In the new issue of UNZIP, Albert Tsukrenko talks to poet and illustrator Dina Chmuzh and musician Yevgen Volodchenko (rapper Zheka Kurgan) about their new joint project, the album Kalynova Sopilka. Together, they listen to retro soundtracks from theater performances and films. Audio selection of songs for this issue:

1. H.A.T.L. “Strimholove”
2. Lyubov Argotyuk and Valery Dusanyuk “Ne zabud”
3. Mykola Yakovchenko and Oleksandr Khvylia “Rybalska pisnya” (from the feature film “Lita molodi,” 1958)
4. Anatoliy Gorchynskyi “Bez vas meni tak holodno”
5. Zhanna Kolodub “Lyalka spivaye” (Children's Album for Piano)
6. Oleksandr Taranets, “My Path” (from the film “The Applicant”)
7. “You Won't Catch Me” (from the film “A Strip of Unmowed Wild Flowers”)

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UNZIP — a podcast diving into the archives of Ukrainian music. You will hear host Albert Tsukrenko and his guests on the UnZip podcast searching for answers to questions about our musical identity. Most importantly, they will surprise you with songs found in the archives of Ukrainian Radio.

Zheka Kurgan and Dina Chmuzh on music in theater: from fairy tales to performances and albums. New episode of the Unzip podcast

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1987.

Feature film-concert "Just for fun" with musical performances by leading performers and vocal-instrumental ensembles of Ukrainian pop.

The program includes performances by the quartet "Yavir", VIA "Kobza", artists of the folklore ensemble "Ukrkoncert", instrumental ensemble "Dzherelo".

Ukrainian pop: "Just for fun"

Lviv TV studio. The program "Rosinka" sings" from March 6, 1985 is dedicated to the concert program of the female vocal ensemble "Rosinka" (artistic director — Khrystyna Mykhailiuk).

The program featured the following songs: "Moonlight Road", "Kutochok Rossii", "A Meni v Shchastya Vritsya", "Vse pro Romana", "Kari Ochi", "Oh, I'll Go Up to the Mountain", "Sopilka Zhurylasya", "Pereydi Doru".

"Rosinka" sings, 1985


State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

The film-musical "Smiles of Nychyporivka" is dedicated to the village of Nychyporivka and its inhabitants.

The film features: the pantomime theater "Mimicrychi"; the dance ensemble "Elion"; the Kyiv Music Hall; the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Krayany"; the quartet "Yavir", Nazariy Yaremchuk.

Cast: Mykola Hrynko, Maria Kapnist, Lyudmila Lobza, Halyna Kovhanych, Ivan Popovych, Mykola Poichenko, Nina Ilyina, Yuriy Gusev, Valentin Reus.

Director — Oleg Biyma.

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Film-musical "Smiles of Nychyporivka"

The series “Treasures of the Archive.” The video features songs by Ukrainian composers performed by the Kobza vocal-instrumental ensemble, with Valery Viter as soloist. The songs are: “A Violin Plays on the Street” (1983), “Ask Your Heart” (1981), “By the River, By the Lake” (1982), “Across the River” (1982), “Love Me” (1981).

“Treasures of the Archive”: VIA “Kobza”

State-owned enterprise “Ukrainian Television Film Studio ”Ukrtelevizor," 1983.

The film “Spring Entertainment”: performed by the ensemble “Kobza,” featuring songs by Yevgeny Kovalenko, Nikolai Mozgovoy, Anatoly Pashkevich, Bogdan Yanivsky, and Ukrainian folk songs.

“Spring Entertainment”: VIA “Kobza”

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.

Concert program "Adagio" performed by young performers: guitarist Victoria Zhadko, flutist Vitaly Pshenichny and violinist Gennady Kanayev.

The film featured works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Mauro Giuliani, Manuel de Falla, Stephen Dodgson.

Concert "Adagio": classical works

Lviv Television. Editorial office of literary, artistic and musical programs.

The issue of the program "Kamerton" from May 28, 1999 is dedicated to the work of Bohdan Tsisinsky.

In the concert program: "Song about Lviv", "Spring Distance", "Village Music", "I'll Go to Distant Mountains", "You - My Smile", "Lviv'yanki".

Reference: Bohdan Tsisinsky is a Ukrainian singer, Honored Artist of Pop Art of Ukraine. Known for performing popular and patriotic songs.

