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Vermicelli Orchestra
"Marcus Aurelius"

Vermicelli Orchestra  is a group of St.Petersburg accordionist and concertmaster Sergey Schurakov, who died in 2007. He used to play in several memberships of "Aquarium", worked with Sergey Kuryokhin's "Pop-mechanica" and with the "Trilistnik" of Dusha Romanov, recorded with Leonid Fedorov, "Kolibri" and in the project "Mitkovskie Pesni". "Marcus Aurelius" is the music which was written for a documentary of the same name, but then grew into something more serious. The form is a suite in ethno-art-rock style.

CD

  track listing  
1 Marcus Aurelius  
2 A Statue  
3 Choral  
4 Barbarians  
5 Mindfulness  
6 The Emperor  
7 The Reign  
8 Reminiscenses  
9 Parting Words  
10 Reflexion  
11 Shelter  
12 Silence  
13 Final  


The music is used in Maxim Ladygin's documentery "Marcus Aurelius. The last triumph of the Emperor" (broadcast company "Altair-TV").

"Vermicelli Orchestra":
Sergey Schurakov – mandolin 8
Timur Bogatyrev – flute
Natalia Marashova – mandolin
Ilya Rozovskiy – guitar
Mikhail Ivanov – bass-guitar
Yulia Rychagova – cello, solo in 5
Ekaterina Markova – violin, solo in 2
Ksenia Petrash – violin, solo in 2, 3, 8, 11
Victoria Velkova – violin
Ksenia Kosyachenko – viola, solo in 9
Tatyana Gromova – viola

Music – Sergey Schurakov
Orchesration – Sergey Schurakov
Sound – Artem Tamazov
Producer – Artem Tamazov

Recorded in the studio ซStrannikป, St.Petersburg, in 2004
Designer – Alexander Yakovlev
Artist – Anton Ochirov