Oxford Lieder - Song at Wolfson: A Celebration of Ukrainian Song with Rozanna Madylus at Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Oxford on Thursday 9th June 2022

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Oxford Lieder - Song at Wolfson: A Celebration of Ukrainian Song with Rozanna Madylus

Add to my Calendar 09-06-2022 18:00 09-06-2022 20:00 36 Oxford Lieder - Song at Wolfson: A Celebration of Ukrainian Song with Rozanna Madylus This concert is presented in support of the DEC Ukraine appeal. Thanks to generous support from Breckon & Breckon, all costs of the concert are covered and 100% of ticket sales will go directly to the DEC. Although seating is unreserved as usual, tickets are priced at £15, £20 and £25 to help raise as much as possible. If you would like to donate further, please click here to give directly to DEC. British-Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Rozanna Madylus is a former Oxford Lieder Young Artist and Oxford Lieder are delighted to welcome her for this special programme of Ukrainian song. The programme will be introduced by Philip Bullock, setting the rich history of Ukrainian music in a wider cultural context. Rozanna includes songs by Mykola Lysenko, the foremost 19th-century Ukrainian composer, as well as Yakiv Stepovyi and Kyrylo Stetsenko. She and pianist Sholto Kynoch also perform songs by Stefania Turkewich, increasingly recognised as one of the most important Ukrainian composers of the 20th century: she studied in Vienna and Berlin with Joseph Marx and Arnold Schoenberg, before fleeing the Soviets in 1946 and moving to England, where she died in Cambridge in 1977. Some of her songs were only discovered in 2010.With selected folk songs also included, this promises to be a very special occasion, celebrating Ukrainian culture, music and poetry, and supporting the immense humanitarian efforts required by the Ukrainian people at this terrible time. Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Wolfson College
Linton Road
Oxford
OX2 6UD
England

Thursday 9th June 2022
6:00 PM

Programme

Mykola Lysenko – Reve ta stohne Dnipr shirokyj (Roars and growns the wide Dnipro river)
Mykola Lysenko – A Poet's Love
Stefania Turkewich – Hutsulka (A mountain lass)
Stefania Turkewich – Pavuk (The Spider)
Stefania Turkewich – Hutsulka (A mountain lass)
Stefania Turkewich – Sukhi moji ochi (I cannot weep)
Yakiv Stepovyi – Utoptala stezchechku (A narrow pathway)
Yakiv Stepovyi – Ni, ne spivaj pisen' veselych (No, do not sing happy songs)
Kyrylo Stetsenko – Davol'na! (Enough!)
Kyrylo Stetsenko – Vjet'sja Stezhka (A winding path)
Kyrylo Stetsenko – Nebo z morem obnjalosja (The skies embraced the seas)

Performers

Rozanna Madylus – Voice
Sholto Kynoch – piano

Programme Note

This concert is presented in support of the DEC Ukraine appeal. Thanks to generous support from Breckon & Breckon, all costs of the concert are covered and 100% of ticket sales will go directly to the DEC. Although seating is unreserved as usual, tickets are priced at £15, £20 and £25 to help raise as much as possible. If you would like to donate further, please click here to give directly to DEC.

British-Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Rozanna Madylus is a former Oxford Lieder Young Artist and Oxford Lieder are delighted to welcome her for this special programme of Ukrainian song. The programme will be introduced by Philip Bullock, setting the rich history of Ukrainian music in a wider cultural context.

Rozanna includes songs by Mykola Lysenko, the foremost 19th-century Ukrainian composer, as well as Yakiv Stepovyi and Kyrylo Stetsenko. She and pianist Sholto Kynoch also perform songs by Stefania Turkewich, increasingly recognised as one of the most important Ukrainian composers of the 20th century: she studied in Vienna and Berlin with Joseph Marx and Arnold Schoenberg, before fleeing the Soviets in 1946 and moving to England, where she died in Cambridge in 1977. Some of her songs were only discovered in 2010.

With selected folk songs also included, this promises to be a very special occasion, celebrating Ukrainian culture, music and poetry, and supporting the immense humanitarian efforts required by the Ukrainian people at this terrible time.

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