Put art song in your heart…
enjoy this gift of love ❤︎
Ukrainian Art Song Project invites you to listen to a beautiful interpretation of
Love ~ Любов
Composer: Mykola Lysenko
Poet: Oleksander Oles
Performers:
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Albert Krywolt, piano
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Любов
Олександер Олесь
О, не дивуйсь, що ніч така блакитна…Що вийдеш ти, то знала ніч оця,
І через те вона така привітна,
Така ясна, і ніжна без кінця.
О, не дивуйсь, що пахощі навколо,
Що, мов зомлілі, дивляться квітки,
Ця ніч твоє квітчає ними чоло
І з них тобі одній плете вінки.|
О, не дивуйсь, що безліч зір на небі,
Що так прозора срібна мла,
Ця ясна ніч вбиралася для тебе
І срібло це для тебе розлила.
Солоспів написаний в жанрі серенади, у котрому фортепіяновий супровід імітує гітару. Цей вірш – один з найпопулярніших Олесевих творів – викликав зацікавлення багатьох українських композиторів.
Love
Oleksander Oles
Translation: Maxim Tarnawsky and Uliana Pasicznyk
Be not surprised that the night is azure bright.
This night, it knew you would appear,
And that is why it is so welcoming,
So bright and tender to the very end.
Be not surprised by fragrances around us,
Nor by the gaze of flowers in a swoon.
For you alone this night a wreath is weaving
With which your forehead it will ring with blooms.
Be not surprised by endless stars above,
By the transparency of the silvery veil,
For you this night has dressed itself
And for you it pours forth this silver
This song is composed in the genre of a serenade. The piano accompaniment imitates a guitar. The poem is a particular favourite of many Ukrainian art song, composers.
Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) is the father of modern Ukrainian classical music. His prolific life’s work laid the foundation for the further development and expansion of Ukrainian musical culture. He influenced a large group of Ukrainian composers, including Stetsenko, Stepovyi, Leontovych, Koshyts, and Liudkevych. A compilation of Lysenko’s works in 22 volumes was published in Kyiv in 1950–59.
Lysenko was a composer, ethnomusicologist, pianist, and conductor. He studied at the Kharkiv and Kyiv universities and, later, at the Leipzig Conservatory under Reinicke and Richter (1867–69). From 1874 to 1876 he studied orchestration under Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg. In 1904, he founded his own School of Music and Drama in Kyiv.
The list of Lysenko’s operatic compositions include Black Sea Cossacks (1872); three operas based on the works of the Ukrainian writer Mykola Hohol – Christmas Night (1873–82), The Drowned Maiden (1883) and Taras Bulba (1890); and the operettas Natalka from Poltava (1889) and Aeneas (1911). Himself a well-known pianist, Lysenko composed a piano sonata, two rhapsodies, a suite, a scherzo and a rondo, as well as an abundance of smaller pieces, including songs without words, nocturnes, waltzes and polonaises. He also wrote a number of works for strings. Of the Ukrainian composers, Lysenko was the most committed to the art song genre. Lysenko’s 133 art songs (lirychni pisni in Ukrainian) relate a wonderfully descriptive and passionate story of 19th- and early 20th-century European life.
The Ukrainian Art Song Project has been bringing Ukraine's musical treasures to light since 2004. With your support, we will continue to bring Ukraine's finest composers and their masterpieces to the world stage, where they belong.
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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