Ukrainian song - Chorea Kozacka LIVE 7, The Zaporozhian Army / Хорея Козацька, Войска запорожского

"The Zaporozhian Army" (ENGLISH subtitles) / Войска запорожского воинъ знаменитій
by Chorea Kozacka / Хорея Козацька
"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, lead vocals, bandura
Iaroslav Krysko / Ярослав Криськоbandura
lead vocals, Cossack drum
Severyn Danyleiko / Северин Данилейко
lead vocals, basolia
Serhiy Okhrimchuk / Сергій Охрімчук
Master of the violin, vocals
Mykhailo Kachalov / Михайло Качалов
vielle, vocals
LYRICS/ ТЕКСТ
Lyrics: Hryhorii Hrabianka (from his famous Litopis) / Текст: Григорій Грабянка (1666 - 1738) - з його літопису
Music: St. Dimitry of Rostov (Tuptalo) / Музика: Димитрій (Туптало) (1651-1709)
: Войска запорожского воїн знаменитий
Воoружен, бодрствуєт Отчізну хранити. :
А ще і врагов, коїх не зрить пред собою
Бо баче оружіє готово до бою.
Супостатів зупинять, хоч вони і сильні
Забаганки їхні всі розбива огидні.
Бо тримає собі ціль - предваряти злому
І не хоче підлягать на землі нікому.
Діло має пастуха пильного такого
Щоб од стада відганять вовка навісного.
Войска запорожского воїн знаменитий
Воoружен, бодрствуєт Отчізну хранити.
English
(translated by Ivonna Nowicka,
15 March 2022)
: The Zaporozhian army’s famed and fearless warrior
Is in arms and keeping watch, guarding his fatherland. :
He’s ready to oppose foes who come out of the night,
Because he keeps his weapons ready for a fierce fight.
He can stop all agressors, even most savage and strong.
He can curb their appetites, keep them from doing wrong.
Because he has this one aim - to counteract evil
And he won’t be subjected by anyone on Earth.
He’s akin to a shepherd, agile and on alert,
Keen to chase the hateful wolf far away from his herd.
The Zaporozhian army’s famed and fearless warrior
Is in arms and keeping watch, guarding his fatherland.
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 Saint Dimitriy: en.wikipedia.o...
on Hrihorii Hrabianka: uk.wikipedia.o...
(in Ukrainian)
on the source of the lyrics: uk.wikipedia.o...
(in Ukrainian)
Copyright:
Ivonna Nowicka