The various programs include

  • Songs and dances of Don,Kuban,Terek and Nekrassov’s Cossacs (the first ethnic groups, from which the Ensemble began its work). This musical tradition is strong and full of energy. This music is distinctive and unusual, it is a high polyphonic style with different character and kind of voices;
  • Oldest Slavic songs, musical instruments and pagan rituals, involving theater and dance. This is a Western Russian music from the Briansk and Kursk region where Old Slavic tribes lived. It is musical tradition with a very special sound of women voices. The core structure is the circle dance imitating the movement of time;
  • Fragments of the wedding ritual from Northern and Southern Russia. These are two completely different styles of singing, music and movement;
  • The Southern style noted also for its sophisticated a cappella singing with more polyphony. The Belgorod region Solstice Celebration marks the ritual of the entry of young women and men into adulthood and society;
  • Russian traditional folk theater especially at the Christmas time and Summer Solstice.
  • Russian spiritual music. Ensemble also reveals the totally lost layer of pious spiritual songs and verses that were sung outside of church, thus recreating a variety of folk oral traditions; monastery styles and early forms of Russian church polyphony
  • Modern and classical music, works by the rising generation of contemporary Russian composers based on folk music.The concert by the Pokrovsky ensemble already speaks volumes for how contemporary composers have been drawn by the folk heritage to a multitude of solutions. Beside the main idea and expression of a work, the rhithms and pitches of a multi-layered composition may well be inspired at root by ethnic influences.

 

Programms of traditional music

  • "Faces of Russia" traditional village music of different regions of Russia
  • "The man lives like the grass grows"\Russian Spiritual Music\. the Russian Old Believers’songs, psalms of the Dukhobor and Molokan Sects and music of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • "Chant of Circle Dance" the rituals of spring and summer time and music of A.Raskatov's suite "Voices of Frozen Land"
  • “Russian Wedding"(“It’s the Wedding!”) fragments of the traditional wedding ritual from Russian North and South-West
  • “Epic Songs” the special songs(bylinas) about old Russian heroes
  • "Russian Christmas" songs, plays, masquerade, dances and rituals of the most popular festival
  • "Love Images of Russian Villages"(from Romance to Limerick) new genres in old village traditions
  • "Happy  Maslenitsa" celebration of the very Russian holyday
  • "Russian Length Song" masterpieces of lyric folk music
  • Down The Volga River - songs and tales about rivers
  • "Pushkin and Folklore" traditional music, stories , subjects that influenced great poet.
  • "Russian folk theater" traditional dramas, plays and rituals
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  • Programms of traditional music for chidren
  • "Kolyada has came!" Christmas songs,dances and dramas
  • "Maslenka, give me a pan-cake!"celebration of the very Russian holyday 
  • "Come you, nightingales!" songs and dances of spring ans summer  traditional calendar cycle
  • "Harvest festival" traditional autumn rituals and songs for children
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Programms of author's and traditional music

The special performance "From folklore to avantgarde" includes some fragments of different programs with folk, spiritual and modern music. The repertoire renovates by new pieces. The length of the performances can be vary.

  • "Night dances" -  musical fantasy based on the works of Fyodor Sologub and Russian folklore
  • "Vivat ,Russia" traditional songs and music of XVII -XVIII century(time of Peter The Great)
  • “Romance in letters” dedication to the war with Napoleon: folk songs, Russian and French romances, militarymarches, letters and memoirs
  • G.Sviridov "Kursky songs"  masterpiece on authentic texts and its folklore sources
  • "In songs we'll remember you" program is dedicated to the centenary of the First World  War
  •  Song of Songs by Yuri Lubimov - folk songs and music of Shnittke, Denisov, Martynov from theatrical spectacles of great  Russian director (music composition and arrangement -Maria Nefedova, scenario and video-Olga Yukecheva)
  • -"Wind of Revolution" - program is dedicates to the 100 anniversary of Russian October revolution
  • Our Pushkin - traditional music, stories,subjects that influenced great poet and athors' music with his lyricks
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  • Programms of author's and traditional music for children
  • "Paraskazki" -folk and author's tales and stories with music and play
  • "Cat lullabies" -program is dedicate to one of oldest genre in traditional and author's music

   

Author's music programms

-  Russian Stravinsky(Stravinsky "Les Noces", "Renard", Russian cycles - masterpieces with the authentic lyrics

- K. Stokhausen"Stimmung" It was first sung in Russia by Pokrovsky Ensemble in 2014

- A.Shelygin "The Word about Igor's regiment" masterpiece of ancient Old Russian poetry

-V.Martynov "Night in Galicia" with V.Khlebnikov's poems

V.Dashkevich "Soldier's Requiem". In memoriem of Russian Soldat with music based on famous movie story.(Arrangement for Ensemble- Maria Nefedova, Video - Olga Yukecheva). Available also with orchestral soundtrack

- Composers and folklore - authors's pieces with traditional lyricks

- Roads of Victory -songs of Great Patriotic War

- "Poetry in  music" great works of Russian poets interpreted by composers