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TALISMAN
was formed in the year 2000 by baroque specialist soprano Anne Harley
and guitarist Oleg Timofeyev, the world's leading authority on the
Russian guitar tradition. Independently from each other, both founding
members were puzzled for years why no Russian music prior to the
times of Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky enjoys any popularity in the
West. Combining archival research in the former Soviet Union with
performance practice studies, TALISMAN's
mandate is to bring undiscovered treasures of Russian early music
to light for the first time in hundreds of years.
TALISMAN's first recording, Music
of Russian Princesses (Dorian), was awarded the Noah Greenberg
Award in 2001. It was highly acclaimed by Gramophone and deemed
"excellent in every way" by Early Music America. Their
second release, A Tribute to Stesha: Russian Gypsy Diva appeared
this year on Naxos, featuring the collaboration of the renowned
Russian Gypsy group from Moscow's Romen Theatre: The Kolpakov
Trio. Their recording of the music described in scenes from
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov is due for release on CD
next year.
TALISMAN has performed
at venues in the USA such as Harvard, Yale, Brown, Wellesley College,
Oberlin College, and the Gorky and Richter Museums in Moscow.
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