Choir on stage Grand Holl of Moscow Conservatoire
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The Academic Music
College Choir of The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire is one of the oldest
musical ediucational istitution founded in 1891. The choir conductor and
its artistic director is a ctltbrated musician Leonid Pavlov, an Honoured
Artist of Russia. L. Pavlov finished the Moscow Thaikovsky Conservatoire.
His lecturers were prof. A. Sveshnikov, V. Sokolov, S. Kazansky.
The choir members
are future professional singers and choirmasters. This youth choir is continuing
and developing the best tradition of Russia choirus singing. |
There are spiritual
composition by D.Bortnyansky, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Rakhmaninov,A. Arkhangelsky,
P. Chesnokov as well as Russian and Ukrain folk songs, works of outstanding
modern composers like D. Shostakovich, G. Sviridov, R. Shedrin, items of
the West-European classical music and Large symphony compositions in theire
repertoire.
The choir performances are
alwayse an inevitable success in the best concert halls of Moscow and other
cities. It has many times been recorded both by radio and television..
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The choir conductor
- an Honoured Artist of Russia
Leonid Pavlov
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Solists
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In 1991 the choir
was the first and third winner at the International polyphonic competition
"Gvido d'Arezzo" (Italy).The same yeare it took part in an International
choral Christmas music festival in Battipalia (Italy) and sang in the Vatican
in the presence of the Pope Johan Paul II. In 1993 the choir was rewarded
with a special Peace prize at an International competition in Corc (Ireland).
"The choir's perfomances are extraordinarily expressive and especially
when performing Russia music ("Ave Maria" by S. Rakhmaninov) they have
shown their brethtakingly deep interpretation" ("Irish Times", April 1993)
In December 1995 the Choir
was on tour in Finland. |
CHOIR PROGRAMME
Russian folk
songs:
"In the dark wood" - arr. A. Sveshnikov
(1890-1981)
"Down-streame the mother-river Volga"
- arr. A.Sveshnikov
"Bright moon is shine" - arr. A.
Sveshnikov
"Oh, girls backing home" - arr.
A. Sveshnikov
The compositions
of the Russian classics and
the modern
composers:
D. Bortnyansky (1751-1825) - concertos
¹15, ¹32; cherub songs ¹2, ¹7
P. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - "Liturgy
of Ioan Zlatoust ¹¹10, 11; "Sleeping golden cloudlet"
S. Rakhmaninov (1873-1943) - "Night
service" ¹¹1, 5, 6, 15; "Shining for You"
A. Arkhangelsky (1846-1924) - concert
for choir
Anonym XVIII c. - "Many Years"
G. Sviridov (b. 1915) - 3 fragment
from "Pushkin's garland" - "Echo", "Natasha", "Daybreak"
R. Shedrin (b. 1932) - 4 choirs
for Tvardovsky verses
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Concertmasters:
Tatiana Goncharenko
and
Nikolai Osipovcky
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Pope's audience
for choir Johan Paul II
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Western music:
Mozart - Requiem
Shubert - Messe G-dur
Bach - Motet "Lobert den Herrn alle
Heiden"
Brukner - Introitus
Palestrina - 2 motets
Gabrieli - Kyrie
Donato - Galiarda
Skarlatti - Motet
Tompson - Alleluia
American songs
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