The program explores the Russian musical character through folk songs, lullabies, national intonations, and compositions by Shchedrin, Stravinsky, Vustin, Korolev, and Korndorf. The mezzo-soprano voice and piano will connect lyricism, irony, pagan motifs, and the nerve of academic music, transforming familiar melodic roots into a lively conversation about love, faith, and memory. The Russian musical tradition in this program sounds dynamic, contradictory, and far from museum-like. It is offered for consideration through songs, folk songs, lullabies, piano pieces, and compositions where folk intonation meets the personal perspective of composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. The focus is not on a postcard with familiar symbols, but on a living mixture of tenderness, pain, humor, faith, pagan echoes, and inner anxiety. Listeners can expect excerpts from Rodion Shchedrin's folk opera "Not Only Love" and pieces from the ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse." For the first time at this venue, Anatoly Korolev's "A Little Guide to Russian Folk Songs" will be performed by pianist Herman Markhasin. The vocal line of the program is connected to rare pages of Igor Stravinsky and Alexander Vustin: their compositions allow us to hear how the folk material changes in the hands of authors accustomed to thinking freely and precisely. Entertainment in Yekaterinburg is collected on our website.