Radost CD

About the Radost CD Project

Heirloom. The music comes to us in hazy memories of childhood, awakened by fleeting scents in unfamiliar streets; we hear it in the voices of long-departed and dearly-loved ancestors, resonating through overheard snatches of conversations in immigrant neighborhoods. The music calls to us from our dreams. For 25 years, Radost's mission has been the loving preservation and presentation of a great treasury of music and dance. We, the living, are the repository of these cherished heirlooms.

Here are the songs of our blood and bones. Through the centuries of turmoil which have sometimes taken a richly diverse Balkan and Eastern European culture to the very brink of extinction, somehow these music, song, and dance traditions have survived. From a Croatian Klapa song to the dramatic rhythm of a Bulgarian peasant dance to the haunting strain of a Russian romance, the music has survived through the generations to rest for a time in our keeping. The artists of the Radost Folk Ensemble honor that enduring Spirit every time we come together as a Village-in our recognition of these dances and this music as living history, and in our joyous appreciation of our younger members, who are the guardians of this wealth for the future.


Penny Orloff, Radost Artistic Director, 1999-2001
To Order: Send us an e-mail: order@radost.org
Price: $10 incl. shipping.



RADOST CD TRACK LISTING

 Track 

Title

Origin

Artist

Time

1.  Croatia Radost Folk Ensemble 1:10
2. 
Selections from Zagorski Tancuši
Croatia Radost Folk Ensemble 4:17
3. 
Moj Mi Je Mato
Croatia Dave & the Dalmatians 1:07
4. 
Zvira Voda
Croatia Dave & the Dalmatians 2:48
5.  Macedonia Orkestar RTW 5:41
6. 
Raditse Le
Bulgaria Košava 1:36
7. 
Dena Sliza Ot Goritsa
Thrace Košava 1:57
8. 
Letyat Utki
Russia Košava 2:48
9.  Bulgaria Radost Bitov Ensemble 4:28
10.  Croatia Dave & the Dalmatians 1:10
11. 
Izajdi Na Prozor
Croatia Dave & the Dalmatians 3:08
12. 
Duj, Duj
Serbia Orkestar RTW 2:44
13.  Croatia Jody Rush & Anne Pryich 1:29
14.  Croatia Radost Folk Ensemble 3:20
15.  Macedonia Vardar 3:53
16. 
Od Kad Seke
Hercegovina Košava 1:45
17. 
Dajcovo Horo
Bulgaria Radost Bitov Ensemble 3:11
18.  Bulgaria Dave & the Dalmatians 3:03
19. 
Eleno Mome
Bulgaria Orkestar RTW 3:33
20. 
Kolo iz Štitara
Slavonia Košava 1:40
21. 
Oj Peline
Bulgaria Košava 2:20
22. 
As Ya Merr
Albania Košava 1:48
23. 
Krivo Sadovsko
Bulgaria Orkestar RTW 3:18
24. 
Iz Dolu Ide
Macedonia Radost Folk Ensemble 2:10
25. 
Haskovo Rucenica
Bulgaria Orkestar RTW 4:07
26. 
Pjevai, Mi Pjevai
Croatia Dave & the Dalmatians 2:43