at first polotsk received us somehow unfriendly, it was kind of gray and rainy, but over the 33 years that we have been living here, it is constantly changing for the better , since we are already family here, and it is dear to us, and we, of course, perceive everything with love. all the changes, but judging by the way tourists come here, how they carefully walk around all our museums, how curiously they are very interested in history, interested in music, we can conclude that polotsk is truly the cultural capital of belarus, that’s the whole story, it doesn’t go away without a trace, the personalities who

are invisibly present here, therefore, probably, polack is special, special, especially loved, and this is the center of historical cultural spirituality, so i would say so for belarus, such a philosophical city, it does not have such a hectic life of the capital , but... there is an opportunity to think, there is an opportunity to realize, there is an opportunity to feel like a resident of polotsk, a resident of polotsk, a polotsk resident, to join the culture and feel like a part of this culture, so, in the capital’s life, you have to go there, there necessary of course, to develop, but in order to think, realize, go deeper, you

probably need to live in a city like polotsk. in vladivostok, for the first time i received a postcard from veviana safronitskaya that she was being assigned to the st. sophia cathedral, this is 1985, she will be the organist of the st. sophia cathedral in polotsk, i actually thought that she was going to bulgaria to work.

here time, it seems to stop, the feeling that you are in some other world, maybe you don’t even belong to yourself, here you are doing what someone somehow asks you to do from within, probably so one might say, polotsk and st. sophia cathedral are truly the soul of belarus and working here is a great honor and pleasure. and

there is always such a feeling when you approach the cathedral, there is a different atmosphere, a different aura, and so you fly a little, and here he is flying overhead. it’s like such a big white ship, and you argue with it a little, and somehow it’s good, here all the worries and worries go away, here somehow it has its own atmosphere, its own aura, now let’s go to work, the staircase leading to the cargan. well, like this, every day to work, like on a holiday, let's go quickly, the artepian teacher at the music school let me

listen to bach's music, and it really, really amazed me, that is, this sound, and then for the first time, my mother gave me a trip to... for my eighteenth birthday...

we're coming there for a rehearsal, a rehearsal, as they say, before a concert, it’s just like i’ve never seen an organ, and there’s a wedding there, it ’s a working church, and it’s impossible, well, well, it’s people’s wedding, that is , i didn’t stay there for the rehearsal i know, but half an hour can be

a maximum, and the concert is an hour long, and that was of course there is such stress, such moments, of course, give you experience when you love your organ even more, anna korotkina wrote hers... managed to play, he died there a year before, but these are the organs of this master, precisely the work of hahn sebastian bach i played there, this is, of course, also an unforgettable feeling, this is space, if we talk about concert organs on which

you can play a full concert, i know four instruments, this is in the belarusian state philharmonic in the large hall, in the church of st. roch in the cathedral church, this is in minsk in sofi'. of course, i didn’t play, they say it’s bad, probably the organist plays if they fall asleep at a concert, but after one incident i think that this is not bad, this is also some kind of perception of music, because once after a concert on such a sunday , there were a lot of tourists, an elderly woman came up to me

and said: “oh, baby, thank you so much, oh, how i rested, i even fell asleep, and i dreamed about my village and my mother... “our chickens, you know, that’s what, but a person can, as it were, rest, i slept, and even what was dear, close, well, obviously, that woman probably didn’t have a mother. alive, she was probably already about 70 years old, yes, like this, these were the revelations, and i thought, why not, why not get some sleep, maybe even this is a cure for insomnia, come, listen to organ music, sleep for an hour.

