Exploration of the
Ukrainian Music
Making World
Part I: Traditional, Classical
and Sacred Music
The purpose of this section of the website is to highlight what to my mind are the most extraordinary music making instances of the most extraordinary Ukrainian musical artists, representing thereby the absolute pinnacle: The best of the best.
What I aim to provide here, then, are two pages on which anyone visiting this website—especially for the first time—will be able to experience in succinct form, what I feel are the most characteristic of the wide-ranging excellencies that make up the Ukrainian music making world.
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Drevo (Kryachkivka)/Maisternia Pisni
Drevo (Kryachkivka)/Maisternia Pisni: “Oy Tam Za Moryamy”
Drevo (Kryachkivka)/Maisternia Pisni: “Korabel”
Essay | Drevo and Maisternia Pisni:
The Reconstitution of the Precious Tradition
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Drevo (Kryachkivka)
Drevo (Kryachkivka): “Oy Tam Na Hori”
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Drevo (Kyiv)
Drevo (Kyiv): “Dyvnaya Hodyna Po Vsim Svitu Stala”
Drevo (Kyiv): “Oy, U Poli Drevo”
Drevo (Kyiv): “Volodar-Volodarchyku”
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Hurtopravtsi
Hurtopravtsi: “Mnohaya Lita”
Hurtopravtsi: [“Kupala Ritual”]
Hurtopravtsi: “Halyna and Vasyl” [or “Adam and Eva”]”
Hurtopravtsi: “Oy, Davno-Davno”
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Bozhychi
Bozhychi:
“Oy, Na Dubovi Ta Hilky Hnutsya”
Bozhychi:
“Sho V Pana Khazyayina Da Na Yoho Dvori”
(Shchedrivka “Berezoyu”)
Bozhychi:
“Stradalnaya Mati”/Performance at Maidan
Bozhychi:
“Pomyshlyayte, Chelovetsy, Vsyakyi Chas O Smerti”
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Kralytsya
Kralytsya:
[“Wedding Songs of Luhansk Region, Part I”]
Kralytsya:
[“Wedding Songs of Luhansk Region, Part II”]
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HulayHorod
HulayHorod:
“Chornomorets”
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[Spontaneous Vernacular music-making @ Maidan]
[Spontaneous Vernacular music-making @ Maidan]:
“Parova Mashina”
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Khoreya Kozatska
Khoreya Kozatska:
“Piyte, Brattya, Popyite”
Khoreya Kozatska:
“Yikhav Kozak Za Dunay”
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Volodymyr Kushpet
Volodymyr Kushpet:
[Solo Performance on Kobza and Lira]
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Eduard Drach
Eduard Drach:
[Solo Performance on Kobza]
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Pavlo Morhuniuk
Pavlo Morhuniuk:
“Oy Pidu Ya Luhom”
Pavlo Morhuniuk:
“Plach Zemli” (“Weeping Earth”)
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Yuriy Molfar [Yurko Yahusevych]
Yuriy Molfar [Yurko Yahusevych]:
“[Composition for Solo] Torban”
Yuriy Molfar [Yurko Yahusevych]:
“Torban Improvisation”
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Julian Kytasty
Julian Kytasty:
“Black Sea Winds”
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Julian Kytasty & Michael Alpert
Old World traditions from neighboring villages in Ukraine meet up again on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, so to speak. Julian Kytasty, distinguished North American heir of the Ukrainian Bandura/Kobza Tradition, joins musical forces with Michael Alpert, “a leading Yiddishist and pioneer of the klezmer revival” (to quote from the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter website). Not everything on this recording works as well as this particular selection, but this particular selection does definitely work very well.
Julian Kytasty & Michael Alpert:
“S'iz Gekimen/U Susida”
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Lyudy Dobre
Lyudy Dobre:
[Improvisation based on the “Arkan”, Hutsul Circle Dance]
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Maqam (Crimean Tatar Traditional Music)
Maqam, filmed by Vincent Moon
in Bakhchysaray, Crimea/Part I
Maqam, filmed by Vincent Moon
in Bakhchysaray, Crimea/Part II
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Mashala Doza
Mashala Doza:
“Sharena Gayda”
Mashala Doza:
“Elena Kerko”
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Pikkardijska Tercija
Pikkardijska Tercija: “Kacha”
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Choir in Vinnytsi
Choir in Vinnytsi: “Shchedryk” (Carol of the Bells)
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Veryovka Choir
Veryovka Choir: “Rozpryahayte Khloptsi Koni”
Veryovka Choir: “Oy, Syvaya Zozulenka”
Veryovka Choir: “Tsvite Teren”
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Nina Matviyenko
Nina Matviyenko: “Holub i Holubka”
Nina Matviyenko: “Letila Zozulya”
Nina Matviyenko: “Holodomor 1932-1933”
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Susanna Karpenko
Susanna Karpenko:
“Yavrumla Salgirnin Boyu”
Susanna Karpenko:
“Sidit Zayets Na Verbi”
Essay | Susanna Karpenko:
Broadening the Boundary Lines
of the Tradition (The Patterned
Songs Project)
Susanna Karpenko:
“Viryazhala Mati Sina”
Essay | Susanna Karpenko “Viryazhala Mati Sina”:
The Most Extraordinary Four Minutes in Ukrainian Music
Susanna Karpenko:
[Full concert of “Patterned Songs” at
Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv, 2013]
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Burdon
Burdon:
“Pod Biloyu Berоzoyu”
(“Under the Birch Tree”)
Burdon:
“Vesnyanka”
Burdon:
“Zozulechka”
Burdon:
“Mlynok” (“The Windmill”)
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Revutsky Academic Male Capella
Revutsky Academic Male Capella:
Setting of Taras Shevchenko Poem “My Thoughts,
My Thoughts”/Yevhen Kozak (Composer)
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Iryna Danyleiko
Iryna Danyleiko/Valentyn Sylvestrov (Composer):
“Proshchay, Svite”
Iryna Danyleiko/Mykola Lysenko (Composer):
“Oy Odna Ya, Odna”
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Danylo Pertsov
Danylo Pertsov (Composer): “Bitter Star”
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Mariya Oliynyk and Ulyana Horbachevska
Mariya Oliynyk (Composer), Ulyana Horbachevska
(Soloist): “Dedication To Vasyl Slipak”
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Victoria Poleva
Victoria Poleva (Composer):
“No Man is an Island”
Victoria Poleva (Composer):
“White Internment”
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Natalia Polovynka
Natalia Polovynka:
Slava Rozhdennomu (Bohdana Frolyak, comp.)
Natalia Polovynka:
[“Concert at All Saints Parish, Part I”]
Natalia Polovynka:
[“Concert at All Saints Parish, Part II”]
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