Alexander Gradsky - Unofficial site



Just advertisingI got up in the morning. And I dreamed the night «Latina.» That's so, «I do not blame anybody, I did not catch up ...» This is imagined, then, an hour for three or four, I wrote the lyrics, the chorus written in the evening, the day started to do this sort of computer processing, and then arrangement, then led the orchestra, and then imposed this orchestra, and then reduced. The case was delayed for two weeks and spent about another thousand dollars on all this Baida. And the result was 15 songs... Read more - New records remastered CD Хинкали москва читать дальше. and the music!


"Satires"

Vocal suite on the poems of Sasha the Black

Alexander Gradsky and the group "Skomorokhi"

Record of the All-Union radio 1980
2 LP 1987 "Melody" CD 1996 MTCMO

 Satires by Alexander Gradsky

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In the literary basis of this suite are the verses of Sasha the Black, taken from cycles of different years. Satire Sasha the Black, one of the most read poets of the beginning of the twentieth century, was directed against such human vices as cowardice, meanness, stupidity, immorality, philistinism, which, unfortunately, still exist in our time.

Hence the idea of writing a musical work, whose language was, would be associated with the time.

This is a cancan and early jazz, romance and "soul-numbing" lyrics in pop the style of "modern" style, the vocal of chamber music and opera music ...

Through the prism of time I made an attempt to look at the poems of this beautiful poet and found them quite modern.

The final of the suite - the voices of Caruso and Chaliapin, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, Vertinsky, Ray Charles and others - like a bridge from the eternal values of art to today's day.

A. Gradsky



Satires by Alexander Gradsky
  1. Theater
  2. Error
  3. Descendants
  4. Disputes
  5. Night song of a drunkard
  6. Outskirts of St. Petersburg
  7. Lullaby (for the male voice)
  8. Harmony (imitation of the ancients)
  9. At a music rehearsal
  10. Again
  11. Staging
  12. Yellow House
  13. Lamentations
  14. Under the mute
  15. Island. In the morning
  16. Immortality
  17. Prayer
  18. Theater


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