we met very far from here in the city of vladivostok, where we actually graduated from the ufa institute of arts, arts, and i graduated from the moscow conservatory we were working out assignments, that’s where we met at the far eastern institute of arts, and then we came here. we already had a daughter, yulia, and, as a matter of fact, we didn’t immediately start doing creative work together in the st. sophia cathedral, but gradually we came to the idea that it would be nice to create such a chamber orchestra, which in polotsk, in principle, is not so easy, because our composition is such that some of our artists live in polotsk, some in novopolotsk, at the station they got off the train in autumn, and somehow

everything was so gray, and somehow everything was so sad, and somehow we reached the st. sophia cathedral in poltsk, we went in, and we were stupefied, it was just after the restoration, and somehow right away, well, that’s how love happens at first sight, so... it obviously happened, well the question was, in fact, already resolved, as if the work of the soloist of the st. sophia cathedral, we are raising a daughter, arseny is born here, who is pushed in a wheelchair by the servants of the st. sophia cathedral, there is a concert around the cathedral at that time, and ksenia plays for tourists, well, there were several years, then somehow, because it’s impossible to sit on maternity leave, need to play. we have to work in everyday life, well, like all people, lord, somewhere a faucet is leaking,

we call a friend, help with everyday life, well, ksenia cooks, i cook, lately ksenia cooks more often, it’s delicious, it’s your responsibility, it’s mine duty, there we somehow collectively decide it all there, well , like in ordinary families, we argue about something, something. sometimes we don’t argue, we listen a lot, because we need to tune in, we need to talk about tempos, about character, let’s say we are preparing for a concert, we discuss it all, there is music in my house constantly, it cultivates a subtle attitude towards any matter, nothing gives such an idea, such imagination, such fantasy, such numerous skills, coordination, visual, auditory, to combine all this into one, like... music, where else? i think that children should be given more, and

then they will choose, if there was no ability, we would not teach, sorry, i just immediately remembered how arseny sits on the potty and conducts beethoven, and well, yes, yes, yes, that is, it was such a story, no, well, for example, the daughter, she sang all the time, then, when we sent her to a music school - piano, she didn’t want to, because to teach what was assigned to her there, she... composed something, composed it very interestingly, that ’s why she went to composition, organs too somehow i got carried away, my son somehow didn’t react to the organ, he’s more attracted to some kind of modern music, sound engineering is attractive, although he’s an excellent pianist, sometimes when it was summer, let’s say, you want to open the window because it’s hot, that’s it. .. such a case the son was engaged in, the people listened, then he had a break there, they clapped there

from the street, playing an instrument, it develops very much, that is, such immense processes take place in the brain, because exactly as you say, coordination, then at the same time you need to hear and see and coordinate at the same time create some...very developing. a good morning should start with a proper breakfast. tell me, what are you and i going to cook today? today you and i will prepare a rather unusual

breakfast, it will be in an asian style, it will be spring rolls with a sea cocktail. tell me what we have for breakfast today. champion, and today we will have pink salmon meatballs with salad, this will be an unusual breakfast, very tasty, we can’t wait to start, we will help you choose the products to make the first meal tasty and healthy, we choose greens, we need spinach, know that you should only buy fresh ones , elastic leaves, bright green, the color of the bean depends solely on the variety, the pod itself must be: intact, without any spots or dents. let's not forget about invigorating exercises. we stand, clasp our hands, raise up, lean forward, knees straight, you can bend your back a little, lean down, again keep your knees straight, feet fully on the floor, rise

up, watch the breakfast of the champion program on our tv channel. the lasso is wonderful, we are friends, we have such a respectful attitude towards each other, this instrument is a czech regerklos, it was installed by special order in the st. sophia cathedral in 1985, acousticians came, studied the acoustics of the st. sophia cathedral and the instrument, in principle , is ideal - for our st. sophia cathedral, this is such a medium-sized instrument, that is, it has three manuals, which are played with the hands, a foot keyboard, a pedal keyboard, uh, where they play with the heel, the toe, uh, in general, there can be different combinations, our organ has 48 registers , these are 48 voices

that, uh, sound in different colors, there is, for example, a beautiful one: a flute on the third manual, there is a wonderful oboe, also on the third manual, there is a wonderful cromhorn, or also an english horn. on the first manual we have a trumpet voice, very beautiful on the whole st. sophia cathedral, the general sonority of the organ can be turned on with one button, called tutti, and played.

