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Ukrainian Piano Concerts - Works by Vasyl Barvinsky & Viktor Kosenko

2/21/2025, 4 Tracks, 1:09:31

Featuring

  • Violina Petrychenko
  • Volodymyr Syvokhip
  • Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine
  • Vasyl Barvinsky
  • Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

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Recording & Production

These two grand concertos by Barvinsky and Kosenko are presented here in their first complete recordings.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Viktor Kosenko's Piano Concerto was incomplete at his death, with only the first movement previously heard; conductor Serhij Chorovets completed a comprehensive reconstruction of the remaining two movements in 2024.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Vasyl Barvinsky and Viktor Kosenko, the composers on this album, both received extensive European musical training and consciously chose to return to Ukraine to contribute to its cultural development.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Barvinsky's Piano Concerto was reconstructed from a piano reduction discovered in Argentina in 1993 and later revised by composer Bohdana Frolyak in 2019.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

The performance and rediscovery of monumental works by Ukrainian composers, such as those on this album, has become a cultural manifesto amidst the brutal war against Ukraine.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Violina Petrychenko, the pianist on this album, is an untiring ambassador for Ukrainian music, having initiated the global recognition of works by Mykola Lysenko, Viktor Kosenko, and Vasyl Barvinsky.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Vasyl Barvinsky's Piano Concerto was publicly burned along with his other handwritten compositions after he was unjustly sentenced to 10 years in Mordovian gulags in 1948.

Source: Booklet

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