Swing
The most extensive and fertile region when it comes to the great jazz performers of the 20th century. Swing appeared in the 20s and remained unusually popular right up to…

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Lyudmila Zykina - QUEEN OF RUSSIAN SONG
Lyudmila Zykina is a singer who for a long time was perceived by the world as a symbol of Russia. A Moscow girl from a working-class family from an early…

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LARISA MONDRUS, OR JUST LARISSA
Larisa Mondrus is called the number one star of Soviet pop music of the late 1960s and early 70s. And the first thing that pops up in my memory is…

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beautiful talented stranger

EDITA DRINK: “NEVER LOVE IS LATE”

Edita Piekha’s songs sound in many languages: Russian, French, Polish … Different in mood and melodies, but similar in one: they are about love. These songs are not included in the “hot twenties”, are not referred to as hits and rarely sound in the current “advanced” radio. But they are remembered and loved by almost the whole world.

Bright, elegant, with high taste, plastic, intelligent, easy to communicate and talented. It is called a legend and so much has been written about it that you can hardly add anything else. Songs of Edita Piekha became an integral part of our life. Continue reading

Listen to congenial
Music critic Ilya Ovchinnikov believes that the tradition of starting an acquaintance with the classics through the music of Bach and Mozart is not entirely true. After all, there are…

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Chinese pianist Lang Lang: biography, personal life
The magnificent modern pianist Lang Lang was born a prodigy. This happened in the city of Shenyang (Liaoning Province), which was three hundred years ago the capital of Manchuria. By…

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SENIOR COMPOUND MONTSERRAT CABLE
Montserrat Caballe is destined to be the last of the caste of great opera divas of the twentieth century. At one time, Maria Callas was assigned the epithet Divine, and…

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