GD 228 GROZDANA TRAKIA ENSEMBLE, Plovdiv - authentic folklore songs
Issued: 2000
Style: folklore music
Company: Gega New GD228
19 authentic folklore songs , dances and instrumental music performed by `Trakia` State Ensemble Plovdiv. You will be amazed by the mastery of the professional singers and musicians , performing folk music of their native region-Thracian Plain and other regions in Bulgaria.
During the 1950s musical life in Bulgaria witnessed a phenomenon which opened up a new stage in the development of Bulgarian folk music: the establishment of the first State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances, "Philip Koutev". The phenomenon was quick to win numerous admirers and followers. Similar ensembles uniting the talent of numerous singers and instrumentalists, composers, conductors and choreographers cropped up throughout Bulgaria. And when the art of these ensembles had reached its both national and international triumph, the Trakia Folk Ensemble - Plovdiv emerged, to show that there exist other ways and means of presenting the Bulgarian folklore. Its founders, Prof. Kiril Djenev (one of the leading choreographers in Bulgaria) and Stefan Mutafchiev (a talented composer of non-traditional musical ideas), laid their hopes on the young (the average age of the company is 22 years), the professional training of each of the performers and, first and foremost, on syncretism, the main characteristic of traditional art. Their first stage appearance literally set the audience on fire! Everyone from the ensemble sang, played a musical instrument and danced on the stage. The audience witnessed a true folk show. And it has been so for 25 years now! Although the directors and conductors of the ensemble have changed, the ensemble's young and innovative spirit has been preserved.
The programme of this jubilee album released by Gega New is diverse and selected with much taste. It varies from the deep bow in respect to Stefan Moutafchiev, one of Trakia's founders, through the works of the already established composers Kosta Kolev and Krassimir Kyurkchiiski, to the music of the younger Todor Prashtakov, Tsvetan Tsvetkov, among others. The ensemble's directors, Daniela Djeneva, Tsvetan Tsvetkov and Dimiter Hristov, together with soloists, choir and orchestra represent with mastery and inspiration the different folk regions of the country (Thrace and Strandja, the Rhodope Mountains, the Shoppe region, the Pirin region and North Bulgaria).
"GROZDANA” is a release addressed to all those who love the Bulgarian folk music and is dedicated to the celebration Trakia Folk Ensemble - their 25th anniversary of remarkable artistic achievements!
Contents:
• Radka majka si dumashe
• Snoshti otidoh na izvorci
• Krystev den dojde
• Kalia si zhytva zhyneshe
• Ianka mama si dumashe
• Tri denia gyrmialo
• Bre ovchariu, shiletariu
• Myri buleo
• Prochu se moma Manolka
• Pesen za gajdarcheto
• Ti kat me chuesh da peia
• Oreh se bie, razviva
• Kakvi sme godini dochakali
• Ivan na Donka dumashe
• Myri Irinko
• Lazare, drago li ti e?
• Dobrudzhanskata
• Pripadnala e tymna mygla
• Zaliubi Radka Nikola
• Moma se v gora izgubi
• Pasyl Stoian shilenca
• Izgriala zora Dennica
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