this is the echo, 4.5 seconds. the era of romanticism brought such a wonderful device to organ building as the walzer. by rotating just this roller, we can achieve great things. that is, a large amplification of sound, for example, an organization can have both hands and legs occupied, and switch, for example,

registers in time, that is, what he programmed. in advance, an assistant helps him, the assistant always looks at notes, because in the notes the organist writes down exactly those changes in sound, those combinations that he programmed at the rehearsal, so the assistant performs a very important function, he must be able to read notes, so turn everything on in time, actually this is an organ brass, because here are all the pipes that we see on the organ avenue, they are all... real, they are all playing and inside there are three more floors of pipes, on which there are 3,905 of them in total, here there is a key that is like in an ignition machine. .. turns on the engine, now here it is turned on, this motor drives such a large fan, the blades are so large that pump air, and it

flows under pressure into special tanks, we see some of them on the prospectus, these tanks are called venladas, they are made hermetically sealed inside, they contain if there were pipes, at the moment when the organist turns on... with the motor turned on , a certain register, so i just turned on these pipes, now air goes there to the pipes, it is available, then, when the finger presses the key, the plug opens there is something like this, air under pressure enters the pipe, then everything is very simple, because it works like a whistle, it starts blowing, that’s it. which means there is such an abstract attached to the key, it’s like a rack, it means it’s attached to the key with a hook, the hook is attached to this

cork, which is located in the screw, the hook opens this cork, the air passes through, the tube sounds, which means the smaller the tube, the thinner it is , the thicker it is, it ’s like that, then it sounds... here, the temperament depends on the alloy, on the material, this means that it also depends on the shape of the pipe, here on the avenue we see labial pipes, the main pipes of the organ, why labial, because labos is a mouth in ancient greek, that’s how the mouth is marked on the pipe, there are also brass, copper, soft such metals, different... melts have a slightly different sound, uh, wooden pipes, wooden pipes have a soft sound, for example, these could

be square pipes, just wooden ones, they are square, well, mm, in fact, it depends on the material and the paint depends on the shape, it depends on the size height, in general, everything seems to be simple, but... everything is quite complicated, a wonderful organ, wonderful acoustics, a wonderful city, we tried to make everyone very welcome, the fact is that there have never been bells on the bell tower of the st. sophia cathedral, so it was decided to give the name of the organ festival the bells of sophia, as if the organ is the voice of the sophia cathedral, something very good...

slow music is something boring, yes, it’s boring, as a rule, they say that, yes, suddenly, this is what happens to people, this is moment, slow music, here's the vulgar,

the second part, after it claps most of all, what a person lacks, obviously this, this is harmony, lyricism, peace, some kind of subtlety, spiritual subtlety, probably because the praticism of life, as if yes, completely captivates us, well... yes, home, work, work, home, problems, worries, these are all, that is, everything is squared, as they say, something arises here harmonious, these are emotions, the feeling when it’s all together, then when in the hall also a response, but this, that is, there is the word catharsis, which is very rarely used, especially lately, this... the rare word nobility also occurs, this is the state of the soul, nobility, a subtle sense of other people,

a subtle feeling, that is, in general , these... in a word, st. sophia cathedral is a spiritual home, i am a happy person, yes, because work, as they say, work is like a holiday, everyone should probably find some kind of niche, and it is a great success when you find and feel in this niche is a happy person, everything passes, but music is eternal, i have a lot of favorite music, but in this situation. bach, i appeal to you, lord, very popular music, but i’ve probably played it thousands of times, but now for some reason i want to play it.

lukashenko, he is not a politician, he is a leader who is not interested in the next elections, but in the next generation, he is not trying to please us first, he works so that we like his decisions and the result of his work. it's my job to sit and think, using experience and my own knowledge, i have to predict if this is...

on sunday, march 31st, we will sum up the results of the day together in the vladislav studio.