Program
On the programme:
Nastasya Khrushcheva (b. 1987)
Four choirs for the production of What Is to Be Done? by Andrei Moguchy (Tovstonogov BDT, 2014)
Animals’ Necrocarnival
Four vocalises for a capella choir (2021)
Happiness
Madrigal for mixed choir to the lyrics by Alexey Fishev (2015)
Dmitri Smirnov (b. 1952)
I Was Born in the Ninety-Fourth, I Was Born in the Ninety-Second
Concerto for mixed choir to the verses by Osip Mandelstam (1988–1989)
As Aortas of Mine are Bloodshot…
Fragile Mould s Getting Thinner…
This Must Be the Apex of Insanity…
Your Frail Shoulders Are to Be Stained in Red…
My Silent Dream…
I am so as the Others…
The Tiny Body Like a Wing…
Oh, How Much I Crave, Being but not Recognized by Anyone…
My Age
Performers:
Festino Chamber Choir
Artistic Director and conductor — Alexandra Makarova
Details
The winner of international contests, the Festino Chamber Choir was founded in 2008 as a community of like-minded professionals who are passionate about Renaissance and Baroque music. Since then, the choir has turned into a rare ensemble that has mastered the concert and theatre stage, ancient and modern music alike.
At Dom Radio several works by Nastasya Khrushcheva written exclusively for the Festino Chamber Choir will be performed. Each of these represents a radical post-ironic gesture. According to the composer’s idea, the verbal characteristics of the compositions play no less a role in their perception than the music itself and its performance.
The concert will also feature a choral concert by Dmitri Smirnov – the 20th century classic of choral music from Saint Petersburg – based on the poems by Osip Mandelstam I Was Born in the Ninety-Fourth, I Was Born in the Ninety-Second. This complex, tragic work explicitly or implicitly reveals the poet’s ideas about time as a fan in which the past, present and future coexist as a single whole.