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Chorus of the Ukraine Millennium Foundation
Wolodymyr Kolesnyk - Director
Sung in Old Church Slavic (Ukrainian pronunciation).
Booklet with texts (Psalms) OCS with English translation.
English notes.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping and handling.
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This 4 CD recording of the 35 Sacred Choral Concertos of Dmytro Bortniansky (1751 - 1825) is directed by Maestro Wolodymyr Kolesnyk. It features the 55-voice Chorus of the Ukraine Millennium Foundation. Originally recorded to commemorate the Millennium of Ukraine's Christianity, it has been digitally remastered and reissued on compact discs.

"[Bortniansky's] works show a rare expertise in the grouping of vocal masses, wonderful understanding of nuances, fullness and sonority of harmony. But the most astonishing of all is the incredible freedom in the placement of choral parts and the disregard of the rules, which had been observed by his predecessors and contemporaries, especially the Italians-even though he himself was regarded as their disciple." -Hector Berlioz

"Dmytro Bortniansky created an entire epoch in Ukrainian choral music. His mastery of Italian and European compositional techniques was irreproachable, but he did not merely imitate Western European examples. Instead, Bortniansky created original compositions constructed on a foundation of national Ukrainian melodic principles." -Maestro Wolodymyr Kolesnyk

Taras Filenko Ph.D. and Dr. Tamara Bulat -- authors.

Price U.S $55.00 + shipping and handling.         (approx. CND$75.00)
US $8 s/h in Continental US
CND $10 s/h in Canada
Elsewhere, s/h varies.

Availability -- Shipments scheduled every Friday.
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4-day Expedited Mail for Canada.

Language -- English.
Dimensions -- 11.5" x 8.5" x 1"
   29.5cm x 22cm x 2.5cm
Hardcover
434 pages
500 (approx.) b/w photographs and illustrations; 50 color.
Publisher -- Ukraine Millennium Foundation (Canada).
Printed in Kyiv

ISBN 966-530-045-8

The World of Mykola Lysenko follows the development of Ukrainian musical culture in the second part of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Questions of ethnic identity, music, and politics are discussed in the context of the Ukrainian cultural milieu. The authors profile the founder of the Ukrainian national school of music, Mykola Lysenko, composer, music folklorist, pianist, pedagogue and prominent public figure. A recognized leader among Eastern European ethnomusicologists and composers, Lysenko derived his creative inspiration from songs of his native land and was an ardent promoter of Ukrainian folk music.

Unique photos of public and cultural figures, composers, writers, artists, historians, and ethnographers are featured. Extensive materials reconstruct a broad panorama of the civic and cultural life of Ukraine at the turn of the 20th century. Much of the material presented is published for the very first time.

The book is intended for the general public, as well as for scholars and students interested in Eastern European, Ukrainian, and Russian studies.

Winner of the Publishers' Prize of Ukraine for 2001.