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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 artistic impression, especially in cases when old Russian Romances are performed (for example, romances with Sergey Esenin's lyrics) YouTube have several pretty rare Osipov State Orchestra performances with Yuri Gulyaev -- an extremely talented star who unfortunately died early.

Several Russian songs became the part of world culture and often attributed to other countries. For example

Some great performances of old Russian songs available on YouTube are really touching especially in Basso Profondo and soprano renditions:

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. A good selection of old Russian romances can also be found on YouTube. See Romances. Usually Red Army Choir performances of Russian folk songs are of very high quality, for example:

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. 

[May 10, 2012] Bulat Okudzhava

[May 9, 2012] Victory day

[May 2, 2012] Bolshoy_Children_Choir_of_the_Central_TV_and_Radio_of_the_USSR

 

[May 1, 2012]  May 1 -- International Labor Day.

[Apr 30, 2012] Philip Kirkorov

[Apr 17, 2012] Valeria

[Apr 16, 2012] Alla Pugacheva

[Apr 15, 2012] Russian Basso Profondo

Pasuikov

Wichniakov

Miller

Artur Eizen

Nesterenko

Ivanov

Mikhailov

Orlov

Storojev

Grabovsky

Taras Shtonda

Soloviov

Gmyria

Mark Riezen

[Apr 14, 2012]

[Apr 1, 2012] Russian Musical Humor

[Mar 25, 2012] Maria Pakhomenko

[Mar 24, 2012] Klavdiya Shulzhenko

[Mar 20, 2012] Valeriy Leontiev

 

[Mar 19, 2012] Boris Shtokolov

[Mar 15, 2012]   Olga Piterish

[Mar 12, 2012] Irina Ponarovskaya

[Mar 09, 2012] Larisa Golubkina

Лариса Голубкина, Михаил Державин Листопад  ( the second half (from 7:01) of Бенефис Ларисы Голубкиной (1975 г. часть 8 )  starting 4.44

[Mar 08, 2012] Andrei Mironov

[Mar 8, 2012] International woman day

[Mar 07, 2012] Tatyana Bulanova

[Mar 5, 2012] Tamara Miansarova

[Feb 24, 2013] Maya Kristalinskaya

About her:

Best songs:

  1. Майя Кристалинская Вальс о вальсе
  2. Майя Кристалинская Текстильный городок
  3. Майя Кристалинская Когда разлюбишь ты
  4. Майя Кристалинская Наши мамы
  5. Майя Кристалинская Судьба
  6. Майя Кристалинская Я тебя подожду
  7. Майя Кристалинская Какая песня без баяна
  8. Майя Кристалинская Ненаглядный мой
  9. Майя Кристалинская Ветер северный
  10. Майя Кристалинская Волны
  11. Майя Кристалинская Старый причал
  12. Майя Кристалинская Где ты раньше был
  13. Майя Кристалинская Аист
  14. Майя Кристалинская - Нежность
  15. Майя Кристалинская Старый клён
  16. Майя Кристалинская (за кадром) Два берега
  17. Майя Кристалинская Город спит
  18. Майя Кристалинская Таёжный вальс
  19. Майя Кристалинская Неужели это мне одной
  20. Майя Кристалинская Журавлёнок
  21. Майя Кристалинская (за кадром) А снег идёт
  22. Майя Кристалинская Бирюсинка
  23. Майя Кристалинская (за кадром) Ты не печалься
  24. Майя Кристалинская Наши мамы
  25. Майя Кристалинская Листья прошлогодние
  26. Майя Кристалинская Полынь
  27. Майя Кристалинская Письмо на Усть-Илим
  28. Кристалинская Tоп Tоп
  29. Майя Кристалинская Судьба
  30. М. Кристалинская, И. Кобзон Девчонки танцуют на палубе
  31. Майя Кристалинская Возможно
  32. Майя Кристалинская Для тебя
  33. Майя Кристалинская - И меня пожалей (Страдание)
  34. Майя Кристалинская - На кургане
  36. Майя Кристалинская. Опустела без тебя земля (2005)  
  37. Майя Кристалинская Так уж бывает
  38. Майя Кристалинская Листопад
  39. Майя Кристалинская Песенка о счастье  
  40. Майя Кристалинская. Поговорим.
  41. Майя Кристалинская Город спит
  42. Майя Кристалинская - Царевна-Несмеяна
  43. Майя Кристалинская Детство ушло вдаль
  44. Майя Кристалинская Ночные вокзалы
  45. Майя Кристалинская Мосты

[Feb 23, 2013] Russian Red Army Choir

Alexandrov ensemble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Farewall of Slavyanka (official march of Russian army)

Revolutionary songs

Songs of war time

Classic Russian songs and romances

Soviet songs

Etc

Ukrainian songs

[Feb 19, 2012] Yuri Antonov

 

[Feb 13, 2012] Vitas

[Feb 04, 2012] Two stars show on the First channel

[Feb 1, 2012] Lev Letshchenko

[Jan 26, 2012] Vyacheslav Dobryinin

[Jan 25, 2012] Vladimir Visotskij

[Jan 24, 2012] Valeriy Obodzinskiy

See also Ободзинский, Валерий Владимирович — Википедия

[Jan 20, 2012] Irina Allegrova

[Jan 12, 2012] Pensyary

[Jan 8, 2012] Random findings

[Jan 7, 2012]  Russian Basso Profondo

Boris Shtokolov

Mark Riezen

Artur Eizen

Nesterenko

Ivanov

Pasuikov

Wichniakov

Mikhailov

Miller

Orlov

Storojev

Grabovsky

Taras Shtonda

Soloviov

Gmyria

Ice and Fire show.

[Jan 03, 2012] Russian tango

Really amazing performance on ice: Utomlennoe solnce-Tat'yana Navka i Marat Basharov

[Jan 02, 2012]  Russian Waltzes

[Jan 1, 2012] New Year in Moscow

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Music of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia pretty weak :-(

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Минусовки

www.sras.org (The School of Russian and Asian Studies

The Yale Russian Chorus

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.

Modern Russian Music

The Slavyanka Mens Slavic Chorus

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.

Hits of the MIT Russian Club
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.

Simon Hawkin's Russian Bards
This site includes a healthy selection of Russian popular songs, including the latest songs from the Russian army fighting in Chechnya.

Russian Composers

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

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.

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

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.

Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

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.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

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.

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

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"

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

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.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

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.

Russian Musical Instruments

The Balalaika and Domra

The quintessential Russian musical instrument is the triangular balalaika. Would you believe it, there is an association for these instruments in America.

Russian Wind Instruments

Robin LaPasha of Duke University has a page briefly introducing Russian folk wind instruments.

Other Russian Music Sites

Classical Music of St. Petersburg

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.

Bolshoi Theatre

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 Chants

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.

Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet

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.

Les Ballets Russe

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.

Lyle Neff's Files on Russian Classical Music

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.

Music under Soviet Rule

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.

Musical Heritage of Eastern Europe and Russia

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.

Onno van Rijen's 20th Century Russian Music Site

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.

St. Petersburg Conservatory

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!

Folk Culture THE BALALAIKA

Vladimir Vysotsky

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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