Virtuosos 44. SOLOISTS&VIRTUOSOS

Artists:

• Stepan Syvokhip, oboe
• Serhii Havryliuk, violin
• Oksana Lytvynenko, cello
• Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra
• Serhii Burko, conductor

Program:

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Symphony for String Orchestra No. 10
• Ottorino Respighi – Adagio con variazioni for cello and orchestra
• Mykola Lysenko – Bohdana Frolyak – Elegy “Sorrow” for cello and strings
• Antonio Pasculli – Concerto on themes from Donizetti’s opera La favorita (Concerto sopra motivi dell’opera “La favorita” di
• Donizetti)
• Oleksandr Kozarenko – Sinfonia Estravaganza
• Alla Sirenko – Chaconne of Resistance for violin and string orchestra (2024, premiere)
• Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3
  • Italiana
  • Arie di corte
  • Siciliana
  • Passacaglia

Host – Mariia Levkovych

This concert is a time palette: from baroque echoes to contemporary anxiety, from Mendelssohn’s youthful inspiration to Pasculli’s dazzling oboe virtuosity. The program weaves together voices of centuries, nations, and individualities into a unified, pulsating musical organism.

At the heart of this movement is the Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Serhii Burko. They will guide the audience through Mendelssohn’s symphonic world — where every note sings with the spontaneous joy of creation — into the deep, soulful Adagio con variazioni by Respighi, which will reveal the full lyricism and warmth of the cello in the hands of Oksana Lytvynenko.

Mykola Lysenko’s Elegy “Sorrow” (in an orchestration by Bohdana Frolyak) offers the emotional counterpoint of the evening — tender, yet sharp as a memory. Then comes a burst of color: Antonio Pasculli draws us into the Italian opera scene through the virtuosic passages of Stepan Syvohip’s oboe. Striking technique, fluid lines, near-theatrical expressiveness — this work doesn’t just play, it breathes.

Oleksandr Kozarenko’s Sinfonia Estravaganza will sound like a musical riddle — an intellectual play with form, style, and context. Its decoding will linger in memory as an echo of surprise. The evening concludes with two mirrored moments: the premiere of Chaconne of Resistance by Alla Sirenko, performed by Serhii Havryliuk, voices the tension of the present day. And finally, Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 — like sunrise after a storm, serene and composed.

This will be an evening where baroque shadows meet the light of the present, and each soloist — a traveler carrying their story into a shared symphony. And each of those stories — is worthy of the silence after the applause.