A documentary about reconstruction by the Soviet and Russian composer Hrayr Khanedanyan of opera "Lenora" written by the German composer Johann Zumsteg .

At the beginning of 2012, a handwritten clavier of the musical ballad "Lenora" was found in one of the private collections in St. Petersburg. The name of the composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteg is not widely known today. One of the founders of German romanticism, Schiller's friend and Schubert's teacher, set the poems of Gottfried August Burger to music. Lenora is a romantic story about eternal love, fidelity and death.

The ballad was highly appreciated by the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was his daughter, Princess Charlotte, who later became the wife of Nicholas I, who brought the manuscript of the score to Russia. Emperor Nicholas I found Zumsteg's music restless and contrary to his autocratic sentiments. The work was not allowed to be performed on the stage of the Imperial Theaters and eventually sunk into oblivion. The ballad was translated into Russian by Vasily Zhukovsky.

Lenore. The revival of the ballad...

"Music and Secrets" is a fascinating journey into the era when the works of great Russian composers were played in the palace halls of St. Petersburg. The northern capital keeps memories of balls, luxurious festivities, dinner parties and musical evenings, where prominent people of the 19th century shone. As part of the television project, architecture and music once again organically complement each other, resurrecting the spirit of the romantic century. Honored Artist of Russia, Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Palaces of St. Petersburg" - Maria Safaryants tells about the history of creation of works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and others.

Polovtsov Mansion (Architect's House). The rich interior decoration of Polovtsov's house combines the spirit of the Italian Renaissance and the sophistication of the Baroque style. It breathes with scent of Italy, and the music of Neapolitan composers sounds in the halls generously decorated with gilding. The heroes of this issue are Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

Script: Romanova A., Safariants M., Golovin A.

Director: Lalkina S.

Composers:
G. B. Pergolesi
A. Scarlatti

Producer: Romanova A.

Main Performers:
Konstantinovsky Orchestra
Ilya Derbilov
Maria Safariants
Anastasia Kalagina,
Irina Shishkova
Tigran Ohanyan
Stanislav Solovyov
Alexey Erofeev
Vasily Kirov
 
Producer: FEMF KM "Palaces of St. Petersburg"
2020

"Music and secrets" Polovtsov Mansion. Part 1

"Music and secrets" Polovtsov Mansion. Part 2

"Music and Secrets" is a fascinating journey into the era when the works of great Russian composers were played in the palace halls of St. Petersburg. The northern capital keeps memories of balls, luxurious festivities, dinner parties and musical evenings, where prominent people of the 19th century shone. As part of the television project, architecture and music once again organically complement each other, resurrecting the spirit of the romantic century. Honored Artist of Russia, Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Palaces of St. Petersburg" - Maria Safaryants tells about the history of creation of works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and others.

Script: Romanova A., Safariants M., Golovin A.
Director: Ryabinin Y.
Composers:
P. Tchaikovsky
M. Lermontov
M. Oginsky
P. Tchaikovsky / D. Ratgauz
P. Tchaikovsky / Sollogub
P. Tchaikovsky / G. Heine, trans. L. May

Producer: Romanova A.
Main Performers:
Maria Safariants
Sergei Slovachevsky
Stanislav Solovyov
Marianna Semyonova
Alexey Erofeev
Vasily Kirov
Theater "Small Trianon"
Tigran Oganyan
 
Producer: FEMF KM "Palaces of St. Petersburg"
2020

"Music and Secrets" Faberge Museum. Part 1

"Music and Secrets" Faberge Museum. Part 2

In the 65th year, when Muslim Magomayev first sang the song "Beauty Queen", he was 23 years old, but he was already at the pinnacle of fame. When the 20-year-old Magomayev was first heard by Ekaterina Furtseva, the former Minister of Culture, she said: “Finally, we have a real baritone!” After this, of course, there came an offer to join the troupe of Bolshoi Theater, but Magomayev refused it! As he later explained, “I didn’t want to confine myself to the framework of opera only.” The young performer built his concerts in a unique way: the first part - opera classics, the second - pop songs. So he managed to erase the boundaries between the so-called "serious music" and "light" and convey even to the most demanding audience completely forbidden twist melodies, such as, for example, "Beauty Queen".

The Song Remaines With You. Beauty Queen

The aouthor of this song is a famous Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov who served as a war reporter in the Soviet Army during World War The 2nd...

The Song Remaines With You. War Reporters' Song

In 1943, on a train from Stalingrad to Yelets, two very talented people met: composer Mark Fradkin and poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky. During wartime, trains moved very slow, the journey took 7 days and during this time the song “Accidental Waltz” was born and it still remaines a favorite among our people for many years.

The Song Remaines With You. Accidental Waltz

In September 1939, Germany attacked Poland. One of the best Polish jazz composers, Jerzy Pieterburgski, was drafted into the army. In the same month, he ended up on the territory that became part of the USSR. The musician received Soviet citizenship and by the end of the 1939 he headed the State Jazz Orchestra of the Byelorussian SSR. There were 25 musicians in the orchestra, almost all of them were former Polish citizens. For his team, Jerzy Peterburgsky wrote a waltz, which later became the song "Blue Scarf". In 1940, Jerzy's orchestra toured the Hermitage Garden in Moscow. The poet and playwright Yakov Galitsky came to their concert. The waltz inspired him so much that he, without waiting for the end of the concert, wrote down verses to this music in a notebook. After the concert, he showed it to the composer. And after a couple of days, the song "Blue Scarf" entered the concert program. But it was another, still peaceful version, light love song.

The Song Remaines With You. Blue Scarf

On July 8, 1969, Mark Bernes entered the legendary Moscow Recording House. He was hardly moving by that time, so his son helped him. He came up to microphone and recorded the song "Cranes" in one take. It was his last recording, a month later Mark Naumovich died. And the song was gaining popularity, which crossed the borders of our country and reached even The USA, where in West Hollywood there is a monument dedicated to the soldiers who fell in World War II, and on this monument there are 4 lines from the song "Cranes".

The Song Remaines With You. Cranes

60s of the XX century: the whole world was gripped by overwellming Beatlemania. And it did not bypass the Soviet Union, where it was quite possible to purchase records with the songs of The Liverpool Four on the black market. Andrei Makarevich was then a schoolboy. His father brought home a record of The Beatles, apparently unaware that he was thereby making a revolution in the world of Soviet music. Soon, Andrei Makarevich organized a group of Beatlemanic teenagers in his Moscow school. They dressed like Beatles and sang, as Makarevich himself says, "absolutely early Beatles style songs in English." But a year later, the group began call themselves "Time Machine". The guys grew up, gave semi-legal concerts, and by the end of the 70s there was no one left in the country who would not know about the "Time Machine" group. Then, in the 79th, the song "Turnabout" was born.

The Song Remaines With You. Turnabout

For more than 60 years, with the word "lilies of the valley", we remember, of course, both white flowers and the smell of spring, but first of all, our favorite song that begins to sound in our heads. Oscar Feltsman wrote the music for the song "Lilies of the Valley" back in 1958. Feltsman composed it in his characteristic short and easy manner and went for vacation to the seaside. And there, in the south, a week later he received a telegram from a friend: “Oscar, rush home, all Moscow is singing your "Lilies of the Valley.” So this song brought a smashing success to the little-known then composer Oscar Feltsman.

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