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 German synth pop outfit And One formed in Berlin in 1989. DJs/producers Steve Naghavi and Chris Ruiz first met the previous year in a local dance club, bonding over their mutual affection for early industrial acts like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb and borrowing their subsequent dual synthesizer and beatbox aesthetic from Depeche Mode. Upon signing to the fledgling Machinery label, And One issued their 1990 debut single, "Metal Hammer," a significant club hit that set the stage for their first full-length effort, Anguish, completed with contributions from newly added third member Alex Two. And One closed out 1991 with the techno-inspired charity single "Aus der Traum," originally titled "Saddam Hussein" and produced to benefit Greenpeace. The angry, cynical Flop! followed months later and heralded the exit of Ruiz, who resigned to pursue a solo career. With new drummer Joke Jay, And One cut the EP Monotonie, which invoked the electronic body music influences of their earliest work. Conversely, the 1993 full-length Spot proved their most commercial and accessible effort to date, generating the mainstream pop hit "Life Isn't Easy in Germany." Alex Two left the trio soon after, and with replacement keyboardist Rick Schah, And One recorded 1994's I.S.T., generally considered their most ambitious and challenging project. A year later, Ruiz guested on the single "Deutschemaschine," which marked the end of their long stint with Machinery. A bidding war quickly resulted, and after signing with Virgin And One issued Nordhausen in 1997. 9.9.99. 9 Uhr followed a year later, scoring the hit "Get You Closer." In the wake of the follow-up, Virgin Superstar, Joke Jay handed in his resignation, and in 2001 Ruiz finally returned to And One full-time, appearing on the MP3-exclusive single "Amerika Brennt," the group's response to the terrorist attacks of September 11. As And One entered its third decade, their pace began to slow. A new full-length, Aggressor, did not hit retail until 2003, and a three-year gap preceded the release of 2006's Bodypop. Bodypop, their first album for the Out of Line label, sounds like pure 1982 synth pop: think Depeche Mode's A Broken Frame, Soft Cell's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret and Yaz's Upstairs at Eric's. Sounding like it was recorded entirely on instruments that were state of the art a quarter-century earlier, Bodypop is absolutely uncanny in its evocation of a long-gone sound, one that's so resolutely out of fashion that it feels paradoxically fresh and forward-looking in a way that synth pop hasn't in decades. Highlights include the near-ambient experimentation of "Traumfrau" (the one song that sounds more like the comparatively more experimental Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark or Thomas Dolby) and "Love You to the End," a straight-up pop song that sounds uncannily like a lost Depeche Mode single from the Construction Time Again era. In the spring of 2009, And One released Bodypop 1 which featured three new songs in conjunction with unreleased versions of "So Klingt Liebe" and "Love You To The End," as well as live versions of cover songs that they have performed throughout the years. And One's recent and most controversial publication, which was released on 25th May 2012, is called S.T.O.P. In Moscow And One are coming with special program "Trilogie Supershow 1" including the band's hits and new songs from this trilogie which have already performed at the European concerts. More info
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20:30 | Organ and Two Clarinets |
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19:00 | Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra of Russia |
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Performers: Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Soloists: Ailen Pritchin (violin), Andrey Yaroshinsky (piano). Conducted by Sergey Polyanichko. In program: Brahms. Concerto for violin and orchestra; Rachmaninov. Concerto # 3 for piano and orchestra. The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia for 75 years has been one of the leading orchestras of Russia and a special pride of this country's musical culture. On 27 October 2005, the name of Evgeny Fedorovich Svetlanov became part of the orchestra's official name in recognition of his invaluable contribution to Russian musical culture. In 2011 Vladimir Jurowski is appointed an artistic director of Svetlanov orchestra. The orchestra's creative biography is a succession of triumphant achievements that have secured its permanent place in the annals of world culture. Aylen Pritchin began music lessons at the age of six. Since 2005 he has been studying at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Eduard Grach. He has taken master classes with such eminent musicians as Shlomo Mintz, Yair Kless, Gyorgy Pauk, Jossif Rissin, Zakhar Bron, Hatto Beyerle, Natalia Gutman, Boris Berman and Vadim Sakharov. He has also won prizes in several competitions including the Tchaikovsky Competition in Kurashiki (Japan, 2004), Abram Ilich Yampolsky Competition in Moscow (2006), Pancho Vladigerov Competition in Shumen (Bulgaria, 2007), Canetti Competition in Haifa (Israel, 2009) and in Sion Valais (Switzerland, 2009). Aylen has given concerts in major venues in St. Petersburg and Moscow and in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Israel, France, Japan, Germany and Poland.
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