Moscow-Sokolniki:
MISA TANGO Luisa Bakalova

A rare pleasure awaits visitors of Sokolniki Park this summer: the Big Tango will come to Moscow. On July 6, 2013, the Russian premiere of Misa Tango by Luis Bakalov will take place.

The development of academic music in the 20th century is paradoxical: on the one hand, it seems to live in an ivory tower, often suffocating in the airless space of its own elitism; on the other, he is desperately looking for a way out to the listener, connecting either with jazz or rock, then with pop or ethnic music. Written at the turn of the millennium (2000), Misa Tango Bakalova (along with the “Creole Mass” by Ariel Ramirez or the Mass of Leonard Bernstein) is one of the most impressive cross-genre projects in which the thousand-year history of the Catholic mass combines with the rhythms of tango, which have captured the whole earth today. ball.

The maestro Luis Bakalov will give a special flavor to the Russian premiere. Recently celebrating its 80th anniversary, this composer, pianist and conductor has become a cult figure for fans of academic music and film fans. In different years, Bakalov wrote music for the films of Pierre Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Damiano Damiani and other masters of cinema; in 1996, he won an Academy Award for music for Michael Radford’s Postman.

Mis’y Tango’s Russian premiere is a continuation of cooperation between the creative-management group of the producer company Technologies of Culture, the Joint Directorate Mosgorpark and Sokolniki Park. In August 2012, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s First Piano Concert, a large-scale open-air concert was held in Sokolniki Park, witnessed by more than 3,000 spectators. The company "Technology of Culture" has vast experience in conducting major art events, both in concert halls and in the open air; prominent soloists and groups performed in them.

The concert on July 6 will bring together a stellar international team of performers: among them are Argentinean soprano Mariana Reversky, French bandoneonist Juan Mosalini, Honored Artist of Russia, winner of the Golden Mask National Award, chief conductor of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater Felix Korobov and the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra ; Baritone Pavel Baransky; the legendary State Academic Russian Choir named after A.V. Sveshnikova (artistic director - Evgeny Volkov).

In the first section, under the direction of Felix Korobov, the First Concert for Piano and Orchestra by Luis Bakalov will be performed (soloist - author); in the second - Misa Tango under the direction of maestro Bakalova.

Free admission.

As in the last season, the main event is preceded by Music art mobs. "Musical intrigues in the rhythms of tango" on the site "The Pool" in Sokolniki Park will be held on June 16, 23 and 30; will be intrigued by the well-known Moscow band “Piazzolla Quintet” led by Honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Khokhlov and St. Petersburg musicians from the Astor Piazzolla Awards (Italy) ClubTango Orchestra led by Alexander Mitenev.

The beginning of art mobs at 21-00.

The concert starts on July 6 at 20-00.

The author of the project is Natalya Barinova