Madrigal, romantic lyricism, and choral colors of the 20th century converge in one evening: the Saint Petersburg Singing Chapel leads through the Western European tradition from chamber elegance to full-bodied sound. The program includes Schubert, Brahms, and Ravel. Sometimes it takes just a few chords to understand: the choir is a living organism, where each part breathes and argues with its neighbor. In this program, the Saint Petersburg Singing Chapel addresses Western European choral music of the 19th and 20th centuries and shows how the language of vocal ensemble has changed - from refined chamber music to a rich, almost orchestral palette. At the core of the evening are European madrigals and choral pages, where nuances are important. Here you can hear how the same human gesture - acknowledgment, irony, quiet prayer, or joy - sounds differently in various eras and schools. The program is built around the works of Schubert, Brahms, and Ravel: composers whose intonations are easily recognizable, but it is especially interesting to consider them in a choral 'approach', where the melody lives simultaneously in several registers. At the podium will be conductor Nikolai Kurbatov. His work in such repertoire is particularly noticeable: the choir will maintain the line without losing flexibility, and the large episodes will remain focused and clear. You will hear how the density of sound changes, how volume is born from the fine fabric of voices, and how important pauses are - sometimes they speak as much as loud climaxes. Even if you rarely attend concerts of academic music, this concert helps to grasp the form without hints - by how the voices converge and diverge, how the climaxes build, and how silence becomes part of the design.