Ukrainian Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles. Masterpieces of Ukrainian Music.

There is no doubt that the fourth collection of this series will cheer up everyone who will have the luck of listening to it. Even those who do not know Ukrainian – and, naturally, those who know and understand it. In Ukraine, such positive music, the more so in these generous amounts, was never created either before or after the times of VIEs' bloom. Now, it is merry – but people have changed a little... There exist several theories related to reasons for appearance of this kind of music, and not all of them are optimistic. But, nevertheless, the fact remains a fact – with sounds of these songs, it is just impossible to cherish gloomy moods. It is impossible, and you don't want to do that – in the end, what is the sense of resisting beautiful things that enter your life? Thus, we should recommend this to you as well: do not resist – enjoy!

It is not only interesting, but also pleasant to know that – guess who – Oleg Skrypka himself made a direct contribution into compilation of absolutely all discs of the "Masterpieces of Ukrainian Music" series. Considering that it was his recording house "Kraina Mriy" that has been working over the series – that is, actually, not surprising. But, in any case, it is nice to see that Skrypka has revealed an outstanding awareness of the material. You should also take into account how extensive the palette of themes selected has appeared – and not hackneyed, by the way... We believe that when working over these compilations, he had a lot of interesting discoveries for himself – and we have no doubt that for the future audience of these discs these discoveries may appear no less interesting...