A chamber evening for those who appreciate music that can touch without words. The violin and piano will engage in a delicate conversation about memory and loss: compositions by Peteris Vasks, Fazil Say, Alexey Retinsky, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Leonid Desyatnikov will be performed. Inside - Proust's 'out-of-tune music box' and a rare feeling that the past is near. Sometimes it takes just two instruments for the hall to become truly quiet. This concert will be built around the idea of loss and search - that which disappears in the external world and unexpectedly resonates within. There is no background here: the violin and piano will work like a magnifying glass, under which doubts, hope, and the stubbornness of memory can be heard. Violinist Alyona Gulakova and pianist Yaroslav Kovalenko have assembled a program of music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Each piece has its own route: from barely noticeable movement to a flash, from bright transparency to inner tension. Peteris Vasks paints a 'White Landscape' - like a line in the snow that leads further than expected. Fazil Say responds with sharp strokes and anxiety about the destruction left by man. Alexey Retinsky takes us into the dreamy 'Bird's Dreams', where silence sounds alongside the melody. Luigi Dallapiccola argues with time, turning to baroque plasticity, while Leonid Desyatnikov in the piece 'Like an Old Street Musician...' provides a witty and dramatic commentary on the final song from Franz Schubert's 'Winterreise'. At the heart of the evening is Marcel Proust's thought about the imagination-music box, which stubbornly plays 'not that', and therefore hits the most important point most accurately. The music here does not explain - it leaves a trace: in timbre, in pause, in a short breath before a new phrase. The poster for St. Petersburg is available on KudaGo.