UKRAINIAN MUSIC AND POPULAR UKRAINIAN SONGS BY RUSHNICHOK

CD: The Neighbor Girl
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CD: THE NEIGHBOR GIRL is the second album by ensemble Rushnichok. The ensemble was founded in 2005 by composer, producer and arranger Alexsey Zakharenko AKA Origen and two Ukrainian National Opera House singers: Tanya Lubimenko, who earlier sung for Origen’s new age albums Ave Maria and New Age Opera and Miroslav Grishenko. You can easily guess that their masterly performance is at a high level as well as music and arrangements.

Three songs on this album were specially adapted, arranged and produced in new age manner by Alexsey Zakharenko. These songs are: "If only I have an eagle’s wings", "A song to the hill", "Green leafy grove". So, THE NEIGHBOR GIRL can be described as Ukrainian folk music meets pop and new age. Hope you will enjoy all the beauty of the Ukrainian songs while listening NEIGHBOR GIRL. It is always a pleasure to touch something harmonious and nice, right?

CD: Nightingales of the Ukraine

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CD: Nightingales of the Ukraine
The soloist of Origen Tanya Lubimenko and Miroslav Grishenko, laureates of the first prize of the All Ukrainian music contest, will show you all the beauty of the Ukrainian folk music and Ukrainian songs and prove that Ukrainians are one of the most singing nation in the world. So, you understand that their masterly performance is at a high level. That’s why this CD is meant for those listeners who love to listen a beautiful and skilful singing. And here there’s much to be heard. Conclusion: If you want to show somebody all the beauty of the Ukrainian music - then this CD will be a great example.

Ukrainian Christmas Carols
Russian Christmas Music

Ukrainian folk music by Drevo

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TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN ETHNIC MUSIC

CD: Forgotten Songs of Ukrainians

This music is vanishing away. Unique authentic music recordings made at the end of the last century during folklore research expeditions on both banks of Dneper River in Kiev District of Ukraine.
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CD: Traditional Ukrainian Wedding Music

This CD represents traditional Ukrainian wedding ceremony and includes both instrumental wedding music and traditional wedding songs for different parts of wedding ceremony such as : bride dress up; farewell to parents; fiancé arrival; songs for newly wedded cortege; drinking and wedding dance songs and instrumental music.
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FEATURED ALBUMS

TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN LYRIC AND LOVE SONGS
by Various Artists

The musical tradition of Poltava region occupies a special place in Ukrainian musical heritage because of its amazing polyphonic vocal harmonies. The main feature of lyrical and love songs of Poltava region is their unique coloring and dramatic expression. The singers often say: “We are crying when singing”.

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Ukrainian Christmas Carols and New Year Songs

In pagan times the Slavic Christmas music- Kolyadkas and Shchedrivkas (Traditional Christmas carols in Ukraine and Russia) were a component of sacramentals related with New Year Day and vernal equinox. Later, during the time of the Christianization of Old Russia from Bizantine, Kolyadkas and Shchedrivkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) became a symbol of Christmas time and other biblical dates and events. Obviously, such reassess of function has served as the reason of a semantic and stylistic variety of Ukrainian Christmas carols, represented on the disk.
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UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS CAROLS
by Kyiv Chamber Choir

Ukrainian Christmas traditions may be considered among the richest in the world. They reflect achievements of a greater than five thousand year old culture, impressive in the musical and contextual diversity of its songs, and in the number of its carols and epiphany carols, a number that is impossible to ascertain. In every Ukrainian village tens or hundreds of original Christmas songs arose, inasmuch as all of Ukraine sang incessantly throughout the festivities from Christmas through to the Epiphany (from the evening of the 6th to the 19th of January, by the new calendar).
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