THE IRONY OF FATE

When he died in November 2015, Eldar Ryazanov left behind an astonishing fifty year, thirty movie legacy which included some of the most popular Russian films of the modern age. And of all of them, the one that remains the most popular is 'The Irony of Fate', a comedy made for MOS film in 1975. But The Irony of Fate owes part of it's immense popularity not just to it's genius director, it's clever comedy, it's satirical subplot or it's starring actors. It is a film with songs. And those songs and the underscore that accompanied them have become as memorable as the film itself, they have become part of the Russian musical DNA, recognised even when the name of their composer, Mikael Tariverdiev, is not. Following the award-nominated 'Film Music' collection of last year, comes the first in a series of stand-alone reissues documenting the astonishing body of work by Russian composer Mikael Tariverdiev.

Release Date: 2016.11.25

1 Overture
2 What Is Happening to Me?
3 Hope
4 Expectation of the New Year
5 No One Is Home
6 Snow Over Leningrad
7 Po Ulitse Moei Kotoriy God
8 On the Third Stroiteley Street
9 On Tikhoretskaya
10 Happy New Year!
11 I Like
12 Aria for a Moscow Guest
13 The Last Waltz
14 I Ask the Mirror
15 I Ask the Ash Tree
16 Don Not Leave Your Lover
17 Melody