EI, UKHNEM!
Created on 17/07/2008Latest update on 13/12/2023
Artist: G.A. Kazachenko
Author: traditional
Label: Zonophone
Year: 1903
Leader of Choir and Orchestra in St. Petersburg. Title means: Hey, Come On! Worksong of the boatmen (Burlaks) along the Volga river, dramatically depicted by painter Ilya Repin in 1873. First collected in 1866 by Mili Balakirev, leader of 'The Five', a handful of composers from St. Petersburg, trying to keep Russian art clean from European influences. (Some things never change...) The other four were César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin, who adapted the melody for piano (1870s).
Covers:
- 1905:
Alexander Glazunov [part of his 6th Symphony]
- 1917:
Alexander Siloti [for Gramophone; pianist, conductor, composer, agent and Rachmaninoff's cousin]
- 1917:
Igor Stravinsky [own version; considered to become the new hymn in a new Russia]
- 1922:
- 1922:
Fiodor Chaliapin [arrangement for bass and bariton following Koeneman's but crediting himself]
- 1922:
Manuel de Falla [as Canto De Los Remeros Del Volga, as a tribute to all Russians in exile]
- 1924:
Russian Imperial Art Quartet [as Song Of The Volga Boatmen on Berliner]
- 1925:
Cincinnati Symphony Orch. [idem, conducted by Stravinsky]
- 1930:
Walt Disney [in Mickey Mouse film The Chain Gang]
- 1938:
Freddie Rich [idem]
- 1938:
Glenn Miller [idem in film Balalaika; n°1 US in '41]
- 1939:
- 1941:
- 1959:
Paul Robeson [all as Song Of The Volga Boatmen]
- 1994:
Leningrad Cowboys [as Volga Boatmen]
