DMITRI KLEBANOV
We invite you to listen to a beautiful interpretation of:
As autumn winds blow and bright leaves swirl, the Ukrainian Art Song Project sends you this gift of love…♪
Над Дніпровою Сагою ~ By Dnipro's Bank Along the Sands
Poet: Taras ShevchenkoУ Світі Злому і Холодному ~ In a Wicked and Cold World
Poet: Lina KostenkoЗацвіла в Долині ~ There Blossomed in a Valley Long Ago
Poet: Taras ShevchenkoНеначе Степом Чумаки ~ As the Salt Merchants on the Boundless Steppe
Poet: Taras Shevchenko
Composer: Dmitri Klebanov
Performers:
Olenka Slywynska, mezzo-soprano
Kevin Ahfat, piano
Dmitri Klebanov (1907-1987)
About the Composer
The Jewish-Ukrainian composer Dmitri Klebanov (1907-1986) remains largely unknown in the West due to Soviet-era repression and anti-Semitism. A conductor, pianist, violinist and educator as well as a composer, Klebanov displayed his musical gifts at an early age. At 16, he was the youngest student in his class at Ukraine’s Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama and by his graduation in 1926, he had composed numerous instrumental works and songs. After a year spent as a violinist with the Leningrad Opera Orchestra, he returned to Kharkiv and conducted the Kharkiv Radio Orchestra, lectured and premiered his first Violin Concerto in 1940. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 halted his career. Klebanov was exiled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan along with 150,000 Jewish refugees
Upon his return to Kharkiv, Klebanov wrote his First Symphony, dedicated to the martyrs of Babi Yar. Denounced as unpatriotic by the Soviets, he was stripped of his posts until the thaw of the Khrushchev era when he was offered the directorship of the Ukraine Composers’ Union. This he refused because it required membership of the Communist Party. Klebanov continued to compose into the mid-1980s and left a legacy of nine symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, film scores and approximately a hundred songs, including art songs. He remains largely unknown in the West as prior to ARC’s recording, only two compositions were commercially released in the West.
Music in Exile ~ Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov
$20.00
Performed by the ARC Ensemble of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto this premiere recording of Music In Exile features chamber music by Ukrainian Composer Dmitri Klebanov (1907-1987). ARC Ensemble artists include: Erika Raum, violin, Marie Bérard, violin, Steven Dann, viola, Thomas Wiebe, cello and Kevin Ahfat, piano.
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Проєкт "Українськa Мистецькa Пісня" поширює найкращі зразки української музики з 2004 року. З Вашою підтримкою ми продовжимо презентувати найкращих українських композиторів та їх шедеври, які належать до світової музичної спадщини.
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