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VIRTUAL VILLAGE
This program is based on the research about the use of folk music by various classical composers, from Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartets through the Mighty Five composers to Igor Stravinsky. It includes Russian shepherds’ instrumental music performed Sergey Starostin, Christmas seasonal songs, Shrovetide, springtime songs of different provinces; the folk "divination" ritual; lullabies and slow songs, dance songs with traditional choreography from different regions of Ukraine and Russia.
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Songs from Szymanowski
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Traditional songs from the Kiev region and Eastern Podolia, which Karol Szymanowski probably encountered during his childhood. Delightful, very specific music of these songs in the form of a spectacle. A great rite, drawing the viewer into the middle of an ancient, magical world. Lullabies, Caroling, ritual songs (summer, winter and spring calendar and wedding), playful, Chumatian, Cossack, balads, funeral psalm ... At some moments violin, rim drum, bells, rattles, ocarines.
Russian and Ukrainian Folk Music in the Mirror of Art Music
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