Songs and Dances of Ukraine

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	The Setting Sun (Sontze Nizenko) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky with Ivan Kozlovsky	03:59
102	Kozachok Ukrainian State Orchestra of Folk Instruments conducted by Hrihori Veriovka	02:37
103	The Cossacks Are Whistling (Zasvistali Kozachenki) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky with Ivan Kozlovsky	03:00
104	Hutsulka Ukrainian State Orchestra of Folk Instruments conducted by Hrihori Veriovka	02:16
105	Evening Song (Vechirnia Pisnia) Ukrainian State Radio Orchestra of Folk Instruments conducted by Nikolai Khivrich with Nikolai Fokin	03:37
106	The Fifer (Dudarik) Ukrainian Dumka Chorus conducted by Alexander Soroka	01:25
107	Enamored Bandura Player (Vsiav Bi Ya Bandura) Boris Hmirya	04:03
108	Curly-Headed Catherine (Kucheriava Katerina) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky	01:52
109	Oh, Maiden, the Frost Rustles (Oi, Divchina, Shumit Hai) Ukrainian Radio Ensemble of Bandura Players conducted by Andrei Bobre	02:58
110	At the Little Bridge (Na Mistochku) Children's Chorus and Orchestra of Kaliningrad conducted by Yuri Silantiev with Ivan Kozlovsky	02:19
111	Time to Go Home (Chas Do Domu Chas) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky	01:49
112	Bukovenian Youth Dance Bukovian Song and Dance Ensemble conducted by Ilya Miski	02:08
113	There Was a Crane and His Mate (Buv Sobi Zhuravel Ta Zhuravochka) Children's Chorus and State Radio Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Katz with Ivan Kozlovsky, Veniamin Koptev, Nina Nadtochikh, and Kira Sibina	04:08
114	The Wind Blows (Oi, Ou Poli Viter Vye) Nikolai Osadchenko	03:08
115	Scatter with the Wind (Rozviytesia Z Vitrom) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky with Nikolai Osadchenko	03:59
116	Song of Futility (Daremne Pisne) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky	03:05
117	By the Mill (Oi Tam Kolo Mlina) Ukrainian Bandura Players conducted by Alexander Minkovsky	01:44
118	Ukrainian Folk Dance Anatole Belyaev	01:30
119	My Little Songs (Oi, Spivanochki Moye) Children's Chorus and State Radio Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Katz with Ivan Kozlovsky	07:12
120	Lost in the Orchard (Zabludilas V Sadu) Nina Pavlenko, Tamara Polischenko and Valentina Tretyakova	02:39
121	Do You Hear, Brother? (Chuyesh, Brate Mi?) Ivan Kozlovsky, Kira Tsibina, Nina Nadtochikh	03:15
122	The Quail (Perepilka) Children's Chorus and State Radio Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Katz with Ivan Kozlovsky, Kira Sibina, and Nina Nadtochikh	02:56
123	When Lovers Part (Koli Razluchaiyutsya Dvoye) Ivan Kozlovsky, Boris Hmirya, Lev Ostrin	02:54