On 20 May 2024, the Armoury Chamber hosted a concert from the cycle “Music Meetings in the Kremlin”.The audience listened to the works of Peter Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Sergey Rachmaninoff, and modern composers.
Actually, there is a lot of Easter sacred music, but we have moved forward and wished to show national, Russian Easter music in particular which is also plentiful. Today we will listen to music of three centuries – the 19th, the 20th, and the 21st. It may be a unique opportunity to learn about young modern composers, our contemporaries, that have already become very popular among the listeners and received a high appraisal from colleagues,’ said Elena Milovzorova, Head of the Publishing and Special Programs Department of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
For the first time, the organ sounded in the Armoury Chamber: Eugeniya Krivitskaya and Maria-Emiliya Terzyan-Khagba performed the romance ‘Lilac’ by Rachmaninoff transcribed for violin and organ, as well as fragments of ‘The Last Judgement’ and ‘Hallelujah’ from the Sacred Concert of Vyacheslav Zuev for choir and organ.
The programme finished with a fragment from the Symphony № 1 “Glory to Art!” by Alexander Skriabin, who embodied the concept of synthesis of arts in his works.