth Dance The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:08  
113
Buv Sobi Zhuravel Ta Zhuravochka (There Was a Crane and His Mate) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 04:08  
114
The Wind Blows (Oi, Ou Poli Viter Vye) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:08  
115
Rozviytesia Z Vitrom (Scatter with the Wind) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:59  
116
Daremne Pisne (Song of Futility) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:05  
117
My Little Songs (Oi, Spivanochki Moye) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 01:44  
118
Ukrainian Folk Dance The Ukrainian Bandura Players 01:30  
119
Oi, Spivanochki Moye (My Little Songs) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 07:12  
120
Zabludilas V Sadu (Lost in the Orchard) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:39  
121
Chuyesh, Brate Mi? (Do You Hear, Brother?) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 03:15  
122
Perepilka (The Quail) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:56  
123
When Lovers Part (Koli Razluchaiyutsya Dvoye) The Ukrainian Bandura Players 02:54