Nataliia Gordieieva and Violina Petrychenko will provide an intelligent chamber conversation about Ukraine. It is not even worth mentioning that these are young, ambitious performers who perform at leading venues. But important it is to say that the degree of their immersion in delicate sound, the elegance of forms, and, as a result, the high flight of musical thought, is always as great as possible. The concert “Ukrainian Poem”, like this genre of poem itself, originates from an ancient literary tradition, and firmly connects elements of the past and the present. 

Here, beauty and nostalgia merge together to form palimpsests of someone’s thoughts, which now have to be transformed into their own conclusions by an attentive listener. How did the vicissitudes of life unexpectedly lead the entire culture from Lysenko’s light, homey Biedermeier to the tender simplicity of Skoryk’s Melody? What are the semantic parallels between Beethoven’s variations and Kosenko’s piece?

Of course, the program does not hide from the signs of our time. New works by Morten Jessen and Taras Zdaniuk will be performed as a heartbreaking reminder of Kyiv nowadays and the air raids across Ukraine.

Artists:

• Nataliia Hordieieva, violin 

• Violina Petrychenko, piano

Program:

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Variations on a Ukrainian theme

• Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912). Elegy in Memory of Shevchenko 

• • “The Moment of Despair”

• Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938). “Dreams”

• Stanislav Liudkevych (1879-1979). “Lamentations”

• Morten Jessen (1985). “Kyiv”

• Taras Zdaniuk (1999). “07:12. The First Air Raid”

• Yevhen Stankovych (1942). “Ukrainian Poem”

• Julius Meitus (1903-1997). Three Pieces

• • • Poem
    • Nocturne 
    • Allegro

• Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020). “Melody”

• • “Carpathian Rhapsody”

Moderator: Mariia Sydorak