Arkady Shilkloper - Arkady Shilkloper - Presente Para Moscow (2003)

The story of the album You hold in your hands began in February 2000, when my colleagues at the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Brazilian guitarist Alegre Correa and Austrian bassist Georg Brinsmead at my invitation first arrived in Moscow. Having met in Sheremetyevo, successfully passed passport and customs control and briefly acquainted with the history of the airport, we moved to the bus waiting for us. Suddenly, Alegre stopped and frantically looked for something in his bag and finally took out a sheet of sheet music paper; sitting in the bus and showing no interest to the winter landscape of Moscow, he became absorbed in writing a theme, which was just ready for the arrival to the hotel. Alegre dedicated it to Moscow and called it "Presente para Moscou"("Gift to Moscow"). Each of the 12 guests-musicians participating in the recordings, which will be discussed later, gave Moscow and the Moscow public a piece of his soul, love and talent, so the name of the song Alegre"Gift to Moscow" is the best suited as the name of the album.