Olga Vasilievna Kovaleva (1881 - 1962) was born in the village of Lyubovka (Okunevka) of the Atkarsk district of the Saratov province and spent her childhood there.
At sixteen, she leaves her home and goes to the city. In Samara, Olga Kovaleva lives with distant relatives, learns to read and write, at the age of twenty she enters the paramedic courses. During these years, she still does not realize her true vocation, although she constantly sings folk love songs. The beautiful voice and musicality of the peasant girl attract the attention of those around her. Musicians notice her and help her to enter a music school - to learn to sing.
Already a student (1904-1906), she participates in concerts organized by the Samara branch of the Russian Musical Society (RMO). After completing music courses at the Samara RMO, Olga Kovaleva went to St. Petersburg, where she took lessons from Professor IM Pryanishnikov at a three-year private operatic course (1907-1909). With the assistance of Pryanishnikov, she enters the traveling opera troupe of Rostov-on-Don, touring the cities of the Volga region (Samara, Tsaritsyn, Astrakhan).
After working in it for one winter season (1909/10), Olga Vasilievna Kovaleva leaves the theater, but performs in concerts with various partners as an "opera singer" (1910/11). Her program includes only arias and romances by Russian and foreign composers.
After a short stay in Lyubovka, Olga Vasilievna decides to include folk songs in her concert performances. The first song she sang was "Luchinushka" (a love version), which became a kind of musical emblem for all her subsequent concerts. The folk song repertoire Olga Vasilievna draws from the collections of M. A. Balakirev, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. V. Lyadov, where the songs are presented in a monophonic presentation with piano accompaniment.
Having settled in Novorossiysk (1911/12), O. V. Kovaleva performs with other artists in cities and villages of southern Russia. And in 1912-13 she gave concerts with her constant partner - the violinist Herman Clemens * - in the Central Russian regions and in the cities of the Volga region as a peasant singer and folk song performer. According to the posters, she "performs in the folk peasant costume of the Ryazan province."
In early 1914 they were in Moscow. This year is becoming significant for Olga Vasilievna Kovaleva. A lot of posters and reviews of that time show that OV Kovaleva's performing profile seems to be stabilizing and “enlarging”. If earlier the leading figure of the ensemble was the violinist Herman Clemens, who graduated from the Moscow People's Conservatory, who performed “with the participation of Mrs. Olga Kovaleva,” now Olga Kovaleva is the main performer of the program; violinist G. Clemens plays variations on the themes of one or two folk songs, and otherwise composes a duet with the singer, playing along with the "echoes" of the songs.
Especially significant for Olga Vasilievna was the "Evening of Songs" - a concert in the Polytechnic Museum, organized by E.E. Linear in February 1914. OV Kovaleva from a provincial, little-known itinerant singer turns into a "well-known" performer of folk songs. Her repertoire is noticeably becoming more serious, thematically deepening and at the same time "democratizing". Olga Vasilievna's own recordings, songs of her dear Lyubov-ka, ethnographic recordings by E. Lineva, Yu. Melgunov, N. Palchikov, begin to take a large place in it. Her portrait is printed next to the portrait of M. Ye. Pyatnitsky (newspaper "Nov" for 1914). The reviews note the authenticity of folk art, truthfulness, simplicity, restraint inherent in female folk singing *.
During the difficult war years (1914-1916) Olga Vasilievna performs in charity concerts, in hospitals ("sister with songs"), in barracks, leads a singing circle in a shelter for blind warriors with disabilities, sings songs for ordinary people, bypassing Moscow courtyards. Tours continue in remote and remote corners of the country.
In 1917, a new, second period of Kovaleva's artistic career began, which brought her fame, prosperity, and great creative satisfaction. Olga Vasilievna becomes an active participant in concerts for the people. She sings in the shops of plants and factories, in barracks, in squares and train stations. Its popularity is growing. Now her constant partners are the singer Anatoly Dolivo and the domra quartet under the direction of G.P. Lyubimov. In 1921, Olga Vasilievna went with them to Sweden, Norway, where the artists give concerts in favor of the starving people of the Volga region. (Subsequent trips abroad in the same composition were in 1925, to Paris for a world art exhibition, and in 1927, to Frankfurt am Main for a decade of Soviet art.)
