FULL MUSIC OF OUR TIME Recital XII Moscow 2025 Pelageya Kurennaya, Veronika Meshkova, Olga Deineka-Boston, Ilya Selivanov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Music of Our Time Recital XII
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Small Hall of Zaryadye, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: April 14, 2025
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Pelageya Kurennaya, Veronika Meshkova, Olga Deineka-Boston, Ilya Selivanov, Yulia Nikanorova
- Conductor: Karina Pogosbekova
- Orchestra: Karina Pogosbekova, PIANO
- Chorus: Choir of Students of the State Pedagogical Institute named after M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov
- Chorus Master: Elena Bessonova
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Russian Patephone
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, rusubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The twelfth concert within the framework of the international project of contemporary vocal music “Music of Our Time”, author of the idea Karina Pogosbekova.
1 SECTION
0:06:41 – Anna Kuzmina / Anna Kuzmina
“70 bars” (lyrics by Anna Akhmatova) Moscow premiere / “70 bars” (lyrics by Anna Akhmatova)
Performers:
Invited soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Pelageya Kurennaya, soprano
Andrey Berezin, cello
Karina Pogosbekova, piano
0:17:12 – Sergei Slonimsky / Sergei Slonimsky
Vocal cycle “Seven Romances based on the poems of Anna Akhmatova” / Vocal cycle “Seven songs with lyrics by Anna Akhmatova”
1. At the white night
2. The thing, that the dream sang to me about
3. It could be better for me to cry out short songs vigorously
4. It’s not for nothing that I’m known as sad
5. I shan’t drink wine with you
6. I’ll leave your white house and silent garden
7. Stuffy hop
Performers:
Veronika Meshkova, soprano
Karina Pogosbekova, piano
0:39:39 – Ivan Sokolov / Ivan Sokolov
Vocal cycle on the lyre by Fyodor Tyutchev
1. Silentium
2. My soul is the Elysium of shadows
3. Poetry
4. How sweetly the dark green garden slumbers
0:57:39 – “In the thick grass” (words by Alexander Blok). World Premiere
Performers:
Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Stage soloist Olga Deineka-Boston, mezzo-soprano
Karina Pogosbekova, piano
SECTION 2 1:05:05
1:08:00 – Nikolay Mazhara
Vocal cycle on the lyre by Ivan Bunin
1. Heavy Rain
2. Hidden Paths
3. Spring
Performers:
Bolshoi Theatre soloist Ilya Selivanov, tenor
Karina Pogosbekova, piano
1:22:19 – Yuri Falik
Vocal cycle “Ringaday” (“Zveniden'”) Vocal cycle on the lyre by Russian poets of the early 20th century
1. Old letters (poems by Maximilian Voloshin)
2. Lament (poems by Anna Akhmatova)
3. Window in the night (poems by Marina Tsvetaeva)
4. Night song of a drunkard (poems by Sasha Cherny)
5. Nocturne (poems by Igor Severyanin)
6. KolokOly-balaboly (poems by Innokenty Annensky)
7. Zveniden (poems by Vasily Kamensky)
Performers: soloist of the Helikon Opera theater
Yulia Nikanorova, mezzo-soprano
Karina Pogosbekova, piano piano
1:45:43 – Mikhail Bronner / Mikhail Bronner
“The Soul Would Like to Be a Star” – five poems to the words of F. I. Tyutchev for children’s choir and solo piano. The composition is dedicated to the memory of the Russian conductor, founder of the children’s choir “Spring” Alexander Ponomarev.
1. Clouds are melting in the sky
2. How quietly it blows over the valley
3. The Soul Would Like to Be a Star
4. Look how the grove turns green
5. Dreams
Performed by the Choir of Students of the State Pedagogical Institute named after M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov (director – Honorary Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation Elena Bessonova)
Musical director and piano – Karina Pogosbekova
Presenter: Alexandr Vodopyanov