Basia Rubin (1898-1985) is a composer of almost unknown Jewish origin.

Her family - her parents, seven sisters and a brother - lived in the town of Dolginovo, then part of the Russian Empire (now Belarus). Basia was a dentist, but in her spare time she devoted herself to music. She wrote over 200 compositions, mostly vocal lyrics. Many of her songs are based on her own Yiddish lyrics. Rubin's compositions include a lot of music for children and even a children's opera.

In June 1941, Dolginov was bombed, leaving only the four sisters of the large family of Basia. Basia's life was saved by music - she was on a trip to Minsk to present her works, so she survived. She never returned to her homeland. She died in Vileika, Belarus.

Several of the songs on the CD show the longing of the members of Basia's family who died.

Singer (soprano) and vocal teacher Ekaterina Somicheva is an active performer in Germany and other European countries, with a wide repertoire ranging from Sephardic songs to contemporary composers, from operas to concerts, from operettas to religious music. She has created memorable roles in operas such as Handel's Julius Caesar, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Eugene Onegin, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, All the Same, Don Juan, Verdi's La Traviata, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and others.

Ekaterina studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in St. Petersburg under the guidance of Professor Yelena Oparina.

She has been a soloist at the Dusseldorf Lyric Opera since 2020. As a vocal pedagogue, she participates in Ekaterina Porizko's projects (Bach's St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, MeerMusik Festival).

Ekaterina Porizko is an organist, pianist, conductor, and the artistic director of performances. Since 2011 she has been performing in the Baltic States, other European countries and Ukraine. Since 2007, she has been winning international competitions as a composer, conductor and organist.

Since 2014, she has been actively conducting F. Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah", S. Taneyev's cantata "John of Damascus", Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Passion according to Matthew" and Christmas oratorio, W. A. Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro", G. Verdi's The Royal Hour and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, symphonic works by Grieg, van Beethoven and Fauré.

Since 2016, the orchestra has been performing the following works. She is the founder and artistic director of the international festivals Turm und Klang in Eslingen, Germany, the Carillon Festival in Stuttgart and the MeerMusik Festival in Merbusch. Since 2023, she has been the director of the charitable foundation for professional musicians "Fresh Classics" (Klassi aber frisch).