Russian folk music ... What is the first association most people have when they hear this phrase? Songs about Kalinka-Malinka and frost-frost, red boots and bright kokoshniks, a button accordion with a balalaika, squatting dance with a strong whistle and scream - that's all, perhaps? But Russian musical folklore is amazingly beautiful, rich and extremely diverse! Unfortunately, we are almost not familiar with our true, deep folk culture. Rather, with its numerous styles and traditions that are not similar to each other, genres ... They, like people living in different parts of Russia, are so different: each musical tradition has its own unique character, its own elusive charm, its own special energy, forever your memorable face ... The more interesting will be the discoveries that Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble shares with the audience at their concerts.
The great culture of folk music has no time. It coincides with today's art, it is the soil and the source of inspiration for artists, it is both memory, and wisdom, and our genetic code. This art, coming from antiquity to a distant future. In the singing of village singers, one can hear an absolutely modern sound; in avant-garde compositions one can find pagan foundations, primal energy.
Folk music is high art and high music. Yes, art is very far from our usual perception of the sweet sounds of folk melodies, there are no smooth corners in it, it is sharp, contradictory, controversial and even paradoxical, but it is alive! And it is still relevant.
The program, dedicated to the stylistic diversity of traditional Russian musical culture, presents songs, dances, ceremonies, tunes from different regions of Russia, as well as author music, which was born under the impression of acquaintance with folk art.
Cossack musical culture: One of the brightest, developed and many-sided national musical traditions. These are historical drawn songs of the Don Cossacks, and the distant military and game Kuban, and strict, reserved epics and romances of the Terek Cossacks, and the original art of the Nekrasov Cossacks, kept far from their homeland.
Songs and rites of the south-western regions of Russia (Polesye): It is in this region, which is considered the ancestral home of the Slavs, that there are still ancient songs and rituals preserved from the times of paganism.
Songs of family Transbaikalia This group of Old Believers - immigrants to Siberia from the central regions of Russia of the late 17th century created a unique style of male singing.
Songs of the Russian North The brightest fragments of the Northern Russian wedding ceremony
Songs of the South of Russia The heartfelt lyrics, virtuoso melodies and fun dance combines the South Russian musical tradition.
