Ukrainian National Honoured Academic Folk Chorus named G. Veryovka. Vesnyankas from Different Regions of Ukraine. Expedition Records.

Ternopil, Vinnytsya, Zakarpattya, Chernigiv, Rivne regions – here is the geography of expedition records from funds of Veryovka Choir represented here. These records were made by Vasyl and Maria Pylypchak during 1980-2007 – and there even are songs of Ukrainian migrants from Poland. However, this is not the main thing. And the main thing is the theme of this collection. Spring as such has its own powerful magic – this, we believe, everybody has noticed. And, thus, folk songs of spring ceremonies are charged with this energy up to the top – to feel this, one only needs to listen to one vesnyanka, any. Well, and here there are more than thirty of them, so different, so beautiful and strong, so – real... And the issue is even not that the disc represents exactly authentic performance – the issue is about the words: listen to them attentively. These are formulas in which life and death, sorrow and joy of not just a person – of the entire universe – are encoded...

As the disc contains field recordings – clear, not all of the tracks can boast their high quality, and we should warn you about it. However, we have decided to offer this material on the web site, as it, sure, will be interesting for lots of fans of the Ukrainian song.