Black Sea Cossack Choir

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Black Sea Cossack Choir
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Seat: GermanyGermany Cologne
Founding: 1938
re-establishment: 1992
Resolution: 1967
Genus: Cossack choir
Founder: Boris Ledkovsky
Head : Peter Orloff
Website : schwarzmeerkosakenchor.de

The Black Sea Cossacks Choir is an established in 1938 in Germany KosakenChor .

history

1938-1967

After the First World War , Cossack choirs emerged outside of Russia, cultivating the songs of their homeland with its wealth of melodies. The first conductor and founder of the Black Sea Cossack Choir was Boris Ledkovsky (1894–1975), who led the choir together with Nikolai S. von Orloff (1900–1990), who emigrated from Russia to Lemgo during the October Revolution in 1917 . Orloff was a Protestant clergyman and also founded the "Russian Brotherhood" in Lemgo.

Under the direction of Orloff, the choir completed Europe-wide tours , performed mainly in churches, was also a synodal choir of the Russian Orthodox Church in Germany and also gave concerts under the patronage of the Evangelical Church's Inner Mission. There was also a collaboration with the Reichs-Rundfunk in Berlin, the choir achieved worldwide fame with its Russian and Ukrainian Cossack songs.

In 1951 Ledkovsky emigrated to the USA with some of the choir's singers, where he founded a choir of the Russian Orthodox Church. Since then, the Black Sea Cossacks have been under the sole patronage of "Brother Aid" and its managing director Nikolai Orloff. This appointed Andrej Scholuch as musical director. He was formerly director of the Ural Cossack Choir, which was dissolved in 1940 and later re-established .

In 1955, Sergej Horbenko, formerly conductor of the Kiev Opera and professor at the Kiev University of Music, took over the musical direction. During this time there was a split in the choir when Andrej Scholuch founded his second Ural Cossack choir with some singers from the Black Sea Cossacks. The members of the ensemble in the 1950s also included Ivan Rebroff and Orloff's son Peter Orloff , who sang in the Black Sea Cossack Choir for ten years from the age of 14.

Due to health restrictions, Horbenkos conducted the choir from 1960 to 1962, initially his new deputy Leonid Dorojynski, he was followed by the former conductor and founder of the Volga Cossacks Nikolai Tripolitoff, who also included the dance elements of Russian folk music. At that time, the Black Sea Cossacks almost always performed at secular concerts with several dancers and also with a bayan (Russian accordion). Tripolitoff led the choir until 1967.

At the end of the 1960s, Nikolai Orloff decided to stop the active activity of the choir. In the 1950s and 1960s, extensive tours and numerous recordings took place on a regular basis. After the choir was dissolved in 1967, various recordings in particular ensured that the music and the name of the Black Sea Cossack Choir lived on in the 1970s and 1980s.

After the re-establishment from 1990

After Nikolai Orloff's death in 1990, his son Peter Orloff , who had already participated in the Black Sea Cossack Choir in 1958, succeeded him when the choir was re-established. He was initially supported by Toma Pitkov, chief conductor of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Sofia , who also gave several concerts at La Scala in Milan . At the end of 1996 Toma Pitkov resigned due to reasons of age and handed Orloff the belt of the Cossack leader and thus the sole management during a concert at the Classic open air Hoppegarten in Berlin.

Orloff gathered around him consistently trained opera singers from the Black Sea, Russia and the Ukraine, such as the "Artist of the Russian People", baritone Vitali Alekseenko, the "Artist of the Ukrainian People" tenor Wladimir Kuzmenko († 2018), the "Honored Artists the Ukraine ”tenor Oleg Kulyeshov and soprano Igor Ishchak as well as the Bulgarian bass Stefan Arininskiy. Other well-known Bulgarian choir members were tenor Noy Nikolov and bassist Ivan Petroff. Today the choir is accompanied by the instrumentalists Ilya Kurtev ( bayan ), Irina Kripakova ( domra ) and Slava Kripakov (double bass balalaika ).

Since 1993 the concerts have mostly taken place with Orloff's personal participation. The choir has also made numerous television appearances and produced sound recordings, working together with other well-known artists. For Helmut Lotti's album "From Russia With Love" (2004) he worked as an accompanying choir. In 2020 the choir's first concert in collaboration with the Plovdiv Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Nayden Todorov took place in the Limburg City Hall.

The album “Teure Heimat” reached number 2 in the official sales charts of the GfK Top 10 Folk Music in May 2019 and made it into the top 20 in this category in the annual evaluation. In December 2019, the album entered the GfK Top 100 Album Charts for the first time and placed there several times in 2019 and 2020.

