Choral works of Ukrainian composers from the Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism eras, and contemporary composers will be performed at the concert.
The programme will be opened with the spiritual concert No. 33 "O My Soul, Why Are You Sad?" (Ps. 41) by Dmytro Bortniansky (1751 - 1825)The original author's version of the concert "O My Soul, Why Are You Sad?" will be performed by the chamber choir "Kyiv". The musical text is taken from the 1834 edition of the Court Singing Chapel, which collection is held in the archives of the British Museum.
The Resurrection Canon by Mykola Dyletsky (circa 1650 - after 1723) is a large multypart work, a masterpiece of Ukrainian Baroque.This time the original author's version of the Resurrection Canon will be performed at the concert.
Two prayers by Mykola Lysenko (1842 - 1912)These pieces effectively support the idea of creating nationally colored, characteristic Ukrainian music, aiming for aesthetically generalized reproduction of Christian ideas and images.
Psalm 83 "How Lovely are Your Dwellings, Lord Almighty" by Yevhen Stankovych (born 1942)The chamber choir "Kyiv" has presented this piece to the capital's audience several times. A renewed version of the dramatic interpretation of the composition will be performed at the concert.
Triptych on Taras Shevchenko's poems by Valentyn Silvestrov (born 1937)In 2022, the composer wrote the final piece of the cycle "In the Renewed Land" in Berlin, where "there will be no enemy, but there will be a son and there will be a mother, and there will be people on the earth."( T. Shevchenko) This is the anthem of a renewed Ukraine, free, peaceful, flourishing, happy...
"Deserving is" by Viktoriya PolevaThe chant "Deserving is" is part of the cycle "Bright Song-Chants." The image of the Virgin Mary is portrayed as a magnificent fresco - The Oranta. "This feeling of a gigantic mass rising up is striking and stirring like nothing else..." (V. Poleva)
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Ticket price - 500 UAH.