To the artists who fell for Ukraine

Foyer of the Lviv National Philharmonic 2024 

June 28, 19:00 Friday

Baroque l’immortelle

Music can become an extensive dictionary of feelings – an idea that Baroque composers put into their artworks on rhetorical figures; these records could decipher every melody by turning it into a story. However, the most valuable thing is that almost half a millennium ago people listened to music and experienced similar feelings to ours. Mysterious references on the pages of the scores will be retransmitted by the Terra Barocca Early Music Ensemble. Their program includes eight unique works of the Baroque period, both the creations of legendary masters and music by unfairly forgotten composers.

Artists:

• • Early music ensemble “Terra Barocca”:

• Serhii Havryliuk, baroque violin, viola

• Mykhailo Solonchenko, violin

• Yaroslav Myhal, cello

• • Anna Ivaniushenko, harpsichord 

The program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Stanislav Sylvester Skarżyński, Johann Jakob Froberger, Henry Purcell, Claude Balbatre, Jean-Ferri Rebel, Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, and Antonio Vivaldi. 

Liudkevych Concert Hall 2024 

June 29, 17:00 Saturday

Prayer for Wassyl

The concert program will focus on chamber music by both contemporary composers and representatives of the late Romantic era. All the selected works, written in the individual style of each of the artists, reflect the main trends in the development of Ukrainian instrumental music. Together, the works by Barvinskyi, Liatoshynskyi, Havrylets, Lysenko, and Skoryk will become a prayerful remembrance of the hero of Ukraine Wassyl Slipak. Compositions will be performed by the Phoenix Quartet and Violina Petrychenko.

Artists:

Phoenix String Quartet:

• Mykola Haviuk, violin

• Petro Titiaiev, violin

• Vadym Pedorych, viola

• Denys Lytvynenko, cello

• Violina Petrychenko, piano

The program includes works by Hanna Havrylets, Mykola Lysenko, Myroslav Skoryk, Vasyl Barvinskyi, and Borys Liatoshynskyi.

Stage of the Liudkevych Concert Hall 2024 

June 29, 20:00 Saturday

Dialogue of Our Time 

The new ensemble “etc.duo” consisting of young performers Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv and Roksoliana Kit promotes contemporary Ukrainian music. Music that is rarely heard at concert venues, music about what remains behind the scenes. Music about something different, but familiar to each of us; it is the music that you will definitely like. The common point is Ukrainian contemporary music, which “etc.duo” performs at each of their concerts, and in particular at this concert you will hear a dialogue between the works of the latest time, vividly interpreted by the performers.

Artists:

“etc.duo” ensemble: 

• Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv, flute

• Roksolana Kit, piano

The program includes works by Mykola Lysenko, Yevhen Stankovych, Anton Rudnytskyi, Hanna Havrylets, Viktor Kaminskyi, and Yurii Ishchenko. 

Lyudkevych Concert Hall 2024

June 30, 17:00 Sunday

“I’m Not Afraid”

The famous symphonic music, imbued with drama and freedom-loving spirit, is so close to Ukrainians today. “I am not afraid of anything. Only God” – these famous words of the opera singer, Hero of Ukraine Wassyl Slipak gave the concert its title. The famous work by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was not accidentally chosen for the program of the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra as part of the marathon in memory of Wassyl Slipak, also reflects the unbreakable will to win. The symbolic and inspirational story of Count Egmont from the Netherlands is told in the music of the overture of the same name. One of the most popular examples of the Polish musical avant-garde, the Symphony of Mourning Songs by Henryk Gorecki, will also be performed. Written for orchestra and solo female voice, this work focuses the audience’s attention on the image of a mother in grief, mourning her dead son, symbolically correlated to the Virgin Mary and at the same time to the victims of the Second World War.

Artists:

• Liliia Nikitchuk, mezzo-soprano

• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

• Marta Kluczynska, conductor (Poland)

Program:

• Ludwig van Beethoven. Overture “Egmont”

• Henryk Gorecki. Symphony No. 3

Liudkevych Concert Hall 2024

June 30, 20:00 Sunday

From France with love 

The last event of the marathon will build another symbolic bridge between Ukraine and France: the Philharmonic Hall will be transformed into the Paris Opera for one evening, with Wassyl Slipak as its soloist. It is here that the paths of the maestros of French music – Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz – will converge, and this is not the whole list of composers who will be performed by the marathon guest Serine de Labaume and Lviv pianists Oksana Rapita and Myroslav Dragan.

Artists:

• Serine de Labaume, soprano

• Oksana Rapita, piano

• Myroslav Dragan, piano

The program includes works by Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, Georges Bizet, Reinaldo Gan, Pauline Viardot, Hector Berlioz and Leo Delibes.