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Ukrainian Christmas Arranged by Bohdan Kryvopust Solomiya Ivakhiv, Violin Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Serhii Khorovets
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Ukraine has a long and vibrant tradition of Christmas carols, whose melodies and meaning – now, more than ever – hold an important place in the hearts of the country’s people. Some carols date back centuries and cover a wide variety of themes, but they are united by a common thread – an appreciation of the beauties of heaven and earth, and the coming of the Saviour. The Ukrainian violin virtuoso Solomiya Ivakhiv is the soloist in Bohdan Kryvopust’s imaginative arrangements, which bring out the variety and beauty of the carols. Kryvopust’s own Fantasia is a delightful festive montage. Key features: • Composer and arranger Bohdan Kryvopust has had compositions performed by Ukrainian and international ensembles. In 2021 he won First Prize in the Ukrainian Concert Overture competition in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s renewed independence. • Violin soloist Solomiya Ivakhiv was named Honoured (Merited) Artist of Ukraine, the country’s highest cultural honour, in 2021. •
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Conductor Serhii Khorovets has served as the conductor of the Lviv National Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra since 2019.
Solomiya Ivakhiv
Serhii Khorovets
Click to listen to All around the world, good tidings
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Jules Émile Frédéric MASSENET (1842–1912) Hérodiade Opera in four acts (1878–79, rev. 1884) Libretto by Paul Miliet (1848–1924) and Georges Hartmann (Henri Grémont) (1843–1900), based on a draft scenario by Angelo Zanardini (1820–1893) Nicole Car, Soprano • Clémentine Margaine, Mezzo-soprano Matthew Polenzani, Tenor • Etienne Dupuis, Baritone Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Enrique Mazzola
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Many years before Richard Strauss composed his opera on the subject of Salome and John the Baptist, Jules Massenet had explored the same relationship in Hérodiade . However, in Massenet’s opera it is the vengeful Hérodiade, Salomé’s mother, who demands John the Baptist’s head, not her naïve innocent daughter. The opera’s lyrical inwardness focuses on the characters’ most intimate feelings in a way that had not been heard before and was considered radical at the time. Key features: • ‘It’s not often in Verdi that the conductor deserves pride of place. Enrique Mazzola goes beyond the usual niceties of Italianate style and focuses on the tautness of the drama to an exceptional degree, breathtakingly intense in some of the quietest passages’ wrote The Financial Times . • Gramophone wrote of soprano Nicole Car that ‘She possesses a lovely lyric soprano… full of dewy freshness, nowhere more so than in Mimì’s aria, where the voice has a rosy bloom’. • ‘Few singers today command the sheer beauty of timbre and dynamic control of Matthew Polenzani … almost impossibly beautiful pianissimo’ ( Opera News ). •
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Of Massenet’s Werther at the Vienna State Opera, Online Merker , the international cultural platform wrote that ‘ Clémentine Margaine thus becomes the vocal centre of the opera evening and, thanks to her impressive presence, clearly has the upper hand. Her emotionally performed tearful aria “Air de larmes” a melancholic slow waltz, does not fail to have its effect’.
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Click to listen to Celui dont la parole efface toutes peines – Il est doux, Il est bon
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