Zlata Razdolina (Rosenfeld), composer, author and performer of her own music, was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1959. She began her career in 1978 performing her works in the artists' organization "Lenconcert" in Leningrad. She is a Laureate of many national and international music competitions. Among her awards is her laureate at the all-Russian competition celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Victory over Fascism (1985-Leningrad). The summit of her career in Russia were her Laureate awards for her musical setting of Anna Akhmatova's poem "Requiem" in the national competitions in 1988 - Moscow and 1989 -Leningrad.
Zlata was chosen to perform her composition "Requiem" during the Anna Akhmatova centennial in 1989 at the Kremlin, Moscow. The "Requiem," written for symphony orchestra, choir, and soloists, was later performed in Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, USA and Israel.
Most of her repertoire of more than six hundred romances and songs is composed of the famous Russian classical poets, A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilyov, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetayeva, A. Blok, I. Severyanin, S. Yesenin and others. These works, based on love poems, are set to music. This music has been successfully performed and accepted with great acclaim.
Mrs. Razdolina immigrated to Israel in 1990 at the summit of her career. In 1993, the famous Israeli singer, Dudu (David) Fisher dedicated a TV program to her music. She later composed the soundtrack of the Israeli television series "Kastner's Trial" directed by Uri Barabash, which received the Israeli Oscar as the best dramatic series of 1994. Since then, she has composed song-cycles of the best-known Israeli poets, Rachel, Y. Wallach, N. Yehonatan, L. Goldberg, and others.
She has written music for many theatres in St. Petersburg and recently in Israel as well as music for symphony orchestras, choirs and chamber ensembles.
Her setting of the poem 'The Song of the Murdered Jewish People' by the Holocaust poet Itzhak Katzenelson, describing the extermination of the Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto, completed in 1977, was originally composed for symphony orchestra, choirs and soloist (cantor) to be performed in Hebrew.
Razdolina raises a breathing memorial to the tradition and culture which the Nazis tried to destroy and which has emerged even through the most horrible of times. The way this young composer - who grew up in land in which freedom was a dream and antisemitism a daily occurrence - deals with the Holocaust is intriguing.
Hopefully this work will find an orchestra willing to present it live so music lovers will be able to experience the magnitude of the composition in the concert hall and not just on the radio.
Zlata Razdolina is a member of the Israeli Composers Organization, The Israeli Union of Performing Artists, The International Federation of Actors, and the International Alliance for Women in Music.
Due to funding shortage, the issued CD is only the orchestral version. Click here to find out how you can contribute to recording a full production of Ms. Razdolina's requiem.
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To contact Ms. Razdolina regarding this CD, please write to her directly at razdolin@netvision.net.il
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