Kyiv Chamber Choir. Romuald Twardowski. "Kyivska" Liturgy.

Romuald Twardowski is a known modern Polish composer having Ukrainian and Lithuanian roots. Recently, he has been paying considerable attention to church, spiritual music – he is even the permanent chairman of the jury of the Church Music Festival in the town of Hajnowka in Poland from 1983. Actually, it is here, at the Festival, that he became acquainted in the 1990s with creativity of the chamber choir "Kyiv", he made friends with its creative leader and conductor – Mykola Gobdych. The communication appeared to be fruitful – and mastery of the collective, as we see, did not leave the composer indifferent. As a result, Romuald Twardowski composes in 2006 "Kyivska" Liturgy – and dedicates it exactly to the chamber choir "Kyiv". Such honor and attention could not remain without an answer – consequently, as it could be expected, the choir became the performer of the Liturgy... This is, sure, a good record – transparently soft and strong at the same time. And it is not by chance that we mentioned roots at the beginning – the Liturgy harmoniously combines Western European and Ukrainian melodics. Thus, another beauty able to wash out borders appears...