Kyiv Chamber Choir. Kyrylo Stetsenko. Vol.3. Requiem.

"Kyrylo Stetsenko – a composer of the highest order and talent, Kyrylo Stetsenko dedicated himself wholeheartedly to Ukrainian culture. In his short life he contributed impressive musical works, imbued with a personal spirituality, which live on even to this day. Stetsenko belongs to a pleiad of notable Ukrainian artists at the beginning of the XX century. Almost contemporaneous was the appearance in the musical life in Ukraine of: O. Koshyts', M. Leontovych, S. Lyudkevych and Y. Yatsynevych. This was a veritable assembly of great talents, which, having developed the creative traditions of Mykola Lysenko, raised the achievements of Ukrainian music to a high degree..." L. Parhomenko, Doctor of Arts, professor

"The creative output of that composer (Stetsenko) – I love immensely. His most important work is, in my opinion, his Requiem (Memorial Service), which I heard conducted by the author himself in Kyiv. It is full of the poetry of our memorial services for the dead, suggesting bowed wooden crosses and tender cherry trees, which surround graves, as children would the casket of a deceased sadly and quietly holding simple field flowers, looking with naive little eyes on the mysterious and unnecessary sadness of the gathered people... That Requiem one would like to sing like a song, so much does it contain of native humanity..." O. Koshyts'

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The edition contains a 16-page booklet with a detailed article by L. Parhomenko and information about the choir. The texts are in Ukrainian, English.