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Running time:
2 parts by 40 minutes
6+

Рrogramme:

I Part

Rachmaninov
Choir Concert

Yekimov
“Rejoice, Mary”

Sviridov
“Lake Water” from choir cantata “Ladoga”

Poteenko
“Architects”

II Part

Russian Folk Songs medley

Molchanov
“Soldiers are Going”

Soloviev-Sedoy
“Evening on the Roads”
“Nightingale Birds”

Geviksman
“Birch Dreams”

Novikov
“Ah, the Road”

Frankel
“Cranes”

Solovyev
“Because we are Pilots!”

The programme is subject to change
5 June 2021 Saturday 13.00 Grand hall
13.00 Grand hall

The choir of boys and young men CANTUS

The Moscow-based choir of boys and young men CANTUS was founded back in 2009 by a Moscow Conservatory graduate, Alexandra Samokhvalova, at youth music school named after Joseph Haydn. Now about 50 singers from 8 to 16 years old with voices from treble, altos, and tenors, to baritones and basses, are the core of the Choir.

Traditions of Russian choir art promoted by the legendary Moscow Synodal School is the guiding line for the Choir in its choice of repertoire. So, the repertoire is vast, and it embraces Russian and Western classical music, as well as folk songs, and vocal arrangements of contemporary composers (even those from the realm of rock and pop music!).

Hailed as one of the leading vocal ensembles of Moscow, CANTUS was a winner of few Russian and international choir contests. It won grand prix of V International competition-festival named after Semyon Kazachkov in Kazan; XXXV International festival of Orthodox Church Music Days in Hajnówka (Hajnówka, Poland). It immediately entered the elite choirs in the world, receiving Grand Prix in Kazan, and second prize in Hajnówka.

Сhoir CANTUS and its soloists perform at the leading venues in Moscow, such as: Moscow Conservatoire, Chamber Hall of Moscow House of Performing Arts, the Great Hall of Moscow House of Performing Arts. 31 December 2015, the choir performed two solo concert in Moscow House of Performing Arts. On the 1st of May 2016, the choir took part in the festive Easter concert of the Choir of the Sretensky Monastery in Crocus City Hall.

Russian music spanning three hundred years is in the dramatic setlist of the concert that ranges from Rachmaninov to Sviridov, from folk songs arranged for different bands, and songs by Soviet composers dedicated to WWII.

Olga Belyaeva is the pianist.