Bohdan Tsisinsky sings

Zhytomyr Television, 2003. All-Ukrainian interuniversity festival of original songs "Student Strings" for Student's Day.

On the video: the beginning of the concert, the announcement of the winners and diploma holders of the festival; invited to the stage are the head of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs of the Zhytomyr Regional State Administration Raisa Gula, the rector of the Zhytomyr Pedagogical University, Professor Petro Saukh, the general director of the Zhytomyr Regional Television and Radio Company Viktor Boyko, the head of the student charitable organization "Student Club", the director of the festival Volodymyr Vyhovsky; award ceremony; concert program.

Performers: "Ekhi", "Roza Vitriv", Ruslan Goloshchuk, "Saga", "Eklektika", "Misyats pod presom", "Spolokh", Elina Tantsur, Oksana Kravchuk and Olena Serdechna, "Angel mriy", Vyacheslav Mishchenko, Serhiy Kolyadyuk, Tryzuby Stas, Oleksandr Voitko, Volodymyr Shynkaruk and Natalka Kulinich.

Some of the songs are performed in russian.

The host is Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Volodymyr Shynkaruk.

Festival "Student Strings", 2003

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1991.

The film-concert "Bless, my soul" is dedicated to the performance of choral music in Kyiv Orthodox churches: the Church of Mykola Naberezhny, the Church of St. Andrew, the Church of the Table.

In the program: Oleksandr Koshyts "Holy God", "Only Begotten"; Mykola Leontovych "Our Father", "Let our lips be full"; Artem Vedel "Repentance"; Petro Dinov "The Wise Thief"; Dmytro Bortyansky Concert No. 3 (part one); Domenico Scarlatti "Joyful God".

Works of sacred choral music were performed by: Chamber Choir of the Kyiv Conservatory; Boys' Choir of the Mykola Lysenko Music School; Amateur Male Chapel of Kherson; Choir "Camerata" of Iasi, Romania; Mixed Choir of the City of Tolbukhin, Bulgaria; Choral Chapel of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR; Academic Choir of the Teacher's House of Kyiv; State Honored Academic Choral Chapel of the Ukrainian SSR "Dumka".

Ukrainian choral music

Audio selection of folk songs from the Ukrainian Radio archives:

1.    “Ziidi, ziidi, jasnyi mesyats” (Come down, come down, bright moon) — village of Tersyanka, Novomykolaivsky district, Zaporizhzhia region
2.    “Oi, letila, govorila” (Oh, she flew, she spoke) — village of Svobodne, Volnovaksky district, Donetsk region.
3.    “Oh, you, Hryts, Hryts” — village of Petryky, Horodyshche district, Cherkasy region
4.    “Oh, the carts are creaking” — village of Kruchyk, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region
5.    “From behind, from behind the mountains flew a falcon” — village of Rozumivka, Oleksandrivskyi district, Kirovohrad region
6.    “Oh, there is a high grave in the field” — ensemble “Chervona Kalyna,” village of Lypnyazhka, Dobrovelychkivskyi district, Kirovohrad region
7.    “Oh, from behind the mountains, from behind the mountains” — village of Vasylivka, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region
8.    “The snow has turned white” — village of Yakovenkovo, Balakliya district, Kharkiv region
9.    “Don't Go, Ulan” — village of Petryky, Horodyshche District, Cherkasy Region
10.    “Across the River, Across the Danube” — village of Honorata, Kotovsk District, Odesa Region

The cataloguing of all songs is based on the records in the Ukrainian Radio archive.

The selection was prepared by Radio Culture host Zakhar Davydenko.

A selection of folk music from Radio Culture 

Chernivtsi Television, March 20, 2001. Concert "Celebration of the Native Language" for the International Mother Language Day at the Chernivtsi Olga Kobylyanska Music and Drama Theater.

On the video: women's choir; comments by a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, Honored Journalist of Ukraine Olga Babiy; singer and composer Anatoly Serenchuk; singer from Donetsk region Zoryana Sysoeva; soloist of the regional philharmonic society Ivan Derda, concertmaster Yaroslav Kolotylo; teacher-methodologist, lecturer of Ukrainian language and literature from Crimea Oksana Yemelyanova; bandura band; head of the Chernivtsi branch of the Union of Ukrainian Women Oleksandra Popelyuk.

Hosts — Andriy Tsyganok and Natalya Pidkamin.