• A meeting with God: Piano professor and composer Misha Alperin, and conductor of the Oslo Chamber Choir, Håkon Daniel Nystedt, have collaborated closely on Alperin’s new piece, Prayers and meditations, which will be performed at Ris Church this weekend

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Participants

Misha Alperin (idea, producer, composer, Hohner Claviola)

Evelina Petrova-Alperin (accordion, voice, composer)

Oslo Chamber Choir. Conductor Håkon Daniel Nystedt,

Bulgarian vocal family: Sonia Borisova, Tatyana Duparinova, Yulya Koleva, Nadya Vladimirova

Soloists: Sergey Starostin (voice),

Bjørn Løken (percussions)

Sound engineer Tor Magne Hallibakken,

Recorded 24-25 April 2015 in Ris Church, Oslo, Norway.

Mixing in Rainbow studio by sound producer Jan Erik Kongshaug.

Mikhail Alperin seeks in its highly sectarian music to an ideal of simplicity that supports a spiritual message. Alperin carries with musical means, helping to sustain the spiritually formative forces of Europe to one another. In his work, traditions meet in the Eastern Orthodox Europe and the traditional folkloric, enriching each other mutually. He manages to build a bridge between aesthetics, ethics and spirituality and introduce elements of the musical language of the East in the concert halls of the West.

«Prayer and Meditations» rehearsal

Tracks:

1. Misha Alperin  “Prayers and Meditaions” 15: 42

2. Misha Alperin, «Apocalypses» Soloist Sergey Starostin 6.23

3. Bjørn Løken “Shaman” solo percussions 3:01

4. Evelina Petrova-Alperin “Grass, birds and fogs” 7:54

5. Misha Alperin «Norwegian raga» Soloist Misha Alperin — Hohner Claviola 5.51

6. Evelina Petrova-Alperin “Down to the russian river” Soloist Evelina Petrova- Alperin (voice) 4.32

7. Misha Alperin “New prayers” 15:01