Composer: Yevhen Stankovych
Performer: Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0402
Release: 2017
Size: 582 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
On the Verkhovyna Plateau, Triptych
01. I. Lullaby
02. II. Wedding
03. III. Improvisation
04. Sonata piccola
05. Ukrainian Poem
06. The Angel’s Touch
07. Poem (A Dedication)
Morning Music
08. I. Morning Dew
09. II. Light Wind
10. III. Sun Rise
11. IV. Beginning of the Day
12. Romance (Transcr. A. Vynokurov)
13. Maydan Fresco
Yevhen Stankovych (born in 1942) is one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary composers. His music for violin and piano is recorded here, almost all of it for the first time.
The works on this album cover a wide range of emotions, from wild highland dances that distantly recall Szymanowski to the plangent, lyrical lament of Maydan Fresco, protesting the deaths of demonstrators in Maydan Square in 2013.
The musicians here – wife-and-husband team Ukrainian Solomia Soroka and American Arthur Greene – have consulted the composer on the preparation of this programme, giving their interpretations a rare authenticity.