Pulsars, visionaries, and creators of the artistic continuum around us – this is how we can characterize the composers whose works are included in the program of the Phoenix String Quartet. Their destinies were not directly intertwined, but, engraved on the tablets of history, they are somehow connected in the world consciousness.

They will sound: The First Quartet by Karol Szymanowski, a Pole whose family roots stretched all the way back to Tymoshivka in what is now Cherkasy Region; String Quartet No. 4 by Simon Laks, a Jew who led the Auschwitz prisoner orchestra; a pro-European reinterpretation of Ukrainian folk themes written at the height of World War II in the Fourth String Quartet by Borys Liatoshynskyi; and the authentic sound depths of Inventions by Oleksandr Kozarenko, a Ukrainian Ruthenian.

Artists:

String quartet “Phoenix”

• Mykola Haviuk, violin
• Petro Tityaev, violin
• Vadym Pedorych, viola
• Denys Lytvynenko, cello

Program:

• Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937). String Quartet No. 1, op. 37 (1917)
• Simon Laks (1901-1983). String Quartet No. 4 (1962)
• Borys Liatoshynskyi (1895-1968). String Quartet No. 4 (suite based on Ukrainian folk songs) in D minor, op. 43 (1944)
• Oleksandr Kozarenko (1963-2023). “Three inventions for four melodic instruments” (1988)

With the support of the Liatoshynsky Foundation