Ukrainian-Karelian EthnoPolyphonia (Quodlibet) for kantele and jouhikko, Ensemble “Kandeleh“

All started from the Israeli anthem. Definitely it reminded us something like B. Smetana. Wikipedia said that the anthem as well as Smetana’s (Ma Vlast ) were based on the old 16 century Italian song “La Mantovana“ which gave rise to a lot of national songs around Europe, including... Ukrainian “Kucherjava Kateryna“. We listened it and did not find any similarity with “La Mantovana“ (and Israeli anthem as well) however to the great of our surprise we found the Ukrainian version to be very similar to the