Virtuosos 44. RESONANCES OF TIME

Artists:

• Violina Petrychenko, piano
• The Phoenix String Quartet:
  • Mykola Haviuk, violin
  • Petro Titiaiev, violin
  • Anna Bura, viola
  • Denys Lytvynenko, cello

Program:

• Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Adagio in F major, D 487
• Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Piano Quintet in E flat major, op. 4
  • Allegro brillante
  • In modo d’una Marcia. Un poco largamente
  • Scherzo. Molto vivace
  • Allegro ma non troppo
• Borys Liatoshynskyi (1895-1968). “Ukrainian Quintet in G minor, Op. 42
  • Allegro e poco agitato
  • Lento e tranquillo
  • Allegro
  • Allegro risoluto

Technological advances leave no doubt that while an interested reader is reading this text, an artificial intelligence system will be generating a new piece somewhere else. However, there is also no doubt that tens of thousands of musicians will simultaneously study scores written in the past, turning to them in search of that mysterious grail that will attract generations to come. After all, music, although it does not give answers, gives experience. The unique musical experience for the audience this evening will be Franz Schubert’s Adagio in F major, which is a valuable and rare experience to hear in Lviv.

The luminaries of European Romanticism built their own musical worlds around genuine human emotions: Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. In the program by pianist Violina Petrychenko and the Phoenix String Quartet, the musicians will respond to them with Borys Liatoshynskyi’s Ukrainian Quintet, recently recorded for the international label, which crystallizes not only the human voice but also the human will.

“Schumann and Lyatoshynsky. One is an echo of an age where dreams are still possible. The other is the voice of someone who lost his dream, but never gave up hope.” And this dialog is not just about music. It contains our silence, our faith, and our pain, from which new strength sprouts.” – Violina Petrychenko.