Bards of Russia. The Soviet bards

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 bard,who was allowed to perform their own author's 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 title Le Soldat en Papier. In the seventies, the plates with the songs of Bulat Okudzhava began to appear in the USSR.

The best bards of Russia

Rosenbaum Alexander - an outstanding Russian bard,by education a resuscitation doctor, graduated from the First Medical Institute in Leningrad. Author's songs began to write in 1968 for skits and student performances. Now it is one of the most popular Russian bards with an extensive repertoire, is on the list of bards of Russia - in the top five. In 2005, Alexander Rosenbaum combined his deputy duties with concert activity.

Vizbor Yuri - a teacher by profession, bard onvocation, climber, skier and journalist. He is the author of numerous songs about mountain peaks, ascents and rafting on mountain rivers. From the pen of Yuri Vizbor left a cult song of the students and all the youth of the 60's "You have me alone". Community of "bards of Russia" appeared on the initiative of Vizbor.

Evgeni Klyachkin, civil engineer, poet, bard,a romantic, the author of three hundred songs. In 1961, at the age of 17, wrote his first song "Fog" on the verses of Konstantin Kuzminsky. From this day the creative path of the Russian bard Evgeny Klyachkin began. At first he wrote songs for verses by Joseph Brodsky and Andrei Voznesensky. The cycle of songs, collected from romances performed by the characters of the poem "Procession" by I. Brodsky, is still considered the pinnacle of the author's song.

Zhanna Bichevskaya, the author's song star

Zhanna Bichevskaya is a singer who is calledthe star 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 folk Russian songs, which she sang in a bardic style, accompanied by an acoustic seven-stringed guitar. In 1973, Jeanne became a prize-winner of the All-Russian stage competition, and in subsequent years traveled with concerts all countries of the socialist camp. Later, she repeatedly performed in the Olimpia hall in Paris at full house.

Alexander Galich - Russian Performerauthor's songs of his own composition, 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 the "Sailor's Silence", written by Galich in 1958 for the Sovremennik Theater, was released only in 1988 in the production of Oleg Tabakov. At the same time, Alexander Galich began to write songs and perform them under his own accompaniment on a seven-stringed guitar. For the basis of his work, he took the performing traditions of Alexander Vertinsky - romance and poetic narration to the guitar. Galich's verses in his structure and literary value put him on a par with Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Russian author's song became the main direction in the works of Alexander Galich.

Family duo

Nikitin, Sergey and Tatiana - a family duobards, their music sounds in many films and theatrical performances. The most famous song of Sergei Nikitin - "Alexander" - was sounded in the popular film directed by Vladimir Menshov "Moscow does not believe in tears." By education Nikitin - a physicist, graduated from Moscow State University in 1968, is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. He has been writing songs since 1962 on the verses of 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 physical faculty quintet, where he met Tatyana Sadykova, who later became his wife.

The Soviet bards

All Russian bards of the sixties and seventiesyears can be called "Soviet", because they lived and worked under Soviet power. However, this epithet has little to say about, the performers of the author's song can not be characterized either by the social order or by political conditions-these are art people who are free in their work.