Ukrainian song - Chorea Kozacka LIVE 3, Hymn to Freedom / Хорея Козацька, De libertate

"De Libertate" (with ENGLISH subtitles)
by Chorea Kozacka / Хорея Козацька
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"Concert of Traditional Songs" (Polish: Koncert pieśni tradycyjnych)
Date: 13 September 2017
Venue: Nowy Świat Muzyki, Nowy Świat Str., Warsaw
MUSICIANS / МУЗЫКАНТЫ
Taras Kompanichenko / Тарас Компаніченко
leader, bandura, lead vocals
Iaroslav Krysko / Ярослав Криськоbandura
Cossack drum, vocals
Severyn Danyleiko / Северин Данилейко
basolia, vocals
Serhiy Okhrimchuk / Сергій Охрімчук
Master of the violin
Mykhailo Kachalov / Михайло Качалов
vielle
LYRICS/ ТЕКСТ
Lyrics: Hryhorij Skovoroda / Текст: Григорій Сковорода
Music: Taras Kompanichenko / Музика: Тарас Компаніченко
Что то за вольность? Добро в ней какоє?
Іни говорять, будто золотоє.
Ах, не златоє: єсли сравнить злато
Против вольности, єще оно блато…
О, якби в дурні мені не пошитись,
Щоб без вольности не міг я лишитись.
Будь славен вовік, о муже ізбранне,
Вольности отче, герою Богдане!
English
(translated by Ivonna Nowicka, 6 March 2022)
There is no better and more respectable good
Than freedom.
: Aurea libertatis : [should be: Aurea libertas]
The radiance of freedom.
Aurea libertatis.
What thing is this freedom? What good does it hold?
Some people, they liken freedom to gold.
But no, I don’t think so, I’d much rather say
: that compared to freedom, gold’s just clart and clay. :
: De libertate! De libertate! :
Oh, I do hope life won’t play tricks on me
and deprived of freedom I won’t have to be.
Our Father of Freedom, worthy of good fame,
: Oh Bohdan*, our hero, praise be to thy name! :
: Oh, famous Hetman! ... :
What thing is this freedom? What good does it hold?
Some people, they liken freedom to gold.
But no, I don’t think so, I’d much rather say
: that compared to freedom, gold’s just clart and clay. :
: De libertate! Oh, golden freedom! :
: ...
No other source of happiness is necessary. :
: ...
No other source of happiness is necessary. :
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE
The Ukrainian ensemble Chorea Kozacka or the Cossack Choreia was founded in 2005 in Kiev by Taras Kompanichenko. He has also become the leader of the ensemble. Chorea Kozacka plays early Ukrainian and Ruthenian music, reconstructing old songs from the late Middle Ages and the Rennaissance and Baroque periods.
Their source of inspiration and information are manuscripts and old prints. One such precious book, the "Chorea Kozacky” found in 1640 in musical archives of Bratislava, Slovakia, has become the source of the ensemble's name.
Chorea Kozacka calls its concerts musical journeys through the land of the ancestors. The ensemble is well know in its native Ukraine, it has also toured Poland, Switzerland and Germany.
In this particular concert in Warsaw, two other ensembles specialising in the Ukrainian tradition performed with and without Chorea Kozacka. These were:
the Kapela Serhija Ochrimczuka or the Traditional Band Of Serhiy Okhrimchuk from Kiev and
the Polish teenage group Krajka (please read: /krayka/) from the city of Przemyśl.
THE LEADER
The leader, Taras Kompanichenko, is a painter and art historian turned musician. He plays the kobza, bandura and lute and does musicological research. He was also actively involved in the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005 and the Euromaidan Uprising of 2013-2014 in the Ukraine.
LINKS / ПОСИЛАННЯ
on YT: / @choreakozacky
on FB: Хорея-Козацька-173908926023379
on Wikipedia: uk.wikipedia.o...
(in Ukrainian)
en.wikipedia.o...
about the concert: nasze-slowo.pl...
(in Polish)
on Bohdan Khmelnytsky: en.wikipedia.o...
Copyright:
Ivonna Nowicka