Consolation: Forgotten Treasures Of The Ukranian Soul

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BIS
Release Date
January 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARVINSKY FILIPPENKO KOLESSA
    • PERFORMER
      Pasichnyk, Koranyi, Qave, Jonason, Svarfvar, Pasichnyk
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2017
    • UPC
      7318599922225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2222
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Dumka-Shumka, Op. 18

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    2. No. 8, Consolation

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    3. No. 1, Trost

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    4. No. 3, Élégie. La tristesse

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Jakob Koranyi, Natalya Pasichnyk

    5. It Makes No Difference to Me

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Luthando Qave, Natalya Pasichnyk

    6. Carpathian Rhapsody

      Composer: Myroslav Skoryk

      Performer: Emil Jonason, Natalya Pasichnyk

    7. Allegro

      Composer: Yuly Sergueievitch Meytus

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk, Christian Svarfvar

    8. No. 1 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Levko Mykolayovych Revutsky

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    9. No. 2 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: Levko Mykolayovych Revutsky

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    10. I. Andante sostenuto - Poco più mosso ed agitato

      Composer: Boris Mikolayovich Lyatoshinsky

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    11. Melody

      Composer: Boris Mikolayovich Lyatoshinsky

      Performer: Christian Svarfvar, Natalya Pasichnyk

    12. No. 2, They Stood in Silence

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Olga Pasichnyk, Natalya Pasichnyk

    13. I Stood and Listened to Spring

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Olga Pasichnyk, Natalya Pasichnyk

    14. No. 10, I Am Sad

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Olga Pasichnyk, Natalya Pasichnyk

    15. Melody

      Composer: Myroslav Skoryk

      Performer: Olga Pasichnyk, Christian Svarfvar, Natalya Pasichnyk

    16. I. Allegro commodo

      Composer: Mykola Kolessa

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    17. II. Andante cantabile

      Composer: Mykola Kolessa

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    18. III. Allegro grazioso, poco rubato

      Composer: Mykola Kolessa

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    19. No. 2, Allegretto pastorale

      Composer: Vasyl Barvinsky

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    20. No. 1, Allegretto

      Composer: Valentin Silvestrov

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk

    21. Toccata

      Composer: Arkady Filippenko

      Performer: Natalya Pasichnyk


In Ukraine, as in many other parts of Europe, the late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a national spirit which resulted in a movement to ex¬plore and cultivate popular culture. But the country would have to wait until 1991 for independence, and in the meantime this national spirit could only find musical expression in the more intimate forms. Some of the most authentic examples of Ukrainian art music can therefore be found in chamber music and in song. With this release, the Swedish-Ukrainian pianist Natalya Pasichnyk, her sister Olga and their Swedish colleagues offer the listener a way into this shadowy world – the beautiful, melancholy and emotive world of Ukrainian chamber music. Except for Valentyn Sylvestrov, the composers featured will be mostly unknown to an international audience, yet they invite the listener to share a journey into a soundscape that is both exotic and strangely familiar. The title of the disc, Consolation, is derived from a rhapsodic piano piece by Viktor Kosenko which perfectly captures the inward-looking mood of much of Ukrainian music, but the first sound which meets the ear of the listener is a loosely strummed chord, like the sound of a lute: in his Dumka-shumka from 1877, Mykola Lysenko imitated the sound of the Ukrainian lute, the kobza. Lysenko is a central figure in Ukrainian art music, and is also represented here with the song Meni odnakovo, a setting of a poem by Taras Shevchenko, the poet who for many embodies the spirit of Ukrainian independence.