Taras Kompanichenko. Kobza- and Lyre-Playing Tradition. Project "My Ukraine. Bervy".

"As of today Taras Kompanichenko is the only folk bandura-player in Ukraine (and maybe in the world as well), who is a proficient performer of traditional kobza repertoire in its entirety 9 dumas, a considerable quantity of canticles, psalms, historical ballads and calendar songs.
The repertoire presented in this compact-disc is mostly scientific and performing reconstructions of undoubtedly authentic works of the living kobza- and lyre-playing tradition and folklorised baroque tradition in a chronological section from the XVII-XIX centuries, restored after recordings by M. Speransky, A. Rubets, M. Lysenko. P. Demutsky, F. Kolesa and taken over orally from G. Tkachenko, his "canonical" examples that are characterised probably by the highest degree of feeling and authenticity of performance amidst the whole movement of kobza-playing reconstruction..."

The information is from the booklet to a compact disc