Famous and little-known symphonic works by Stanislav Liudkevych, some of which will receive their first complete performance!

A concert presentation of the project “Liudkevych. Heritage” project, which aims to digitize, reissue, and popularize the works of the coryphaeus of Ukrainian music Stanislav Liudkevych (1879-1979) and is being implemented by the Composer Memorial Museum with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

The concert, performed by the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Volodymyr Syvokhip, who personally contributed to the publication of the works and joined as a scientific consultant to the project, will feature symphonic music from the late period of the composer’s work.

The symphony and four symphonic poems – “Song of the Young Men,” “Our Sea,” “Our Mountains” (“Voices of the Carpathians”), and “Dance of the Skeletons” – were composed by the composer mainly after the establishment of the Soviet occupation regime. As Liudkevych himself said: “I could not somehow learn to compose all sorts of praiseful hymns about a ‘joyful’ life on orders.” Therefore, the composer’s growing interest in the symphonic genre in the Soviet years was explained by his attempt to avoid composing on topics dictated by the authorities.

Most of the performed works require a revision of the assessment and a new reading by musicians and listeners, because behind the template dedications, the composer filigree coded the Ukrainian-centered content.

Artists:

• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor

Program:

Stanislav Liudkevych (1879-1979)

• Symphony in four movements (1940-1942)
• Symphonic poems
  • “Song of Young Men” (1945-1946)
  • “Our Sea (1954-1955)
  • “Our Mountains” (“Voices of the Carpathians”, 1963)
  • “Dance of the Skeletons” (1972)

Music editor of the project: Bohdana Frolyak

Marta Kuziy, moderator