Videos posted by Mikhail Smirnov, artistic director and founder of Rusian dance and music ensemble Barynya from New York, owner of Barynya Entertainment Booking Agency.
Ensemble Barynya website www.barynya.com
Barynya Entertainment website: www.barynya.com/english.htm
gosh, i cant stand the way she is playing the balalaika. i am not familiar with the instrument, but most instruments can be played in different ways. that incessant vibration is very irritating to my ears !! almost as bad as old country music bringing in the steel guitar, and making all that horrible whining sound. i love the song. the best version i have heard is the ray conniff singers. now ray conniff will sometimes play what i think is referred to as a melodica, which i do like the sound. it sorta sounds like an accordion, to me
This always puts me in mind of the funeral scene, where Zhivago is just a tiny child, and the only thing he gets from his mother after she dies, is her balalaika, which one of the relatives at the funeral says "she could make sound like 2 guitars". One of the most intense scenes in a very intense movie.
What is that multiple strumming technique on Balalaika called? I absolutely adore it - it can be done on guitars too but I really want to know what it's called.
What is that multiple strumming technique on Balalaika called? I absolutely adore it - it can be done on guitars too but I really want to know what it's called.
For the people saying this music resembles Southeast Asia music you’re right!! There’s barely the note “fa” which makes it sound more “Asian” (don’t know if fa is the same music note in English I’m sorry I’m French)
Yes, War and Peace, Book 1, chapter 17, brought me to this video. Something poignant and funny about Russians dancing like the French, which is certainly why Tolstoy included it.
