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Russian Red Army Choir - Kalinka Kalinka

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

"Kalinka" might be the best-known Russian song of all time. It has been mistaken as being a genuine folksong, but was actually written in 1860 by the composer and folklorist Ivan Petrovich Larionov. Soon it was added to the repertory of a folk choral group, and the rest is history.

The song celebrates a snowball tree, with a speedy tempo and light-hearted lyrics. Singers and dancers many a time get into a frenzied celebration of song and dance while performing this song. The actual content of the song cannot be translated, as it possesses many Russian expressions and words that can hold a double meaning and have no equivalent in other languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinka_(song)

8 Comments

I'd love to see more of this stuff getting sifted instead of the mainstream pop culture songs that everyone knows inside and out. Not that they're in any way subpar to the classical folk songs of each country, but folk music from different countries really is awesome and not something one would normally get to hear.

should be tagged "Leningrad Cowboys"

Unfortunately, this one doesn't allow embedding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIMEMDYxZE.

whoa. had to pull back the faders on this one.

some of the notes the soloist hit, my speakers really didn't care for.

Agreed with Octopussy, it was Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army choir.
This concert was held right in the heart of Helsinki, the other one was held in Berlin. The same Red Army had marched into Finland in the second world war.

The band is from Finland and they are sort of making parody of the Soviet Union! This and the choir singing with them in Sweet Home Alabama is so ironic and so nice.

LOL soldiers wearing wigs in dance frenzie meanwhile the ultra serious conductor is popping a vein on his forehead LOL

However, the song screeches to a halt on the slow parts. Someone needs to make a remix where it gets to have more of that crazy leg kicking dance timesssss!!!

*promote!

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, February 16th, 2008 6:50am PST - promote requested by Fusionaut.

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