History of Ensemble
" ...We're kneading the tomorrow of the Rrussian culture..."
Dmitri Pokrovsky
When Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble appeared on Moscow scene in 1973, it’s immediately baptized «unique». It was the first and still only ensemble of the professional musicians who brought the real authentic village music on the academic scene. Though now there are many folk group, some of which work with an authentic material, it is the most authoritative and professional ensemble. A thousands of concerts on the whole world from Alaska to Australia and from Texas to Japan made the Ensemble the real cultural ambassador. "M.Gurvich.Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble"
The audience firstly have seen not Russian Souvenir like Matrioshka and Balalaika but deep great high Russian traditional culture. Backstage always remained intensive scientific functioning, a hundred expedition to the Russian regions, for to record the authentic songs and rites, gathering the original suits. Exactly there, in villages of Archangelsk and Vologda areas, in the folklore settlings, beside Don’s and Necrassov’s Cossacks, near Smolensk and Belgorod, was created a stupendous repertoire – more than 2000 songs, dances and rituals.
By the way Pokrovsky had avoided the image of an only folklore group style and much more like an ethnographical. There are also masterpieces of the classical composers M. Mussorgsky, I.Stravinsky, R. Schedrin in a repertoire of the Ensemble. A performance of I. Stravinsky’s “Les Noces” (Brooklyn Academy of Music,1994) in New York became a real sensation.
Listen:
| 1."Birch-tree"(traditional) - | listen | - (wma-0,5 mb) |
| 2."Sunset"(traditional) - | listen | - (wma-1,7 mb) |
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