Russian Music

[Grand_Duchess_Aminta]

Hello dear friends!
I watched one Romanov video where was a beautiful russian ballad. It is called "Russia" and it is performed by Julia. I wonder if anybody knows more about russian ballads and could give me the names of the songs.  I would be very happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIgjaDBKr04
This video is not made by me but I posted this link for you to see, what kind of music I am looking for
Than you.

[Carolath Habsburg]

Gosh...i never saw that video before....so sad! It made me cry


The song was beautiful..i ll look for it to have it in my mp3


About Russian music... This is my favorite. "Moscow Nights"

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHPhFHjn7Q

[Laura Mabee]

Moscow Nights is beautiful, I agree!
My Russ101 class had to sing that for class.

One of my favorite songs is called "Это всё" or "This is it". It's by a band called ДДТ, or DDT.
It's really beautiful, but I can't seem to find a really good version of it on YouTube. This is as close as I can find
Here are Lyrics and the such.

[rosieposie]

That was the first Romanov fan video I had seen and I agree the song is so beautiful.   

[Tatiana Z]

Hello dear friends!
I watched one Romanov video where was a beautiful russian ballad. It is called "Russia" and it is performed by Julia. I wonder if anybody knows more about russian ballads and could give me the names of the songs.  I would be very happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIgjaDBKr04
This video is not made by me but I posted this link for you to see, what kind of music I am looking for
Than you.

This is a Russian song about Imperial Family by  Janna Bitchevskaya


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3-COpojP8

[Carolath Habsburg]

And finally..with a little help of my russian friends i had  Yulia`s "Russia" in mp3. I also had the translation thanks to my friend Pavel


"Crops have not been gathered yet
From your fields,
Your land is striped with roads

The light-brown haired heads
Of your sons
Don’t appear light brown anymore,
But grey

Cloud… A smokey
Cloud of snowstorm
are spreaded from the ground
And from the roads

Let your clear blue sky
Be everywhere I go

Chorus:

You’re my love – Russia
You’re my sorrow – Russia
You’re my fate – Russia
You’re my soul – Russia


Endless, endless forests
Are shivering
Silence, silence
Is throughout
Your land
But I can hear the
Voices of your bottomless rivers
And a drunken drone and
Your men’s delirium
Coming from afar…

Chorus:

Crops have not been gathered yet…
Your land is striped with roads…
The light-brown haired heads…
Don’t appear light brown anymore…

[amartin71718]

It's very... haunting.

[pookiepie]

I don't know if these count as Russian songs but i like them anyway.

Okonchen Put' (End of the Road) by Yul Brynner, one of his gyspy songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=426hAQaQAKM

The Hills of Manchuria by Maxim Troshin, music by I. Shatrov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDgs34wilk

Legend (Legenda in Russian) but in English more searches come up with Crown of Roses. I don't remember who it was written by but it was set to music by Tchaikovsky. It's beautiful and haunting. A lot of searches came up on Youtube but i have no speakers so i don't know if they're any good.

The Crown of Roses (or, The Legend)

When Jesus Christ was yet a child
He had a garden small and wild,
Wherein he cherished roses fair,
And wove them into garlands there.

Now once, as summertime drew nigh,
There came a troop of children by,
And seeing roses on the tree,
With shouts they plucked them merrily.

"Do you bind roses in your hair?"
They cried, in scorn, to Jesus there.
The Boy said humbly, "Take, I pray,
All but the naked thorns away."

Then of the thorns they made a crown,
And with rough fingers pressed it down,
'Til on His forehead, fair and young,
Red drops of blood, like roses sprung.

[Превед]

In the same vein:

Любэ: "Берёзы" - Lyube: "Birches"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQyYidgk-0Y

Отчего так в России берёзы шумят?
Отчего белоствольные всё понимают?
У дорог прислонившись по ветру стоят
И листву так печально кидают.
=
Why do the birches in Russia rustle the way they do?
Why do these white-trunked trees understand everything?
They stand by the roads, swinging in the wind
And sorrowfully drop their leaves.

[TimM]

What lovely music.

[Sanochka]

All of this is beautiful without even hearing it.  I cannot wait to get home from work and follow up on these posts with sound turned on.

[TimM]

You're in for a treat.

[Превед]

Russian version of the Perestroyka & Glasnost / German "Wende" / Fall of the Berlin Wall / End of the Cold War anthem "Wind of Change" by (the German band) The Scorpions, sung by Scorpions singer Klaus Meine in quite bad Russian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPQge1FkqeU

(There is also a German version, by the operatic band Adoro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdanY2Fhiw)

[TimM]

More great music.

[Превед]

Soviet singer Igor Sklyar, who looks like a young Leonardo DiCaprio, singing about going to Komarovo, a seaside resort on the Karelian Isthmus outside St. Petersburg where Peter Carl Fabergé, Mathilda Kschessinska and Anna Vyrubova had dachas before the Revolution, when it was Finnish and known as Kellomäki / Келломяки: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnCkITP6ib0