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Songs and Dances of Ukraine

Various Artists
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

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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  
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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