Strong international ties have always been a part of Ukrainian music history and the Virtuosos Festival in particular. That is why on May 24, the Lviv Philharmonic will host a concert of Ukrainian, Polish, and Franco-Swiss composers conducted by Vincent Kozlowski, a renowned Polish conductor. The soloist is Andriy Pavlov, and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic will perform.

In the early 1920s, the most prominent Ukrainian symphonist of the century, Borys Liatoshynskyi was shaped as a vivid modernist. At that time, the young Karol Szymanowski from Tymoshivka (now a village near Kropyvnytskyi) traveled to Warsaw to study. Pierre Wissmer, a future post-Romantic artist, was taking his first steps in music. Over the next few decades, they would compose large-scale works of the highest quality, of symphonic power, full of devotion to the depths of their peoples’ folklore.

Artists:

• Andrii Pavlov, violin
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Vincent Kozlovsky, conductor

Program:

• Borys Liatoshynskyi (1895-1968). “Polish Suite” (1961)
• Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937). Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra (1933)
• Pierre Wissmer (1915-1992). Symphony No. 7 (1984)

With the support of Action Musicale Pierre Wissmer

Partner: Liatoshynsky Foundation