Farewell to a Slavic Girl
Proshchaniye Slavryanki
Ey, ukhnem!
Kudeyar
Da ispravitsya molitva moya
Vsekh skorbyashchikh radost'
Oy to ne vecher
Snezhochtki
Reve ta Stogne
Oy tam za Dunajem
Gutsulka Ksenya
Revukha
Dontzy molodtsy
Weeping willows have murmured
Temnaya noch'
Kon'
Podmoskovnie Vechera

Ensemble Trifon
Aleksander Trifonov, direction

The collection of songs included on this very record is not meant as an anthology, even the rough one. It is no more than a tiny window letting us see the depths of the Russian soul. Although all of the songs bear a distinctive folk character they were createdin towns by enlightened authors transforming traditional chant in their own way. As a result these songs were closely related to European canon and became extremely popular outside the country; the exotic phrase of the melody and the unparalleled type of emotionality have fascinated the world for over two hundred years.