A Ukrainian Wedding
$11.98 – $19.98
This item will be released October 18, 2024.Cappella Records proudly announces the release of A Ukrainian Wedding, performed by an all-female cast of Cappella Romana.
Ukrainian American folklorist and singer Nadia Tarnawsky leads the women of Cappella Romana with special guest folklorists from Ukraine, Inna Kovtun and Hanna Tishchenko, to perform this unique offering of Ukrainian wedding songs.
The songs sung in preparation for the wedding employ the vocal techniques of village singers, while the chants and choral works sung during the wedding ceremony itself reflect the sublime style more prevalent in church singing.
From the engagement through the crowning of the young couple, the rituals of a traditional Ukrainian wedding are accompanied by songs. Traditionally performed by the women belonging to the families of the young couple, these songs help bring forth good health, prosperity, and many children.
These songs were collected by Nadia Tarnawsky before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, from women often over 80 years old.
- Oh the gates creaked (1:00)
- The goose flew over the mountain (0:55)
- The cuckoo bird flew (1:44)
- Marichka’s mother (1:06)
- Songs of the korovai: God bless – Our oven is laughing – Vasyl’s father (1:16)
- Makers of the korovai (1:47)
- We go to the clear field (0:52)
- Glorious night (1:42)
- Look, mother (1:45)
- The pine is green in both summer and winter (1:47)
- The violets blossomed (1:36)
- My mother lit a candle (2:54)
- The duck swam (2:22)
- On Sunday morning (1:17)
- God, come to us (1:14)
- Blessing for the wedding (2:27)
- My father, my dove (1:48)
- Yakiv Yatsynevych (arr. Tarnawsky): Hail, Mary (1:08)
- Psalm 127 (2:15)
- Prokimen (1:22)
- Oleksander Koshyts (arr. Tarnawsky): Alleluia (2:18)
- (Arr. Koshyts & Tarnawsky): O Most Holy Virgin Mother (3:10)
- Our Father (2:11)
- Dance, Isaiah and troparia (2:06)
- Kyrylo Stetsenko (Arr. Tarnawsky): More honorable than the Cherubim (1:40)
- Hannu Kononen (Arr. Tarnawsky): Many years (1:23)
