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BSRT Female Choir
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Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir Also known as: Мистерията на Българските гласове Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir (BSRT Female Choir) , Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Genre(s): Folk, World Music Years active: 1952 - Present Label(s): Nonesuch, 4AD, Polygram, Disques Cellier, Rhino Associated acts: Trio Bulgarka, Angelite - The Bulgarian Voices The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir is an internationally renowned World Music ensemble that blends traditional six-part a cappella repertoire with modern arrangements. It is most recognized under the recording name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. First created as the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir in Bulgaria in 1952 by Philip Koutev, “the father of Bulgarian concert folk music,” the choir is now under the direction of Dora Hristova. Koutev also created and conducted the Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic in 1951. Singers are chosen from country villages for the beauty and openness of their voices, and they undergo extensive training in the unique centuries’ old singing style. Influenced by Bulgaria’s Thracian, Ottoman and Byzantine history, their music is striking in its use of diaphonic singing and distinctive timbre, as well as its modal scales and dissonant harmonies (abundant second, seventh, and ninth intervals). Though the choir became widely known when the trend-setting English alternative record label 4AD released a pair of anthology albums in 1986 a
top songs
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Pilentze Pee (A Birdie Sings)
8152Svatba (A Wedding)
7793Polegnala E Pschenitza (Harvest Chant From Thrace)
6274Strati Na Angelaki Doumasche (Strati Told Angelaki, Haiduk Chant)
6245Messetschinko Lio Greilivko (Moonshine, Love Chant From The Rhodopes)
6166Erghen Diado (Bachelor Grandpa, Song Of Schopsko)
5827Brei Ivane (Hi, Ivan, Dancing Song)
5748Pritouritze Planinata (The mountain is getting dark, Chant From The Thracian Plain)
5639Schopska Pesen (Shopska Song, Diaphonic Chant)
52510Polegnala E Todora (Theodora's Siesta, Love Chant)
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 1
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 2
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 3
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Le Mystčre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 1
Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 4
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Le Mystčre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 2
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Le Mystиre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 1
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Le Mystčre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 3
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares,
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Le Mystиre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 2
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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares
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Le Mystиre Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. 3