Balalaika: Alexei Arkhipovskiy - Sharmanka

Cyrillic: Алексей Архиповский - Шарманка

Alexei Arkhipovsky is a renowned balalaika virtuoso in both Russia and abroad. Enjoy showmanship and virtuosity combined, Russian style!

Some of the songs featured (times are highly approximate, and he alters them quite a bit, also altering back and forth between various pieces):

1:20
Für Elise/Bagatelle in A minor
(Ludwig van Beethoven, Bia 515/ WoO 59)

2:07
Caprice Nr. 24 in Am
(Niccol Paganini)

2:36
Paganiniana
(Nathan Mironovich Milstein, variations on multiple works by Niccol Paganini)

3:33
Jingle Bells
(James Lord Pierpont, 1857)

4:10
Theme from "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (from the Soviet film series, original title: Семнадцать мгновений весны)
(Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev, 1973)

4:43
The Pink Panther Theme
(Henry Mancini, 1963)

4:57
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
(excerpt from the Soviet film series, original title: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона)
(Vladimir Sergeyevich Daskevich, 1981)

5:18
Toccata & Fugue in Dm
(Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 565)

6:38
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
(Walter Donaldson, 1925)

8:00
Cara Mia
(Bobby McFerrin, 1985)

More to come, hopefully. I reckon there are some pieces in there that he wrote himself, and some that might be quite obscure folk tunes.

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