Russia: Choral and Folk Music

Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes including interval

Polina Skovoroda leads The London Russian Choir in traditional lyrical and epic songs, ritual calendar music for pagan holidays, wedding songs and other folklore.

Playing Russian folk songs, her trio play folk song arrangements, embracing a range of cultural influences, incorporating improvisation and spontaneity, weaving a sound that moves the listener physically, emotionally and spiritually, with lyrical songs, ballads and dance music..

‘With virtuoso vocal talent and raw emotional delivery, Polina extracts energy from the same sources that make Blues so powerful’ Portuguese American Journal