Trenet fought for the joy of life. He used his strength to serve poetry, and the joie de vivre of us all. At a time when we were surrounded by people who used their strength to serve villainy, Trenet gave us something that was magical. 3448960209328 FRMH93C.2 43889600 .00 32.99 .40 FREMEAUX HERITAGE COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 11/17/2023 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/46/4257646-3140517.jpg 11 CHISHKO / DANKEVYCH / LUHANSK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UKRAINIAN INTERMEZZO Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Zoryana Kushpler was an ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera from 2007 to 2020 and performs regularly on the major international stages and festivals as both an opera and Lied singer. Kushpler pays special attention to music from and around her home country. Less than six months after the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in violation of international law, she gathered the Luhansk Symphony Orchestra, which had fled it's home town in it's entirety, in Lviv to record opera arias by Ukrainian composers and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for this CD production in collaboration with conductor Ivan Ostapovych. The resulting album Ukrainian InterMezzo" offers an insight into the work of the most important Ukrainian composers such as Mykola Lysenko, Julij Mejtus, Borys Lyatoshynsky, Oles Chyshko, Viktor Matyuk, Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky or Oleh Kiva, which is characterized by the special local color and themes such as love, longing and homeland.