“Laterna Magica” is an ensemble of ancient music from St. Petersburg , performing music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , mainly European, including the music of Sephardim [1] .
| Laterna Magica | |
|---|---|
| Genres | European music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
| Years | since 1998 |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg |
| Official site | |
Content
Team History
It arose in 1998 , in 2000 - 2003 . collaborated with the Pro Arte Institute of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg). He participated in the International Festivals of Ancient Music in St. Petersburg, Moscow , Minsk , Lviv , Tartu , festivals of classical and modern music in St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod , Kostomuksha , Polotsk . He toured in Belarus , Poland and the USA .
As composer Vladimir Rannev noted in connection with the 10th anniversary of the ensemble,
For a competent reconstruction of medieval music, musicians were required not only to thoroughly learn the notes (there were few of them, and the musical notation system was extremely imperfect), but also to stock up with voluminous cultural knowledge of the era and its traditions, the manner of behavior of people and, as part of it, the manner of playing music . What they stocked up to a sufficient extent. <...> The ensemble is already ten years old, and it continues to wander between historicism, folklorism and the alternative scene, and everywhere it is taken for its own [2] .
According to the famous critic Peter Pospelov ,
Olga Komok and her partners are not engaged in museum work — creativity, and they rely as much on research, as much on intuition gained from the experience of singing and playing in different styles, from baroque to jazz and rock [3] .
Name Origin
According to the soloist of the ensemble of the singer Olga Komok,
"Laterna Magica" in Latin means "magic lantern." This is such a medieval assembly, the prototype of modern cinema. The magic lantern was the childhood dream of Taras Drak. And the brother of Taras studied Latin, and he advised us to take this name [4] .
Composition
- Olga Komok - vocals, wheeled lyre , portable
- Taras Drak - tar , citol , fidel , viola da gamba , lute , oud , rebab , buzuki
At different times took part:
- Katya Bogdanova - singing, recorder
- Catherine Bonfeld - medieval flutes, vocals
- Alexander Gorbunov - fidel, viola, zinc, tar
- Andres Izmailov - Romanesque harp
- Rustik Pozumsky - Fidel
- Matvey Lapin - Fidel
- Dmitry Shikhardin - fidel, vocals
- Arman Habibi - vocals, centur, zarb
- Dmitry Ignatov - oud, drums
- Vladimir Scriabin - lute, tar
- Alexander Manotskov - Darbukka, vocals
- Pyotr Sergeev - boran, darbukka, tar
- Vsevolod Sadovy - percussion
Discography
- Latin and dancing
- Amor ei
- Iberica
Notes
- ↑ S. Khodnev. Three-dimensional Sephardic // Kommersant, No. 17 (3834), 5.02.2008.
- ↑ V. Rannev. We go to the East // Kommersant St. Petersburg, No. 111 (3928), 1.07.2008.
- ↑ P. Pospelov. Sharovary on Shabbat (inaccessible link) // Vedomosti, No. 20 (2042), 02/05/2008.
- ↑ Laterna Magica: historical novel music (inaccessible link) : Interview with Olga Komok
Links
- Official site
- News Petersburg. Laterna Magica at the Museum of Communications. video dated March 09, 2006 (inaccessible link)
- About the Laterna Magica concert and Sephardic culture (inaccessible link)
- Laterna Magica: historical novel music (inaccessible link)
- Cultural Initiatives Fund Mikhail Prokhorov
- Bomb Peter (inaccessible link)