Ark Ukraine Lviv 2020 Oksana Liniv Chekun, Nikitiuk, Tatsishin Bandura Gorbachevska

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Ark Ukraine   
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Lviv, Ukraine  
• Recorded: October 2020
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: Dominika Chekun, Oksana Nikitiuk, Nazar Tatsishin, Bandura, Ulyana Gorbachevska
• Conductor: Oksana Liniv  
• Orchestra: Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Band of ancient Ukrainian music "Khorea Kozatska"  
• Chorus: Lviv National Academic Men's Choir "Dudarik", Chamber girls' choir KSSMSh  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Ark Ukraine: Music  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

PROGRAM:

I. THE SKY

1. Harvest folk song “Oh, what a miracle” from Polissya

2. Christmas irmos “Magi of Persia”

3. Song for Christmas “Angels, go down.” Music by an unknown author (from the Sokyryn Nativity Scene in 1774), lyrics by Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1722–1794)

4. Significant chant “Worthy to eat”

5. Dmytro Bortnyansky (1751–1825) / Concerto for harpsichord and chamber orchestra in D major, translation for bandura and orchestration by Yuri Oliynyk

6. Victoria Poleva (1962) / “Holy God” from the cycle of the choral symphony “Light Songs”

II. LAND

7. Mermaid folk song “Oh, they removed the Bush” from Polissya

8. Lesya Dychko (1939) / arrangement of the folk song “Petrivochka” from the cantata “Four Seasons”

9. Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949-1979) / excerpt from “Suite-Variations” on the theme of the folk song “Dry Willow” for chamber orchestra

10. Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) / choir of mermaids from the opera “Drowned”

11. Kupala folk song “Oh, do not stand willow over the water” from Central Ukraine

12. Zoltan Almashi (1975) / excerpt from the cantata “Formation” on the theme of Kupala songs

13. Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895–1968) / excerpt from the opera The Golden Hoop

III. WEDDING

14. Folk wedding arrangements “Oh, this is for you” from Podillya and Poltava region

15. Myroslav Skoryk (1938–2020) / “The Gate Swings” from the series “Three Ukrainian Wedding Songs” for soprano and symphony orchestra

16. “Drink, brothers, drink”, banquet edging of the late XVII-XVIII centuries.

17. Vasyl Barvinsky (1888–1963) / vocal-symphonic suite “Ukrainian Wedding” for soloists, choir and orchestra, part 2. Orchestral edition by Bohdana Frolyak

18. Alexander Kozarenko (1963) / excerpts from the chamber cantata “Five wedding arrangements from Pokuttya”

19. “Pantry” / folk words, music and arrangement by DakhaBrakh

IV. BIRTH

20. Folk lullaby “Oh, you cat, cat” from Polissya

21. Eugene Stankovich (1942) / “Lullaby”

22. Leonid Grabovsky (1937) / “Oh, sleep, child without a bandage” from the series “Four Ukrainian songs” for choir and symphony orchestra

23. Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921) – Ivan Nebesnyi “Heavenly Shchedryk”

V. FORMATION

24. Cossack song “Famous troops of Zaporozhye”

25. Cossack historical song “Oh, the owl sat” from the opera by Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky “Zaporozhets over the Danube”

26. Folk song “Floating boat” folk words, music and arrangement by DakhaBrakh, orchestration by Roman Grigoriv

27. Lemko folk song “Duck flows through the Tisza”, arranged by Ulyana Gorbachevskaya

28. “Cry” folk words, music and arrangement by DakhaBrakh, orchestration by Roman Grigoriv

29. Eugene Stankovich (1942) / excerpts and finale of the 1st act of the folk opera “Fern Flower”

30. Ivan Nebesny (1971) / “The Ark” based on the ancient edging “Flood”

EPILOGUE
“Bird” by Serhiy Zhadan, music by DakhaBrakh