Bards of Russia - representatives of a vast stratum of Russian music and song culture, which has been developed since the early 50-ies of the last century.
Bard, this author and songwriter in one person,consistent in his work. Songs of bards in Russia are distinguished by a variety of genre and style. Someone sings playful ditties, someone tries to touch the romantic feelings of listeners with their songs. Many bards of Russia use the theme of their songs in order to achieve a satirical effect.
Vladimir Vysotsky - People's Artist, Russian Bard
There are performers of the author's song in Russia, whosecreativity, of course, refers to the high art of the song genre. Such bards of the unit, the most famous of them - Vladimir Vysotsky, who deservedly is considered an unsurpassed master of the author's song. Vysotsky possessed a unique gift of reincarnation, many of his songs were written as if on behalf of the character - it could be some inanimate object, an airplane or submarine, a microphone on stage or an echo in the mountains.
The song begins and the character comes alive.Yak - fighter, combat aircraft, lives its own life, participates in an air battle as if by itself, and the pilot only hinders him. And there are many such bright examples, unique songs written in the first person.
Authors' songs of Vysotsky are divided according to the plotfeatured. He has "courtyard", "lyric", "sports", "military". Each song is a masterpiece of poems, put on a simple melody. The talent of the great Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky is unlimited, which is why he has been given a national recognition, and his creativity is immortal.
Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Okudzhava is another outstanding Russianbard, poet and performer of author's songs. He is a vivid representative of the literary beau monde of Russia, composer and director. But the red thread through all the work of Okudzhava was the author's song, which was a part of the poet's life, a way of his self-expression. On the account of Bulat Okudzhava, several brilliant works in the genre of the author's song, the main one of which is the recitative "We need one victory" from the film "Belarusian Railway Station".
Bulat Okudzhava was the first Russian bardwho was allowed to perform with their author songs. This event took place in 1961. The following year, Bulat Shalvovich was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1967, during his trip to France, the bard recorded twenty songs that were published in Paris under the name Le Soldat en Papier. In the seventies, records with songs by Bulat Okudzhava began to appear in the USSR.
Top Bards of Russia
Rosenbaum Alexander - an outstanding Russian bard,a resuscitation doctor, he graduated from the First Medical Institute in Leningrad. I started writing author's songs in 1968 for skits and student performances. Currently, it is one of the most popular Russian bards with an extensive repertoire, is included in the list of bards of Russia - in the top five. In 2005, Alexander Rosenbaum combined deputy duties with concert activities.
Vizbor Yuri - teacher by profession, bard byvocation, mountaineer, skier and journalist. The author of numerous songs about the mountain tops, climbing and rafting on mountain rivers. From the pen of Yuri Vizbor came a cult song of students and all the youth of the 60s "You are my only one." Community "bards of Russia" arose on the initiative Vizbor.
Evgeny Klyachkin, a civil engineer, a poet, a bard,Romantic author of three hundred songs. In 1961, at the age of 17, he wrote his first song "Fog" to the verses of Konstantin Kuzminsky. From that day began the creative path of the Russian bard Eugene Klyachkin. At first, he wrote songs to the poems of Joseph Brodsky and Andrei Voznesensky. The cycle of songs, assembled from romances performed by the characters in the poem "Procession" by I. Brodsky, is still considered the top of the author's song.
Zhanna Bichevskaya, star of art song
Zhanna Bichevskaya - singer, who is calledstar of the author's song. In her work she adheres to the themes of Russian patriotism and the Orthodox faith. In the early seventies, Bichevskaya’s repertoire included Russian folk songs, which she performed in bardic style, accompanied by a seven-string acoustic guitar. In 1973, Zhanna became the prize-winner of the All-Russian variety art contest, and in the following years traveled with concerts all countries of the socialist camp. Later, she repeatedly performed in the Paris Olympia hall at full house.
Alexander Galich - Russian performerauthor's songs of his own, a playwright, screenwriter and poet, was an active member of the "bards of Russia" community. His plays of the early period were staged in Moscow theaters, and "Sailor's Silence", written by Galich in 1958 for the Sovremennik Theater, was released only in 1988 by Oleg Tabakov. At the same time, Alexander Galich began writing songs and performing them to his own accompaniment on a seven-stringed guitar. He took Alexander Vertinsky's performing traditions as the basis of his work - a romance and a poetic narration with a guitar. Poetry Galich in its structure and literary value put it on par with Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Russian author's song became the main direction in the work of Alexander Galich.
Family duo
Nikitin, Sergey and Tatiana - a family duetbards, their music sounds in many films and theatrical performances. The most famous song of Sergei Nikitin - "Alexander" - sounded in the popular film directed by Vladimir Menshov "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears". Nikitin is a physicist by education. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1968 and is a candidate of physico-mathematical sciences. He writes songs, starting in 1962, on verses by Pasternak, Shpalikov, Bagritsky, Voznesensky, Yevtushenko and other Russian poets. In his student years, Nikitin led a quartet of physicists at Moscow State University, and later became the artistic director of the quintet of the physics department, where he met Tatiana Sadykova, who later became his wife.
Soviet bards
All Russian bards of the sixties and seventiesyears can be called "Soviet", because they lived and worked under the Soviet regime. However, this epithet says little about it, the performers of the author's song can not be characterized either by social order or political conditions - these are people of art who are free in their work.