Since 1924 Olga Vasilievna has been speaking on the radio, mainly in programs for peasants. She meets in concerts with the guslar K.M.Seversky, the choir of M.E. Pyatnitsky, with P.G. Yarkov and his choir, with Irma Yaunz, continues to communicate with the figures of the musical and ethnographic commission of Moscow University, relatives of E.E. Lineva , the Denisov family (female trio), the folk song quartet under the direction of V. A. Fedorov, the singer A. I. Tretyakova and many experts in the folk song. It was in this environment that the traditions of modern performance of folk songs on the stage were formed, the repertoire of Soviet folk singers was created.
The second period, the heyday of Olga Vasilievna's creative and performing activities, ended with her being awarded the title of Honored (1934) and People's (1946) Artist of the RSFSR.
While at the main job as a soloist of the All-Union Radio, Olga Vasilievna in the third and last period of her working life is a consultant of the Russian song choir of the All-Union Radio. She advises young performers M. Kiryushova, A. Savelyeva, E. Shurupova, E. Semenkina, A. Frolova, L. Zykina, transfers her performing experience to them. Olga Vasilievna died on January 2, 1962 at the eighty-first year of her life.
Name
: Collection of the best Russian folk songs
Performers
: various
Year
: 2015
Genre : Other
Duration
: 05:21:05
Format / Codec
: MP3
Audio bitrate
: 256 kbps
The size : 618 Mb
Description : Collection of the 100 best folk songs. All those songs that the whole Russian people knows and sings! Sing with us!
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Song list:
001. Lydia Ruslanova - Golden Mountains
002.Sergey Zakharov - Three
003. Russian song - Marusya
004. Nadezhda Krygina - Komariki
005. Lyudmila Zykina - I dropped the ring
006. Lyudmila Nikolaeva - Black-browed, black-eyed
007. Georg Ots - It's not the wind that tends the branch
008. Tatyana Petrova - My golden ring
009. Ivan Skobtsov - Here's a troika zip
010. Nikolay Timchenko - Along St. Petersburg
011. Joseph Kobzon - You are waiting for Lizaveta
012. Nikolay Erdenko - I remember, I remember
013.Sergey Lemeshev - How Vanyusha walked
014. Olga Voronets - I'll go, I'll go out
015. Nikolay Gedda - Oh you, darling
016. Evgeniy Nesterenko - Evening Bells
017. Alexandra Strelchenko - Charming eyes
018. Evgeniya Shevchenko - We rode a boat
019. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - As my own mother accompanied me
020. Ivan Surzhikov - Wife
021. Nikolay Timchenko - I'll go out into the street
022. Olga Voronets - Someone is not present, someone is sorry
023. Olga Kovaleva - There are two flowers on the window
024. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - Katyusha
025. Maxim Mikhailov - Oh you, my share
026. Vladiyar - Oh, frost, frost
027. Lydia Ruslanova - Kamarinskaya
028. Ivan Skobtsov - The night is dark, catch the minutes
029. Tamara Abdullaeva - How a soldier served
030.Sergey Zakharov - The month is shining
031. Lyudmila Nikolaeva - Gypsies rode
032. Tatyana Petrova - As in the evening, in the evening
033. Olga Voronets - With the people in a round dance
034.Sergey Lemeshev - Blizzard
035. White Day - Oh, how I like you!
036. Vika Tsyganova - Peddlers
037. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - Someone came down from the hill
038. Galina Nevara - Nightingales
039. Maria Pakhomenko - There is no better that color
040. Nikolay Erdenko - Joy
041. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - Pretty, young
042. Alla Bayanova - Holiday in the countryside
043. Nadezhda Krygina - Ukhar-merchant
044. Ivan Skobtsov - Even among the valley
045. Maxim Mikhailov - Oh you, my share
046.Sergey Lemeshev - I'm sitting on a pebble
047. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - When I had mountains of gold
048. Olga Voronets - Bird cherry sways under the window
049. Ivan Skobtsov - Steppe and steppe all around
050. Lyudmila Nikolaeva - Matanya
051. Sergey Zakharov - Along the river
052. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - Lullaby
053.Sergey Zakharov - Hey, coachman, drive to Yar
054. Lydia Ruslanova - Along the wild steppes of Transbaikalia
055. Zinaida Sazonova - Oh, it's not evening
056. Tamara Sinyavskaya - Mother, that the field is dusty
057. Voronezh State Russian Folk Choir - Ducks are flying
058. Vladiyar - My joy lives
059. Lydia Ruslanova - I was walking up the hill
060. Tatyana Petrova - My Vanyushka
061. Karina and Ruzana Lisitsian - Meadow Duck
062. Lyudmila Zykina - From under the pebble
063. Ekaterina Shavrina - The month was painted crimson
064. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - As on the hills over the mountains
065. Lyudmila Zykina - Bell under the arc
066. Lydia Ruslanova - Valenki
067. Voronezh girls vocal ensemble - Thin rowan
068. State Academic Choir, hands. A. Sveshnikova - Oh, you are a wide steppe
069. Alexandra Strelchenko - Along the Murom path
070.Sergey Zakharov - I am the whole universe
071. Anna German - From behind the island to the rod
072. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - Oh, my fogs
073. Ivan Skobtsov - Dubinushka
074. Vika Tsyganova - Red Kalina
075. Lyudmila Zykina - Sing the Nightingale in the Garden
076.Sergey Zakharov - Spinner
077. Boris Shtokolov - Night
078. Olga Voronets - Kalinka
079. Viktor Klimenko - Coachman, don't drive horses
080. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - Ural Ryabinushka
081. Maria Maksakova - Over the fields, but over the clean
082. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - When we were at war
083. Russian folk choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky - And who knows
084. Lyudmila Nikolaeva - Oh, why this night
085. Maria Mordasova - Enthusiasm
086. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - You are my fallen maple
087. Russian folk choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky - Along the street
088. Anna Litvinenko - Golden-domed Moscow
089. Vika Tsyganova - Oh, viburnum blossoms
090. Tamara Sinyavskaya - Katyusha
091. Olga Voronets - One, two, I love you
092. Nadezhda Kadysheva and the Golden Ring Ensemble - Bloomed under the window
093. Evgeniy Nesterenko - Here is a daring troika
094. Ekaterina Shavrina - Luchinushka
095. Lyudmila Nikolaeva - Walks along the Don
096. Irina Maslennikova - Grass-ant
097. Lyudmila Zykina - The Volga flows
098. Olga Voronets - The stitches-paths have grown
099. Anna Litvinenko - There was a carriage at the church
100. Maria Mordasova - Ivanovna
The biography of Marina Devyatova, a performer of Russian songs, began in December 1983. It was then that the future singer was born in the family of People's Artist Vladimir Devyatov, in Moscow. Marina's artistic abilities were manifested already at the age of three. Her childish voice sounded harmonious, the girl felt the tonality and rhythm of the melody. After observing their daughter for a while, the parents decided to send the child to a music school, which was done in 1990, when Marina was 7 years old. Thus, the biography of Marina Devyatova opened its next page.
Studying at a music school
For the full eight years, the young student comprehended the basics of musical science, harmony and solfeggio, and also studied choral conducting. After school, Marina entered the Schnittke School of Music, and four years later continued her studies at the famous Gnesinka, the Academy of Music, where she studied vocals for several years. Musical education allowed the girl to believe in herself and continue to improve herself in the performance of Russian folk songs.
First concerts
In October 2008, the singer Marina Devyatova, whose biography was constantly updated with new pages, organized her first concert, held under the sign of Russian singing traditions. The success was overwhelming, after the concert the young singer decided to devote herself entirely to Russian folk song and the study of folklore. And in March 2009, the biography of the singer Marina Devyatova was marked by another event that excited the girl to the core, she received an invitation to participate in a reception organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in honor of Queen Elizabeth of England and her entire family.
Solo albums
Exactly one and a half years later, Marina presented her own program, with the ingenuous title "I'll go, I'll go out," at the Moscow Variety Theater. Then her album "I Didn't Think, I Didn't Guess" was released. Critics unanimously suggested that Marina Devyatova neither thought nor wondered that Russian songs performed by her would receive such wide popularity. And when at the end of 2011 Marina's next album entitled "I am happy" was released, no one had any doubts that the singer, by and large, found herself and would continue to develop in the field of Russian folk song.
