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Welcome to RICHKA.COM.....
Russian Music and
Dance -
Nearby Regions and Former USSR States |
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As Russia and the other
former USSR states rush to modernize themselves, regional traditional music
is becoming an endangered species. Richka maintains a tiny sample of a vast musical richness. E-mail comments and corrections are always welcome.
Email Jim Duncan, OKAY Multimedia (photo
- me in Russia)
All music and videos are in
Real
Audio format.
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More Real
Audio music....go
to our COLLECTIONS
page
Dance Real Videos....in COLLECTIONS
and MULTIMEDIA
Two new tunes
on Richka.com. These are sung by children with the Kuban Cossack
Chorus orchestra and are delightful arrangements. You can see this in
video form on
YouTube.
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The 11 tunes below are from an essentially unavailable CD entitled "Russian Divertisment"
(bought at a hotel lobby live music performance in St.
Petersburg)
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Six
new tunes from this group! |
Some Favorites |
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Instrumentals
Vocals
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Chorus |
Russian Folk Music used in Other
Forms -
examples
- Overture on
Russian Themes -
Rimsky-Korsakoff 3:55
This is my favorite theme from this 13 minute composition.
- Hopak
- from Rimsky-Korsakoff's opera
May Night 2:00
- Kolo - dance around a
bonfire from Rimsky-Korsakoff's opera Mlada 1:29
- Tale of the
Birds -
from Liadov's Eight Russian Folk Songs 1:33
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Russian
Dance - my favorite tune
from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake 4:25
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Moscow
Nights - blues singer Kitty
Lester 1966 2:20
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Oh, Mne
Nevmogotu - from Kovanschina by Mussorgsky
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Apotheosis
2:22
I understand that this music is based on a pre-20th century
czarist anthem. It is full blown Old Russia nationalism. Turn up those
speakers and get Russian!
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Soviet National
Anthem -
used 1944-1991; complete; with revised 1977 lyrics
You've all frequently heard this theme in earlier Olympic
telecasts as Soviet athletes swept up the gold medals, so for old time's sake here it is
complete with singing. This is the "clean" version from which references to
Stalin were removed in 1977. Its original
lyrics embody a nationalistic style now very
out of step with the march of time. For one look at why Stalin was erased from the anthem,
go to the mines of Kolyma
in Siberia. Many more versions of the Soviet and Russian
anthems back to czarist times are on this
cool site.
Last but not least...
- Kacharpari
- no, this isn't Russian nor Slavic at all but is a sample
of the music on my Andean music website BOLEADORA.COM.
Check it out!
- Romanian
National Anthem - most national anthems are
terrible - surely chosen by commitees. However, the Romanians have
managed to choose a nice anthem - one of the world's best - for
their country.
Orchestra only version.
Links
of Interest and Friends of Richka
+Worldwide National Anthems - cool site
+Music of the
Renaissance Period
+MUSIC FROM THE ANDES
Boleadora.Com
+Arrow
Catcher
+Santa Cruz Real Estate
+Los Gatos High
School Class of 1965
+Many Kites Press
- Real Rez
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