Oleksandr Oles
Translation: Uliana Pasicznyk and
Maxim Tarnawsky

Come to me, do come!
I long for you unremittingly,
My longing knows no limits.
My torment is inconsolable,
Yet the night is so bright and tender, like you!
Like you? Like you? Oh, not at all!
You are more tender by far
Than this entire gentle night.
The bright night will not console me
Because you are so much more tender,
Because it’s you!

Whether it is just a single tremulous note played pianissimo or a whole arpeggiated crescendo passage, the beloved is more gentle, more dear than the whole song put together. Love cannot be circumscribed by quatrain or quaver.

лександр Олесь

Прийди, прийди, нудьгую по тобі,
Нема кінця моїй журбі.
І так журба моя невтішна,
І ніч така ясна і ніжна, як ти!
Як ти?
О ні, бо ти ніжніша без кінця,
Ніж вся ласкава ніч оця.
І ніч ясна мене не втішить,
Бо ти її стократ миліше,
То ж ти!

Незалежно від того, чи це просто одна тремольна нотка заграна піяніссімо чи цілий наростаючий пасаж арпеджіо, кохана більш ніжна, дорожча, ніж вся пісня разом. Любов не може бути обмежена строфою чи нотою.

MYROSLAV VOLYNSKY (1955 -)

A student of composition at Lviv Conservatoire under Anatol’ Kos-Anatol’sky, (a composer of note whose art songs are to be recorded by the Ukrainian Art Song Project), Myroslav has to date composed for all musical genres – operatic, symphonic, oratorio and chamber music.  His art songs range from intimate miniatures to grandiose expressions of epic dimensions - a true challenge for piano and voice. Myroslav’s immediate influences range from Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler to Borys Lyatoshynsky, Richard Strauss and Dmitri Shostakovich.  A delight for the performer to perform; a delight for the listener to witness such sophisticated and groundbreaking music...listen out for the lapses into ‘Tango’!!!

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