PROGRAM
Felice Anerio
Christus factus est
Giovanni Palestrina
Ego sum panis
Thomas Tallis
if you love me
John Farmer
Fair Fillis I saw
Jacob Arkadelt – Dmitry Kurlyandsky
Il bianco e dolce cigno
Alexey Sysoev
From the cycle “7 Songs to Poems by E. Pound.”
Dieu! Qu’il la fait (“God! He who created her …”. From Charles of Orleans)
Speech for Psyche
In the golden book of Apuleius
Intern
In morte de (“Oh, gentle spirit that parted us”)
Vladimir Gorlinsky
Air-air. Motet
The N’Caged Vocal Quartet presents a program of works by the leading masters of the Renaissance — Palestrina, Tallis, Arcadelt, and others, as well as contemporary composers — Alexei Sysoev, Vladimir Gorlinsky, and Dmitry Kurlyandsky — in the format of vocal music without accompaniment. What topics interested the authors then and now? How do they use the expressive possibilities of the vocal ensemble?
PERFORMERS
Arina Zvereva
Olga Rossini
Sergei Malinin
Ilya Laptev
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
The vocal quartet N’Caged was founded by Arina Zvereva in 2013. The ensemble performs contemporary music and collaborates with leading contemporary Russian composers in opera and drama productions, concert programs, performances, and museum projects. In addition, the vocalists of the ensemble took part in concerts at the Moscow International House of Music and interpretations of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre. The head of the ensemble is Arina Zvereva, winner of the Golden Mask special award “For the deep disclosure of the musical and artistic image, as well as for the development and expansion of modern vocal techniques.”