Ansambandûl Dobrudzha

Bavna pesen i Brûchmaliysko horo (slow song & Silistrenski Opas)
Dobri Zlati progovarya (Dobri spoke to Zlati)
Irnishko horo
Vida za voda otiva (Vida went to fetch water)
Malka syuita vûrhu tri pesni ot severna Dobrudzha (Small suite on 3 songs from north Dobrudzha)
     a) Izgoryah, lelyo Yano (I'm enchanted, Aunt Yano)
     b) Izgryala e mesechinka (The moon has come up)
     c) Dimo lyo (Hey, Dimo)
Stoyan mami duma (Stoyan said to his mother)

Alekovski opas
Pomamil Ivan stadoto (Ivan drove onward the herd)
Sey bob (Sowing beans)
Razgovorka (A chat)
Zaspiril kaval v usoi (A kaval sounded ...)
Izhvûrli kondak (Fire your gun)
Oplakala se gorata (The forest has complained)

1984 marks the 30th anniversary of the Dobrudzha Ensemble. For thirty years now the Ensemble has been a center for tracing and preservation of folk songs, melodies, and dances which bear the eternal feeling for beauty and the spirit of the people from Dobrudzha. With its numerous concerts, gramophone records, and recordings for the radio and television in the course of three decades the Ensemble has been developing and popularizing the vast wealth of our national folklore. The chief part of its repertoire includes songs, tunes, and dances from the Dobrudzha region but a significant place is occupied also by the best examples of folk music from almost all ethnographic regions in Bulgaria.

From a purely amateur group the Dobrudzha Ensemble became a professional formation with an artistic appearance of its own, recognized both at home and in the countries where it has toured: the USSR, Romania, France, the GDR, Belgium, Iraq, Nigeria, Great Britain, and Greece.

" ... Dobrudzha ... this ensemble demonstrated great artistry, grandeur, and beauty ... " – The Nigerian Tide Newspaper, 1977, Nigeria.

The Ensemble's strength lies in the spontaneity and the high artistic level of performance on stage, in its being a party to the life rich in events, the way people from Dobrudzha have felt and re-created it, in the vigorous authenticity of the dances, in the originality of the costumes, in its efforts to convey to the people true and lasting values. Addressed to the feelings and thoughts of our contemporaries are the intransient values hidden in the wealth of Bulgarian music, rediscovered through the expressive means of our modern times.

The new record of the Dobrudzha Ensemble aims at answering the increased interest of its numerous admirers and listeners. Included in it are mainly new recordings there predominate the solo and instrumental performances. A response to the great interest of the listeners is the performance of the Dobrudzhanska Troika – an original instrumental formation, existing in Dobrudzha only. Presented are also the choir and the orchestra of the Ensemble. Together with the arrangements of famous Bulgarian creative artists: Stefan Kunev, Anastas Naumov, Nikolay Kaufman, Kosta Kolev, etc., the record includes two arrangements of the young choir-master of the Ensemble Kostadin Buradzhiev. The Ensemble has remained true to the tradition – all the songs and instrumental performances in the record are from Dobrudzha, except Razgovorka (A chat) on music by Peter Lyondev. We shall meet again popular soloists of the Ensemble – Ivan Georgiev, Zhelyaz Dimov, Stefan Georgiev, Petko Zhelyazkov, etc.

We wish our listeners that the new recordings of the Dobrudzha Ensemble might reach them like the singing carts of Yovkov's hero Saly Yashar to bring them joy and national pride in Dobrudzha's spiritual resources. – Plamena Tsoneva

Recorded at the Party House Hall – Tolbuhin, in December 1983