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You see in front of you not simply the next compact disc of the academic choir “Pochaina”. “Duma about a Girl-Captive” by Mykhailo Verykivskyi was declared to be the first Ukrainian oratorio – and it’s a well-known fact that the thing, which appears first, always attracts attention. Especially since it may be not only heard, but seen as well. The author composed it in 1923, the year when he graduated from Kiev Conservatory, for soloists, a man’s choir and a woman’s choir and full symphony orchestra. If you know, those times were difficult not only for Ukrainian culture, but for the Ukrainian people in general. That’s why it is not a surprise that the oratorio is charged with heroic spirit. It recreates self-sacrificing struggle of the Ukrainian Cossacks against Turkish enslavers and reveals the bright character of Marusya-Bohuslavka who was the liberator of seven hundred of captives-compatriots. But through this heroic pathos sometimes comes in view such tender lyricism that you understand involuntarily that people’s soul survives and preserves itself not through struggle, but through beauty. Uncle Fedir – the one who was Mykhailovych – was quite right.
Publisher: Rostok Records
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