Alexander Ognivstev - Sadko - Song of the Viking Guest

[DonCossack2011]

The Russian NAVY have a rocket cruiser Varyag (Viking)- look video in youtube

Vikings is our forefathers.

[chaiter1]

This is not interesting musically. He misses so much that can be put into it. Mystery, rock solid power, the description of the Varjags and what the severe land and sea made them into.There is nothing scary in the third verse.

God, how far it is from Chaliapin, Christoff, Reizen and Ghiaurov, just to mention a few.

[abracadabranque]

Laid et petit!

[MrSolarChef]

The voice is fine, considering that I don't hear that well anymore and the recording itself is muted through distance. But, it does seem to me that Ognivstev could have put more energy into it.

[hellynaw]

bravo

[jeansam84]

Un truk de fou, ça déchire tout!

[branko1b]

huhhhh one has to listen to Kopcak (or few others) to hear how this should sound

[mltube]

Not such a great singer, and the whole scene looks like a Capital One TV commercial :-)

[kozjevime]

I read the comments from totally ignorant people, obviously graduated from American public high schools.

Some Wikings, so called Wariags, settled in Kievskaya Rus and intermerried with domestic - Russian population which was predominant. That is all, like all over Europe among neighboring nations and tribes. Read some history books printed in Europe as in USA is forbidden cause of political correctness.

[Sweden80Here]

Youre right mate ! Ruserna was an viking tribe from roslagen in Sweden. They went east and called there new found land for "Rusland". The name Russia comes orginaly from the rus vikings in Sweden.

[patriksovjet]

i can¨t call him a proud person! dude he is talking bad bout scandinavia and i'm from scandinavia so i really hate that fat guy that pretend to be a viking

[NevskyGuest]

Мой дед пел эту песню в кафе "север", на своем вупускном вечере в институте в Ленинграде ))

[iamdabeat11]

I'm definitely liking that chord progression. It seems a bit interesting coming from Korsakov...

[Rudnique]

This is opera about vikings.W rosyjskim wydaniu :D

[joonte1010]

WTF is this? The Russians werent Vikings:S??

The "Ruserna" were Swedish Vikings, Coming from Roslagen.. They were in Russia and plundered and had trade with the Slavs there. They where also Varangians..

[vorjay]

Maybe thats why its called the 'Viking Guest'.

[kozjevime]

I read the comments from totally ignorant people, obviously graduated from American public high schools.

Some Wikings, so called Wariags, settled in Kievskaya Rus and intermerried with domestic - Russian population which was predominant. That is all, like all over Europe among neighboring nations and tribes. Read some history books printed in Europe as in USA is forbidden cause of political correctness. Russians are mostly Slavs with Skandinavian, Finnish, Baltic and Tatar admixture.

[nrh231]

wow. this is terrible.

[CHIVAPIANO1]

Many thanks. I go to listen Boris...For me too, he is a bass, and a very good bass ! I always wonder about the comments of "specialists" (like here !) when speaking about voices, beeing myself a professionnal singer AND a wellknown singing teacher, I just listen and appreciate a colleague without search the "pelo nell'uovo".

[seancoxen]

Brilliant! Ognivtsev looked remarkably like Chaliapin and played him in movies. Yes, he's past his prime, but the remnants of a beautiful is there.  He sounds like bass to me --Russian singers in general relied a lot on "mask" resonance.

[CHIVAPIANO1]

Go to listen Ognivstev's Aleko... here he is much older...

[seancoxen]

Also, search on OGNIVTSEV (notice spelling: "ts" not "st"). You will get his electrifying Halluciation Scene from "Boris Godunov" (1965).

[Ragnaroekk]

It is the color of the voice that makes you a bass, not the nose. He has the color of a bass, and all Russian basses had nasal sound. It is Russian school, punto e basta.

[Ufelan]

It's not the color, it's the range, plain and sinple. And Russian basses don't strive to achieve a nasal sound. Nasal singing is considered a "mistake", in all serious singing schools.

[Vokaljuga]

NOOOOOSE !!!! It's very bad ! It's big mistake for singer !

[aguacun]

Is not a bass... too much nose

[bendfeldtf]

For goodness it is not the nose nor dark noise of your comments . whether a bass or not, it is the his technique and specially the beautiful sound , depth and strength of his voice that makes a profound sensorial impression on the listener perhaps excepting you

[daliscape]

That is nowhere near DEEP enough for a Basso.

[dustmondo45]

Totally agree.

[Tenderness6]

I highly prefer Feodor Chaliapin's version of the song but I know it's not fair to Alexander Ognivstev