MEDIA

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

cabaret & other stories

We recorded A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC for our friends..., as a concept-metaphor, the music and lyrics of which create an atmospheric pattern of various love themes ... so that they can sit in the night and dream ... of an exciting world, somewhat fairy-tale-ish and unreal, theatrically lush, exuberantly showy, sometimes jolly, often nostalgic ...
We chose songs about the paradoxes of life. About common, everyday things, but seen through a strange and daring prism. Fragments of a cabaret and a musical as a mirror of our culture and of modernity itself, where we believe there is a spirit of freedom, brave satire, irony and provocation.
Interpreting all these themes, in an attempt to seduce and entertain, we comment on those things, which are important and special for us.
Our varied moods ..., poetic, dancing, exotic, frivolous, exquisite, ... melancholic ...In this little night music, we are brave, we dive into our own mirror, lost in the stars, because there is just one life to live! Enjoy!

THE NURSERY by Modest Mussorgsky

This project is created to show our passion and joy of children. Those who are already among us, and those who we call upon the most intimate prayers to come into our world! The interpretation of this artistic and musical scenes is an expression of our born smile and a sense of gratitude that we, the elderly, have this tremendous happiness to look at every moment in them. We want to show them a small world, namely the nursery where imagination and fantasy are hosted and where, in fact, goodness always triumphs! Thе CD contains seven songs written and composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Each song has a sweet and fine illustration by Youlian Tabakov, praised by The New York Illustartion Society.

Pauline Viardot

Russian Songs

Twelve Mazurkas (After Chopin)

Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) was one of the most extraordinary women in the history of music. Daughter of the Spanish tenor Manuel García and sister of the mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran, she studied piano with Liszt and counterpoint and harmony with Reicha, made her debut, also as a mezzo, at the age of sixteen and went on to inspire composers of the stature of Berlioz, Chopin, Ch.Gounod, Meyerbeer, Saint-Saëns, Schumann and Wagner, and she was no mean composer herself, as these passionate songs demonstrate. Twelve of them are arrangements of mazurkas by her good friend Frédéric Chopin; the others set some major poems in Russian, a language she spoke fluently.