In a solo concert of the Orenburg chamber chorus which will be held on September 29 (19:00 In the Orenburg regional philharmonic hall) the audience will be able to hear the Cantata "Moscow" of the ingenious Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The cantata "Moscow" consists of six interconnected episodes: three solo and three choral
The work is written in the stylized Russian-epic character. Real historical events are reflected in its contents:
- Tatar-Mongolian yoke (chorus "With It Is Small a Key...")
- formation of the Moscow principality (arioso "That not an Asterisk...")
1. CHORUS "With It Is SMALL the KEY..." - the epic narration about origin of Moscow and the period of the Tatar-Mongolian yoke.
2. ARIOSO OF THE MEZZO-SOPRANO "THAT NOT THE ASTERISK".
3. CHORUS "HOUR STRUCK" - welcome chorus in style the vivatnykh.
4. MONOLOGUE AND CHORUS "AS FROM the WOOD". The orchestral introduction, goes further the epic story.
5. The ARIOSO "WHETHER to me, MY GOD" for a mezzo-soprano with orchestra. Deeply expressive, with a melodious melody of surprisingly wide range. After small more uneasy average episode, the initial melody comes back. The effective choral final of a slavleniye is perceived as solemn and festive end of all composition.
6. "ACROSS RUSSIA THE KNOCK AND THE THUNDER BIG WENT".

Moscow is presented in the cantata by a symbol of power, greatness and unity of Russia.
Music has epic, epic and narrative character. Choral and solo numbers have various drama purposes and characters. A baritone - the main story-teller, a mezzo-soprano - the soldier, an allegorical image of Moscow, the liberator of the Slavic people.

B. Asafyev carried Moscow to type of the lyrical (liriko-epic) cantata with which to one line there is "John Damascene" of Taneev, "Spring" of Rachmaninov.