Overseas concerts
Marina regularly visits various countries of the world with concerts, and she is already considered the "ambassador" of Russian culture. At the same time, the biography of Marina Devyatova develops in a given direction and new creative pages appear in it. The singer loves to work with children's groups, talented guys add a sonorous note to her performances, and Marina is just happy from this, like her little assistants. She is also assisted in her tours by a Russian folklore group, the Young Dance show-ballet, which includes professionally trained dancers who are proficient in the technique of primordial Russian dance.
Religious beliefs
The biography of Marina Devyatova, in addition to her creative pages, contains information about the singer's religious beliefs. By her own admission, Marina is a Hare Krishna woman. Being a vegetarian, the singer tries to convey her beliefs to every person with whom fate brings her in one way or another. Marina Devyatova, among other things, with difficulty, but finds time to practice yoga, which, according to her assurances, is the key to physical and mental health.
Today Buranovskie Babushki is incredibly popular. This is easy to explain. People are close to sincere, sincere performance of folk songs. We decided to tell you about other, no less wonderful, but less famous folklore performers from the Russian provinces.
"Aliyoshnye" songs of the village of Plekhovo
A striking feature of the musical culture of the village of Plyokhovo, Sudzhansky District, Kursk Region, are "alileshnye" songs performed to the accompaniment of dancing, a developed tradition of instrumental playing, specific choreographic genres - tanks (ritual dance) and karagodes (round dances).
Local tunes that made Plyokhovo famous all over the world - "Timonya", "Chebotukha", "Father", "Hot to Plow" - are performed by an ensemble with a unique set of instruments: kugikly (Pan's flute), horn (zhaleika), violin, balalaika.
The performing style of the Plyokhovites is distinguished by the richness of improvisation and complex polyphony. Instrumental music, singing and dance are inseparable components of the Plyokhov tradition, which all true masters possess: good singers often know how to play the kugikles, while violinists and horn players sing with pleasure - and all, without exception, dance deftly in karagode.
In instrumental performance there are traditional rules: only women play on kugikls; on the horn, violin, accordion - only men.
"Oh, what a marvel this is." Karagodnaya song on Maslenitsa performed by residents of the village of Plyokhovo
Suffering in the village of Russian Trostyanka
The song tradition of the village Russkaya Trostyanka of the Ostrogozhsky district of the Voronezh region is distinguished by a loud chest timbre of female voices, sounding in the upper register of male voices, colorful polyphony, a high level of performing improvisation, the use of special singing techniques - "kiks", "drops" (specific short outbursts of voice in another , usually high case).
The genre musical and folklore system of the village includes calendar, wedding, lingering, round dance, game songs. A significant place in the repertoire of local residents is occupied by ditties and suffering. They could be performed as a solo accordion or balalaika (Matanya, Semyonovna, Lady) or in chorus without instrumental accompaniment (I begin to sing suffering, Puva, puva).
Another feature of the song tradition of the village of Russkaya Trostyanka is the presence of special spring songs sung from Krasnaya Gorka to Trinity. Such songs, marking the season, are the drawn-out "After the forest, the forest, the nightingale and the cuckoo salted", "We had a good summer in the forest."
Lingering song "My nightingale, nightingale" performed by the folklore ensemble "Krestyanka" from the village of Russkaya Trostyanka, Ostrogozhsky district, Voronezh region
Ballads of Dukhovshchinsky district
Lyric songs are one of the dominant genres in the song tradition of the Dukhovshchinsky region. In the poetic texts of these songs, the emotional states and emotional experiences of a person are revealed. There are even ballads among the plots. In the melodies of lyric songs, exclamation-cliché and narrative intonations are combined, expressive chants play an important role. Songs are traditionally timed to calendar periods (summer, winter) and individual holidays (Maslenitsa, Spirit Day, patronal holidays), autumn-winter gatherings, and seeing off to the army. Among the features of the local performing tradition are the characteristic timbre and special performing techniques.
The lyrical song "The girls were walking" performed by P.M. Kozlova and K.M. Titova from the village of Sheboltaevo, Dukhovshchinsky District, Smolensk Region
Lamentations in the village of Kukushka
The village of Kukushka in the Perm Territory is like a reserve of Permian Komi traditional singing. The area of \u200b\u200bspecialization of the ensemble members is singing art, traditional dances, dances and games, folk costume. Typical for the nomadic Permian Komi, "massive", timbre-intense, "filled" ensemble singing acquires special brightness and intense emotionality when performed by Kukushan songwriters.
