Yevhen Stankovych: Complete Chamber Symphonies, Volume One
Between 1972 and 2018 the Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych – born in 1942 and now the senior figure in Ukrainian music – produced a series of seventeen Chamber Symphonies, many of them doubling as concertos. This substantial body of music has remained largely unheard until now, even inside Ukraine, and should prove a major discovery for audiences everywhere. These works cover a kaleidoscopic range of moods – lyrical, rhythmically propulsive, bashfully hesitant, buoyantly assertive, elegiac, optimistic – expressed in a direct language with its distant roots in the mild modernism of Berg, Britten, Janáček, Shostakovich and like composers. Stankovych’s achievement is unparalleled in the history of music not simply because of the sheer number of his Chamber Symphonies – they also contain some of the finest music of the past half-century.
Natalia Kozhushko-Maksymiv, flute
Eva Rabchevska, violin
Luba Tunnicliffe, viola
Dmytro Tavanets, keyboards
Kyiv Chamber Orchestra
Natalia Ponomarchuk, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
Chamber Symphony No. 7, Path and Steps, for violin and chamber orchestra (1996)* (24:55)
- I. Path and Steps (14:30)
- II. Several Remarks (4:25)
- III. Once upon a time Visiting Great Vivaldi (6:00)
- Chamber Symphony No. 3 for flute and twelve stringed instruments (1982) (17:42)
Chamber Symphony No. 15 for viola and chamber orchestra (2018)* (16:08)
- I. Lento ad lib. – Andante – (8:36)
- II. Allegro (7:32)
*First Recordings
First Complete Recording Made in the Presence of the Composer
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