El 38º Euroradio Folk Festival de 2017 se celebró en la ciudad checa de Çesky Krumlov, organizado por la Çesky Rohzlas o Radio Nacional de la República Checa. Este evento, itinerante, lo acoge cada año una emisora pública europea. En 2017 se celebró entre el 19 y el 22 de julio. Cada emisora pública europea envía un representante. En total fueron 21 conciertos de los que en una primera tanda vamos a oir diez; ya hemos oido cinco y esta semana vamos con otros cinco. Hoy escuchamos a la representación de Rusia de Radio Rusia, Loyko:
Sergey Erdenko - violin, vocals
Artur Gorbenko - violin, vocals
Michael Savichev - guitar, vocals
El programa de mano, en inglés, decía:
LOYKO is based in St Petersburg. While Russian Roma music has always remained the basis of the ensemble’s artistic work, LOYKO’s musical spectrum has continuously expanded in sound and style through encounters with Celtic music and traditional Romanian and Hungarian music as well as classical music and flamenco.
The group has released 13 CDs and DVDs and a number of compilations, featuring not only traditional gypsy songs arranged by the group, but also compositions by S. Erdenko. They also have written music for a number of films and played in some of them.
Sergey Erdenko was born in Khabarovsk; his parents were well-known gypsy musicians. He picked up a fiddle for the first time at four. In two years he was performing on stage with his elder brother Nikolay. In 1990, after a theatrical career, Sergey founded LOYKO in London, which critics later called the leading gypsy group in the world.
Artur Gorbenko was born in Leningrad and studied violin at a music school and viola and piano at a music college. After graduating from the Conservatory he spent eight years as a composer and arranger of songs and music for TV programmes and resumed playing the violin in various ensembles, concentrating on improvisation, jazz in particular.
Michael Savichev was born in Novosibirsk and studied classical guitar at the Novosibirsk Conservatory and he was playing in his jazz fusion group “UC”. After 2000 he joined the group of a famous flamenco performer Tomás de Madrid and spent a few years in Spain studying flamenco in Seville and Cordoba. His unique guitar is a patented blend of gypsy traditions of Russia and Spain.
Contact: Tatiana Erdenko
Programme:
1. Gypsy (trad. arr. Loyko)
2. Malarkiza (trad. arr. Loyko)
3. Loyko (by S. Erdenko)
4. Mato (trad. arr. Loyko)
5. Christmas Present for Nunia (by S. Erdenko)
6. Piro wash (by S. Erdenko)
7. Telema (trad. arr. Loyko)
8. Chardash (by C. Monty)
9. Gelem (trad. arr. Loyko)
10. Moldova (trad. arr. Loyko)
De postre ponemos una canción de los otros representantes rusos de este año, Quinteto Valday, que programaremos íntegramente el próximo viernes, en la sesión 10.
