Malanka | Маланка | Malanka

Arranger: Kyrylo Stetsenko | Кирило Стеценко

Sung to the master of the house, this Ukrainian New Year’s song exhorts him to permit the festivities to begin.

By the grove | Під бором | Pid borom

Arranger: Filaret Kolessa | Філарет Колесса

In this Ukrainian New Year’s song, a young maiden who was tending four oxen lost them, and though her father tried, he could not recover them.

The green grove | В гаю зелененькім | V haju zelenen'kim

Arranger: Filaret Kolessa | Філарет Колесса

This Ukrainian folk song, arranged for women's choir, depicts a bucolic scene of a stream by the woods as a backdrop for young love.