Larisa Novoseltseva () is a Russian singer-songwriter, composer, performer of Russian and Ukrainian folk songs and romances, and creator of project Return of the Silver Age. She is author of music and performer of songs and ballads on poems by more than forty Russian poets, mostly of the Silver Age, such as Osip Mandelstam,Fragment of presentation by Larisa Novoseltva published by her on YouTube: poem Petrograd, I do not want to die about Great Terror by Osip Mandelstam and song on poem Ballad about Black Raven by Alexander Brailovskiy ("Black Ravens" is a colloquial name for black vans of NKVD that circled around the city to pick up their victims during the Terror) Nikolay Gumilev,Giraffe, poem by Nikolay Gumilev, music and song by Larisa Novoseltseva, with English translation Boris Pasternak,Autumn, poem by Boris Pasternak about his love to Olga Ivinskaya, Marina Tsvetaeva, Maksimilian Voloshin, Konstantin Balmont,Wordlessness, a poem by Konstantin Balmont, music and song by Larisa Novoseltseva Alexander VertinskySongs of Alexander Vertinsky, performed by Larisa Novoseltseva and many others, including Bella Akhmadulina who, according to Novoseltseva, can be viewed as the last poet of Silver Age based on her poetic language and style.Interview with Larisa Novoseltseva on Russian TVLarisa Novoseltseva at Synthesis of Poetry and Music website, dedicated to Russian Romance Novoseltseva created more than 300 songs and published more than 20 music albums.A few available DVD discs She usually performs solo using guitar or piano for the accompaniment. More recently, she frequently appears with violinist Michael Czerwinski.Return of Mira Lokhvitskaya to Petersburg by Leonid Romankov, Internet newspaper Cogita.ru
Novoseltseva considers music "the missing dimension of poetry".Interview with Larisa Novoseltseva at Echo of Moscow with Boris Alekseev Together with her husband Sergei Novoseltsev, she runs the non-commercial educational project "Return of Silver Age".The good will come to your soul (Russian), "Culture and Time" magazine, №1, 2013, 05.18.13 During the project she created more than 200 songs and 50 solo concerts, published 18 music albums, and organized club "Koktebel" that runs regular meetings to discuss Russian poetry,Club Koktebel in Library of Maksimilian Voloshin , LaRomance website and made more than 150 appearances at events and gatherings in libraries, museums, art houses and clubs.Project "Return of the Silver Age" , Human rights in Russia, internet newspaperPerformance by Larisa Novoseltseva, "Kitezh. Poems to Russia", Sakharov Center The stated goal of the project is educating the public about Russian poetry of the Silver Age, after a 70-year ban or neglect during the Soviet period, and improving everyday Russian language using poetry.Romance to memory of Osip Mandelshtam, interview with Larisa Novoseltseva at RFE/RL by Marina TimashevaReturn. Silver Age. , LaRomance website
Selected discography Going after light, poetry by Osip Mandelshtam Do not leave me, my friend, Russian romance La Romance'25 – Vol 1 and Vol 2 – songs on poetry by different authors Candle, poetry by Akhmadulina and Tsvetaeva
Concerts published on YouTube Songs of Russian emigration: part 1, Tsvetaeva, Turoverov, and Teffi Maria Petrovykh, Songs on poems by Bella Akhmadulina Silver Age Lullabies
References
External links LaRomance , her official website LaRomance on YouTube Her official page at Vkontakte Her page at Synthesis of Poetry and Music website, dedicated to Russian Romance