Lysenko: Complete Music for Violin and Piano / Soroka, Greene

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
March 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LYSENKO, MYKOLA
    • PERFORMER
      Soroka, Greene
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      5060113441775
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0177
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. 2nd Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, Op. 18 "Dumka-Shumka"

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    2. Elegiac Capriccio, Op. 32

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    3. Fantasy on 2 Ukrainian Themes, Op. 21

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    4. Romance, Op. 27

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    5. No. 1, A Moment of Despair

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    6. Elegy in Memory of Shevchenko

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    7. The Sun Is Setting

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    8. I. She who was Born from the Waves

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    9. II. I Rose at Dawn

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    10. III. I Believe in Beauty

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    11. IV. Should Only Roses Bloom

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    12. V. One Sad Spring

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    13. VI. My Beloved

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    14. VII. On a Clear Night

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    15. VIII. Do not Look at the Moon in Spring

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    16. IX. A Mist across the Valley

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    17. X. Spring Awoke my Heart

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene

    18. Valse brillante (arr. for violin and piano)

      Composer: Mykola Vytaliyovych Lysenko

      Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene


Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) is regarded as ‘the father of Ukrainian classical music’ but his music is virtually unknown outside his home country.

As did Bartók later in Hungary, Lysenko went out into the field, listened to what the people were singing and fashioned an individual musical language that brought together the styles of Chopin and Liszt and the essence of Ukrainian folksong.

This CD presents his complete output of music for violin and piano, the main piece being the popular Second Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes also known as ‘Dumka-Shumka’.

It is complemented by Spring Kaleidoscope, a new work for violin and piano commissioned by the performers on this CD to display the lyrical riches of Lysenko’s vocal writing: it is a transcription for violin and piano by the Ukrainian composer Viktor Kaminsky of ten Lysenko songs.

This CD is launched together with another Toccata Classics CD, Mykola Lysenko – Piano Music: Volume One, also played .by Arthur Greene.

The booklet contains commentary in both English and Ukrainian.

Solomia Soroka, violin, studied in her native Ukraine and resides in the USA. She has recorded CDs of Leone Sinigaglia, Arthur Hartmann and Myroslav Skoryk for Toccata Classics, where one critic praised the ‘elegance and refinement’ of her playing, continuing that ‘the ensemble between her and Arthur Greene, a husband and wife team, is splendid’. Arthur Greene was born in New York and grew up in Sheffield, Mass.; he studied at Yale and Juilliard where he studied with Martin Canin. He now teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.