Mykola Lysenko - Complete Music for Violin and Piano
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0177
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd March 2015
Contents
Works
Spring Kaleidoscope (10 songs by Mykola Lysenko, transcibed for violin and piano)Elegiac Capriccio, op.32
Elegy in memory of Shevchenko
Fantasy on two Ukrainian themes, op.21
Personal Album, op.40
Romance, op.27
The sun is setting (traditional)
Valse brillante (trans. Victor Kaminsky)
Artists
Solomia Soroka (violin)Arthur Greene (piano)
Works
Spring Kaleidoscope (10 songs by Mykola Lysenko, transcibed for violin and piano)Elegiac Capriccio, op.32
Elegy in memory of Shevchenko
Fantasy on two Ukrainian themes, op.21
Personal Album, op.40
Romance, op.27
The sun is setting (traditional)
Valse brillante (trans. Victor Kaminsky)
Artists
Solomia Soroka (violin)Arthur Greene (piano)
About
Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) is regarded as ‘the father of Ukrainian classical music’ but his music is virtually unknown outside his home country. As Bartók did 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.
Solomia Soroka 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, Massachusetts. He studied at Yale and Juilliard where he studied with Martin Canin. He now teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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