Vyacheslav Mescherin Orchestra
Vyacheslav Mescherin Orchestra
Genres: easy listening, lounge, library music, synthpop, elevator music
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About Vyacheslav Mescherin Orchestra
Vyacheslav Mescherin (Russian: Вячеслав Валерианович Мещерин, 1923-1995) was a Soviet musician who used synthesizers to produce his music. From the fifties until the late eighties he was the director of the Moscow Orchestra of Electromusical Instruments. It was informally known as Vyacheslav Mescherin Orchestra, and for some quirk of translation, Mescherin's name entered many song lists in the form of Vyacheslav Orchestra Mescherin. He was the first to use synthesizers in the Soviet Union, which at the the time were self-made. Meshcherin pioneered the use of mixed consoles, sound adapters on accordions, violins, harps and guitars, and he combined the timbres of rare ethnic musical instruments using the then-latest achievements of science and technology. The ensemble of electronic instruments he established in 1956 was the first of its kind, not only in the Soviet Union, but in the world. In the Soviet Union, Mescherin's music could be heard virtually everywhere, in elevators, on television; the Soviet government asked him to prepare a version of the Internationale (The former national anthem and anthem of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) for use in a Sputnik satellite in 1957. He recorded a few hundred tracks for TV and radio: for animated cartoon soundtracks, as background music accompanying television announcements and popular-science films, etc., though it was not identified as a genre and the authors' names, in contrast to the tunes themselves, were rarely known to the broader public. His tune "At the Kolkhoz Poultry Farm" became famous as a soundtrack for the enormously popular animated cartoon "Nu Pogodi". Mescherin's music has been collected in two albums entitled Easy USSR Volumes I and II (1960s and '70s, and 1970s and '80s, respectively). He produced over 1,000 music tracks all of which are archived in the old Soviet Sound Recording Museum in Moscow. In the last years before his death Lydia Kavina played in his orchestra.
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