Natalya Eskina

“Altera Musica” in Empress’s apartment

Press-release

Samara Early Music Ensemble ‘Altera Musica' invites everybody, who admire the great past of Russian culture.

The concert, which will take place on September 8 th at 7-00 pm in the Marble Hall of Samara Fine Arts Museum, will include the music by which Emperors Pavel and Alexander I charmed their ears, as well as songs and instrumental pieces which were performed in Empress Maria Fiodorovna's chambers.

The names of such Russian composers as Teplov, Maslovsky, Kozlovsky are hardly known nowadays and are familiar only to specialists. Coquettish, sentimental, naive songs nowadays begin to sound really freshly. Apparently, our great-grandmothers could feel deeply and profoundly!

Beside Russian early music, the concert program also includes French music festival revelations: compositions of Lhoyer, who in his times would perform in Russian manors and palaces. The printed music which was found in a library of a noble family of the Solovtzovs in Syzran district and were later passed to Ulianovsk Karamzin's library, some years ago were discovered by EARLYMUSIC directorate and handed over to ‘Altera Musica' to be analyzed and performed.

Samara audience will listen to this program for the first time. After this concert in the museum, the ensemble will present it in Saint-Petersburg within the International Early Music Festival.

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