Mikhail Kruglov, sings this classic Russian folk song with the Valaam Monastery Choir in this 2022 performance, descending to a contra B flat at the end.
Nothing like a good Russian men’s chorus to give you goosebumps. I still remember the words from when I had Russian class in high school in the early 1970s. Beautiful.
My brother has a natural tendency to sing all vocal music at least an octave lower. The song of the Volga boatmen is one of his favourites. The neighbours sometimes love to listen to him ⛱. I also love it because it makes my body vibrate from head to toe.
There is a small outdoor rotunda/bandstand in a nearby town, built with some serious acoustics. I wandered in one evening after leaving a restaurant and gave it a try with a bit of the Volga Boatman. The bones in my skull vibrated, my teeth felt like they were going to come loose! Never experienced anything like it before or since!
Je suis française mais je connais cette chanson depuis mon enfance ainsi que d'autres car au début du XX ème siècle beaucoup de russes se sont réfugiés en France et nous français nous avons toujours aimé le folklore russe En ce qui me concerne je suis fan et admiratrice de votre grand regretté Dmitri Hvorostovsky être fabuleux que j'écoute tous les jours depuis des années Un grand salut de Paris ♥️🇨🇵🗼
@@alestane2 effectivement il était très populaire en France dans les années 60 mais je parlais de mon enfance des années 50 ce que je n'avais pas précisé 🗼🇨🇵♥️
A friend of mine, Elizabeth Koch, sang with Dimitry in Chicago, USA, it was as close to heaven as I will ever get. He was so handsome but his voice was sooooo beautiful!
Wow! Purity of voices and harmony!! The bass - as a voice and as a Man (his height) - rises above the entire song. I listened and imagined Repin’s painting “Barge Haulers on the Volga” before my eyes. Incomparable performance! Bravo to the performing team!
It's too bad this human voice belongs to a dedicated Communist! If i am wrong then forgive me but don't believe the Russian government would let ANYONE travel the country as freely as these men do!
We sang it like this: Yo ho heave ho Yo ho heave ho So pull together Onward still we go! I felt it was the most serious song in the world, and very sad.
Mir geht es auch so, daß mich dieses Lied und die Stimmen der Kosakenchöre tief berührt und mir durch und durch geht. Der eine sagt wegen Schamanentum, der zweite summt es einfach so, ich nun bin durch und durch Christ, es ist egal, diese Musik berührt in ganz tiefen Schichten und ich bin den russischen Sängern sooooo dankbar, daß sie uns Menschen dieses Erbe weiter überliefern. Wer hören kann mag hören. Danke von Herzen. Und liebe Grüße aus Taiwan.
I took Russian as my language requirement and Professor Gregory, the teacher, had been a professional singer before moving to the US. Every Friday was singing day and this was the first song we learned. That was in 1971 and i can still sing this song.
I learned that song back in the early 40s from my grandfather, Mikhail. I still sing it from time to time; I remember the words but not their meaning. The last time I heard the language and spoke it was when grandpa came out to visit us when I was 12. It was the last time I spoke Russian.
Greetings to you! This is the song of the Volga boatmen (these were peasants in tsarist Russia who lived and worked on the Volga and they dragged barges along the river by force of their hands). The song is almost without words (in the sense that it does not tell any story), it is rather such a rhythmic motif that boatmen cheer themselves up when they do very hard work - hey, let's hoot, hey, let's do it again, hey, come on! The main point, of course, is in the melody and performance - they convey the heavy share of people who have a very difficult and difficult life! I hope that it was possible to explain. Good luck to you!))
You can see a recent singing of his, search "Тебе поем. Из Милость мира (№5). Композитор: М. Азовских. Солист: А. Гусев." or "youtu . be / KCohGpd3Ubg" without spaces
Das hat mein Vater gesungen, ich erinnere mich ganz früh in der Kindheit. Energie springt ohne mein zutun aus meinen Händen und es ist wie eine Herzens Brücke zu Russland und hört nicht auf. Gänsehaut. Eine Urgrossmutter war Schamanin und Heilerin...über Vaters Seite habe ich das ebenfalls....
I used to hum this song as a kid all the time. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out where I picked up from. Every once in awhile I’d catch myself humming it but with no clue about it. I could never find it online. RU-vid just recommended it. I still don’t know where I picked up from. Okay mystery sort of solved.
This melody was in my very first Piano book..... The accompanying lyrics were... yo yo heave oh, so yo yo heave oh, so pull together forward still we go😊
I learned this song in junior high school in Japan. They used to teach songs from around the world. At that time, we sang this song in Japanese, nowhere near like this, but I could imagine how it was supposed to sound, and this is exactly how I had imagined! It brings me back to my school days, at the same time inspires me to think of the country and the people I’ve never seen.
There is a Japanese version of this song? I don't recall hearing of one in other than Russian and English. Can you find one on RU-vid I could listen to?
@@incumbentvinyl9291 There are few different people/groups singing this. I will give you two links for two different people/groups. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ovCM1tkWoVk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D-Kqu6FxXNk.html
I remember as a child I used to look forward to a friend of my parents visiting our home because his deep voice used to make things vibrate , even the radiators! You could also feel it in your body, it was a very pleasant feeling. He wasn't a singer though, he was an engineer!
Gyerekként énekkarban énekeltem ezt a mélyen megrázó dalt. Így férfi kórussal még jobban megrázó, szinte látom a súllyal megrakott hajókat vontató meggyötört éhes ember tömeget. ❤❤❤
@@user-lq7cl1im3j вот именно, что,, картина"! То же, что,, картина" ( не помню что то,, дети везут воду в бочке зимой") нашли ребенка больного рахитом перед смертью и поместили в центр сюжета! Типа,, режим губит детей"! Маму этого ребенка пускали в галерею потом бесплатно, она плакала перед картиной и молилась за упокой его души, что привлекало посетителей. На самом деле этот мальчик никогда не возил воду в бочке, тем более зимой, потому, что очень болел.
Harmonizing is explosive! Song of my childhood in Northern Canada & I am not Russian but my father, learned this song in WW11 when Russia was our ally and help end the 3rd Reich! He would play his violin and accordion and sing this song in Russian! He was in the RCAF/USAF - a thank you to Russia 🇷🇺 💚
Großartig Millionen von Menschen umgebracht…mehr als Tote im 1, und 2. Weltkrieg… nun der KGBPutin auch noch Krieg in der Ukraine… leider auch ein idiotisches Volk das dies mitmacht. 🤢🤮
A basso profundo who is also a very big guy is very effective, since his throat and chest resonate deeply, as well. An extreme example was André Roussimoff, aka Andre The Giant. Because of his IMMENSE size, his voice sounded like a record played at slow speed (you youngsters out there ask your daddy what a "record" is).
