Izosimov A. Songs of the Beautiful Stranger. Vocal cycle for soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, basso and piano

Having arisen from a word, “Song of the beautiful stranger” have inspired to life other artistic firms, having generated the tripartite alliance of arts. Svetlana and Sabir Gadzhiev, Saint-Petersburg artists,created paintings dedicated to Izosimov “Songs”. There is difficult for attributing their stylistic shape in terms of any known school. There is also a light scale of paints inherent to Izosimov composition in them. The prevalence of yellow-golden gamut, creates both a transparency of color, and illusoriness due to which the image of canvases is looked quasi through a veil of time or dream (“The Daybreak Song” depict a shape of light prince). They are filled with various symbolics (“River Sugakleja”). There is something from a children's spontaneity in Gadzhiev's artistic manner, as, for example, in Izosimov' Rumpelstilzhen portrait.

There are not enough examples in history when the artistical canvas became a pulse to creation of a piece of music as ingenious Musorgsky's “Picture from an Exhibition”. Here obvious we have inverse phenomenon. Having arisen from perception of a piece of music, Gadzhievs' paintings are far from just illustrativeness. They possess the independent figurative world, inseparable from their fancy style palette.

Contents:

HYMN TO THE DAY. Verses by Novalis, translated by N. Galkin
MY SWEET LAND. Verses by E. Moerike, translated by A. Alexandrova
UNDER THE HEART OF GRASS. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
POOR FISHERMAN. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
PIPE SONG. Verses by L. Uhland, translated by F. Tyutchev
GRASSHOPPERS. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
RUMPELSTILZHEN. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
DOMESTIC CRICKET. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
CRADLE. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
THE SUMMER MONTH’S. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
THE SUGAKLEIA RIVER. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
THE FIRST MEETING. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
I WAS BORN SO LONG TIME AGO. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
THAN IT IS GUILTY. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
RAINY DAY. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
DAYBREAK SONG. Verses by A. Blok
ARTIST PAUL KLEE. Verses by A. Tarkovsky
HYMNS TO NIGHT. Verses by Novalis, translated by N. Galkin