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For Your Consideration
Rutka
The music was originally written for an unfinished film project based on a screenplay by Jasmine Bissete about Rutka Laskier, the Polish Jewish teenager whose wartime notebook became one of the most intimate testimonies of adolescence under Nazi occupation – the original film development involved screenwriter Jasmine Bissete and filmmaker Spiros Stathoulopoulos.
The film was never completed. The music remained.
Years later, Boldachev returned to the material, deepened it through later engagement with Rutka’s published diary and its historical context, and transformed it into an independent concert suite. The result is cinematic in origin, personal in expression, and shaped by the fragile relationship between memory, youth, love, and historical violence.
The film was never completed. The music remained.
Years later, Boldachev returned to the material, deepened it through later engagement with Rutka’s published diary and its historical context, and transformed it into an independent concert suite. The result is cinematic in origin, personal in expression, and shaped by the fragile relationship between memory, youth, love, and historical violence.
Rutka
The music was originally written for an unfinished film project based on a screenplay by Jasmine Bissete about Rutka Laskier, the Polish Jewish teenager whose wartime notebook became one of the most intimate testimonies of adolescence under Nazi occupation – the original film development involved screenwriter Jasmine Bissete and filmmaker Spiros Stathoulopoulos.
The film was never completed. The music remained.
Years later, Boldachev returned to the material, deepened it through later engagement with Rutka’s published diary and its historical context, and transformed it into an independent concert suite. The result is cinematic in origin, personal in expression, and shaped by the fragile relationship between memory, youth, love, and historical violence.
The film was never completed. The music remained.
Years later, Boldachev returned to the material, deepened it through later engagement with Rutka’s published diary and its historical context, and transformed it into an independent concert suite. The result is cinematic in origin, personal in expression, and shaped by the fragile relationship between memory, youth, love, and historical violence.
RUTKA: A VOICE OF HARP AND MEMORY
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Rutka is a four-part concert suite for harp, string orchestra, and percussion by Alexander Boldachev about memory, the Holocaust, love, and death.
Listen “The Suite does not claim to reconstruct or explain Rutka’s biography. It is an artistic image based on another artistic interpretation. For me, it became the voice of something written, hidden, interrupted, and still alive.”
This distinction is essential to the project. Rutka is neither a historical reconstruction nor a literal soundtrack to a film. It is a remembrance work: a concert suite born from a film that disappeared, and about a story that must not disappear.
The four movements — Main Theme, Liebesleid, Waltz of Memories and Tears and Ashes — accumulate traces of the movie, the diary, the BBC documentary, and Alexander’s own thoughts. That makes this work so complete and accomplished.
Composer, Soloist, and Conductor: Alexander Boldachev
Produced by Alexander Boldachev and Sergey Nesterov
Arranged for orchestra by Sergey Nesterov
Additional production by Francesco De Grazia and Arielle Krebs
Recorded and mixed by Edgardo Vertanessian
Edited by Octavian Musetoiu
ATMOS Mixing by Julián Bonino
Mastered by Edgardo Vertanessian
Executive Producer: Edgardo Vertanessian
— Alexander Boldachev
This distinction is essential to the project. Rutka is neither a historical reconstruction nor a literal soundtrack to a film. It is a remembrance work: a concert suite born from a film that disappeared, and about a story that must not disappear.
The four movements — Main Theme, Liebesleid, Waltz of Memories and Tears and Ashes — accumulate traces of the movie, the diary, the BBC documentary, and Alexander’s own thoughts. That makes this work so complete and accomplished.
CREDITS
Composer, Soloist, and Conductor: Alexander Boldachev
Produced by Alexander Boldachev and Sergey Nesterov
Arranged for orchestra by Sergey Nesterov
Additional production by Francesco De Grazia and Arielle Krebs
Recorded and mixed by Edgardo Vertanessian
Edited by Octavian Musetoiu
ATMOS Mixing by Julián Bonino
Mastered by Edgardo Vertanessian
Executive Producer: Edgardo Vertanessian
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