Virtuosos 44. KOSENKO, STANKOVYCH, WISSMER

Artist:

• Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra 
• Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor

Program:

• Yevhen Stankovych (1942*). Symphonic suite from the music to the movie Roksolana (1996)
• Pierre Wissmer (1915-1992). L’Enfant et la rose based on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Theme and introduction
  • Les moutons
  • La planète
  • La fleur
  • Visite de diverses planètes
  • Dialogue avec le serpent
  • Intermezzo. A la recherche des hommes
  • Le jardin fleuri de roses
  • Le renard
  • “La recherche d’un puits
  • Le puits qui chante
  • Séparation
  • Nouvel entretien avec le serpent et retour de l’aviateur
  • Final. Mort du petit prince et Retour du petit prince à sa planète
• Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938). Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 6

“The heart is the only one that is alert. You can’t see the most important things with your eyes,” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s little prince says to us from a thin book. The musicians of the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra know that the heart can not only see the most important things, but also hear them. That is why the music of the Swiss and French postromantic Pierre Wissmer, who combined fantastic landscapes of distant planets with the tenderness of care and warmth of friendship, will help to restore the simple and painful truths of the fairy tale about a boy and his rose this evening.

The work by Viktor Kosenko, a composer who nurtured romanticism in the Ukrainian twentieth century, is equally border-centered. The violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv’s virtuoso solo will lead the audience through the stormy waves of feelings of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor. A kaleidoscope of rich images will be complemented by a symphonic suite from the music to the movie Roksolana by our contemporary Yevhen Stankovych.