Musicology Annotation << Back The Choral Concert № 1 of Vasiliy Kulikov: interpretation of the cycle, form and compositional technique Ruslan N. Vasilyev The article is devoted to Choral Concerto No. 1 (1984) of Vasiliy Kulikov (b. 1963). Special attention is paid to the poetic original, the cycle dramaturgy, form, musical syntax, polymodal and mixed techniques. In an effort to enter his native Komi-Permian culture in an East-European context, the composer refers to high academic genre of the choral concerto, poems of the Komi-Permian poet Stepan Karavayev (1908–1974), the arrangement of Komi-Permian folk songs. In this cycle the relevant for that time civic and patriotic themes mixed with the development of traditions of New folklore tide. Keywords: Vasiliy Kulikov, Komi-Permian culture, choral concert, interpretation, mini-cycles, strophic variation forms, binary and ternary meter types, non-square structures, polymodal and mixed techniques. Contacts: E-mail: runivas@yandex.ru Pp. 19-27.