The ensemble includes the inhabitants of the village of Kukushka, connected with each other by family, kinship, and neighborhood ties. The band members collect all genres of the local song tradition: lingering, lyrical Komi and Russian songs, dance, game, round dance songs, wedding ceremony songs, spiritual poems, ditties and choruses. They have a tradition of lamentation, they know children's folklore repertoire, fairy tales and lullabies, as well as dance, dance, play forms of local folklore. Finally, they preserve and reproduce local ritual and holiday traditions: the old wedding ceremony, the rite of seeing off to the army, commemoration of the dead, Christmas games and Trinity meadow festivities.
Dance song ("yukktan") "Basuk nylka, volkyt yura" ("Beautiful girl, smooth head") performed by an ethnographic ensemble from the village of Kukushka, Kochevsky district, Perm region
Karagodnye songs of Ilovka
Traditional songs of the South Russian village of Ilovka, Alekseevsky District, Belgorod Region, relate to the song style of the Voronezh-Belgorod borderland. The musical culture of Ilovka is dominated by lingering broad-singing songs and round dance (karagodnye) songs with dance crossed.
In the singing tradition of the village, signs of the South Russian style are also clearly manifested: an open, bright voice, the use of high registers for men and low registers for women in joint singing, the influence of the style of round dance songs.
There are very few calendar-ritual song forms in the Ilov tradition. The only calendar song that has survived to this day is the carol “Oh, kaleda, from under the forest, forest!”, Which is sung in many voices. There are few and seasonally timed songs, among them one can note the Trinity round dance "My universal wreath".
Round dance song "My all-inclusive wreath" performed by residents of the village of Ilovka, Alekseevsky district, Belgorod region
Brazhnichanye in Afanasyevsky district
Residents of the villages of the Kirov region remember, love and carefully preserve local singing traditions.
Lyric songs form one of the most important parts of the region's cultural heritage. There is no special term for the genre of lyric songs in the Afanasyevsky district of the Kirov region. Most often, such songs are characterized as long, drawn-out, heavy. In the stories of the performers, they are also mentioned as ancient, since they were sung in earlier times. The names are widespread, associated with the absence of a song to date (simple songs) or with their belonging to the holidays (holiday songs). In some places, memories of singing certain lyrical songs while being sent off to the army have been preserved. Then they are called soldiers.
Lyric songs here, as a rule, were not confined to certain life situations: they sang "when it comes." Most often they were sung during field work, as well as on holidays, by both women and men: "He who wants to, he sings."
An important place in tradition was occupied by beer festivals, when guests were drinking. The participants in the feast made folds - each brought honey, mash or beer. After sitting for an hour or two with one owner, the guests went to another hut. Lyric songs were necessarily sounded at these festivities.
Lyric song "Cool mountains are merry" performed by P.N. Varankina from the village of Ichetovkiny, Afanasyevsky district, Kirov region
Schedrovki in the village of Kamen
The song tradition of the Bryansk region is characterized by the dominance of wedding, round dance and late lyric songs. Wedding, round dance, lyrical and calendar songs are still popular in the village of Kamen. The calendar cycle is represented here by the genres of the Yuletide period - generosity and songs that accompanied the driving of a goat, and Shrovetide songs performed during the Maslenitsa festivities.
The genre that is most often found in Starodubsky district is wedding songs. One of the few "living" genres today is lyrical songs. Local singers believe that they have undeniable beauty, they say: "Beautiful songs!"
Wedding song "Oh mother-in-law was waiting for the supper" performed by residents of the village of Kamen, Starodubsky district, Bryansk region
Folklore groups - the flavor of any event!
Are you preparing for a wedding, anniversary, concert, corporate party or other significant event for you? Today, no celebration can be complete without music and entertainment. And correctly selected music becomes the main guarantee of the success of any holiday!
But here a dilemma arises - how to please all guests and those present, different in age, status, sex, musical preferences. And we have found such a universal solution for ourselves - to organize a performance of Russian folk performers. Probably, it is difficult to find such a person who would not be a connoisseur of traditions, would not respect folk art and would not be interested in history. In addition, folklore always carries an interesting semantic load, perfectly conveys the experiences and joys of ordinary people, and the instrumental accompaniment will not leave anyone indifferent. That is why the performance of a Russian folk song ensemble will be the best solution for an event of any format.