Musical director

  • 1938–1950: Boris Ledkovsky
  • 1950–1954: Andrej Scholuch
  • 1955–1959: Sergej Horbenko
  • 1959–1962: Leonid Dorojynski
  • 1962–1967: Nikolai Tripolitoff
  • since 1993: Peter Orloff (until 1995 together with Toma Pitkov)

Discography (selection)

Albums until 1990

  • 1958: The Cossacks. Label Vox (6)
  • 1962: The Black Sea Cossacks sing. Direction: Leonid Dorojinsky, Discophon Schallplattengesellschaft, Harmonia Mundi , HMAC 30633; HM 30633
  • 1963: The most beautiful chants from Holy Russia. Aladin, LA 25302
  • 1972: Ivan Rebrov, Boris Rubaschkin, Original Black Sea Cossack Choir, Intercord , 28 514-8Z / 1-3; F 556 AC

Unknown date of publication

  • Black Sea Cossack Choir. Head: Andrej Scholuch, Columbia , SEGW 21-7813
  • Kalinka, Russian Folk Songs. Michael Minsky , Black Sea Cossack Choir. Billant Classics, 92341
  • The Black Sea Cossack Choir. Head Nikolai Tripolitoff, Label Saphir, 701-05 SB; E 701/8
  • From The Steppes of Russia With Love, Michael Minsky, The Wolga Balalaika Orchestra, The Choir Of The Black Sea Cossacks. Liz records, 501
  • Black Sea Cossacks. The Black Sea Cossacks sing. Black Sea Cossack Choir, conducted by Sergey Herbenko, Label Almathea, AM 11 520
  • Mother Russia. Russian folk songs and dances. Balalaika Orchestra Fedor Astachow, Black Sea Cossacks, Europe , E 192

Albums from 1993

  • 1995: Peter Orloff and the Original Black Sea Cossack Choir. MCP Records
  • 1996: Peter Orloff and the Black Sea Cossack Choir. "Home, that's called Damoj". MCP Sound & Media
  • The story of a legend - anniversary edition: 4CD box, EAN 9002986142850
  • The big 4-CD box for the concert. 4CD box, EAN 9002986142829
  • From Kiev to St. Petersburg. 2 CD box, EAN 9002986709855
  • Cossack Classics. EAN 9002986709886
  • A star shines. Festive Christmas concert. 2 CD box, Aladin Records, EAN 9002986901211
  • Wolga song. EAN 9002986190875
  • This song is only for you (can only be ordered online via TROJA)
  • 2019: Teure Heimat - The Gold Edition: 5CD Box, Telamo, EAN 4053804313346

Filmography

  • Christmas concert, DVD, EAN 9002986633112
  • Wolgalied, DVD, EAN 9002986190875

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c Stephan Imming: The Peter Orloff story. In: Schlagerprofis.de. January 26, 2019, accessed on July 6, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c More voices in Bad Berleburg. In: Siegener Zeitung. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Peter Orloff & Black Sea Cossack Choir. In: Stadtanzeiger. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Biographical compilations, individuals and families, individuals: newspaper clippings on Nikolai Orloff, founder of the Russian Brothers Aid. In: Archive stock S 829 (2015/022). Lemgo City Archives, accessed on July 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Uwe Kaminsky, Ulrike Winkler: To serve under compulsion: Studies on foreign workers in the Evangelical Church and deacons in the Rhineland during the Second World War . Rheinland-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7927-1855-1 ( google.de [accessed on July 6, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Russian soul in the Schneeberg Church, guest performance of the Black Sea Cossacks. In: Church Chemnitz: News from Chemnitz and the region. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c russian-records.com. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Critic for Life. In: Mitteilungen für alle Tonbandfreunde, Issue 16, 1958, page 16. BASF, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ ROCM Music About Choir (English). Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Ural Cossack Choir: History. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Stephan Imming: The Peter Orloff story. In: Schlagerprofis.de. January 26, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 (German).
  13. ^ Original Black Sea Cossack Choir - The Black Sea Cossacks sing. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  14. ^ Ensemble. In: wolga-kosaken.de. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH: Interview with Peter Orloff: Real feelings are not kitschy - Gießener Anzeiger. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  16. ↑ The Story of a Legend. In: Merkur.de. September 28, 2009, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  17. ^ Bavarian State Opera: Kuzmenko Vladimir. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  18. ^ After death: Black Sea Cossack Choir catches up on appearance. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Evangelical Church Brück »“ World Tour of Melodies ”with Ilya Kurtev & friends and guest star Igor Ishchak. Retrieved on July 10, 2020 (German).
  20. ↑ a b Vocal Black Sea Cossack Choir in Hausen. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  21. ^ Marl Aktuell / Sonntagsblatt im Vest »Black Sea Cossacks with Peter Orloff in Marl. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Josef Kohlmaier Hall | Limburg City Hall - detailed view. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  23. ↑ smago! presents ...: The "Top 10 Folk Music Final Evaluation" (May 2019)! In: smago.de. smago, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Andy Tichler: "OFFICIAL GERMAN CHARTS" smago! top exclusive: The top 48 (!) of the year “Folk Music”! smago, accessed June 13, 2020 .
  25. ↑ GFK Charts. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .