Mykola Lysenko (1842 – 1912)
.Reverie, Visions of the Past, op.13 d minor
Dumka-Schumka, op.18 a- minor

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka op.17 nr4 a minor

Yakiv Stepovyi (1883-1921)
Valse op5.nr1 b-minor
Prelude op.9 nr1 b flat minor
Mazurka op.9 nr.2 E flat major

Prelude in Memory of Shevchenko op.13 a minor
Fantasia e minor


Pause

Yakiv Stepovyi (1883-1921)
Mriya (Dream) g minor

Levko Revutskyi (1889 – 1977)
Improvisation B flat major
Song op. 17 nr.1 g minor

Valentin Silvestrov (* 1937)
Three Bagatelles op. 1

1.Allegretto
2. Moderato
3. Moderato

Kitsch Music
1.Allegro vivace
2.Moderato
3. Allegretto
4.Moderato
5.Allegretto

The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian and moral catastrophe, but also a cultural and emotional one. The humanitarian and moral reach of the war is reported in the news every day. But on the cultural level we are increasingly realizing that we have paid too little attention to the music from the Ukraine for decades.

The Ukrainian-born pianist Violina Petrychenko, who has been living in Germany for years, deliberately offers a contrasting program on her new album "Mrii - Ukrainian Hope": "Mrii" is the Ukrainian word for "dream", and so the focus here is on pieces by Ukrainian composers, the ones hitherto little-known light, dreamy, romantic and at times melancholic side of Ukrainian music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The palette that we hear from composers, whose names we are hardly familiar with, is astonishingly diverse: from Mykola Lysenko's "Reverie", probably inspired by Schumann and Chopin, to Levko' Revutskyj piano music, which is obviously influenced by French impressionism and jazz - every piece in this program has a surprise!

Violina Petrychenko writes in the booklet for her new CD: "Since February 24, 2022, no Ukrainian can dream of anything other than the end of a brutal, senseless war."

And so this program, whose motto is the dream and dreaming, also becomes a political statement: No matter how destructive bombs and rockets may be - the dreams that people carry in their hearts will always be stronger!

How often do we really have the opportunity to follow our thoughts and hear our dreams?

The poetic, refined and graceful program of the concert invites you into the world of fantasy, into the reality of our dreams, where each of us creates images of our ideal world.

Close your eyes and enjoy the music of Lysenko, Stepovoy, Chopin, Revutsky and Silvestrov. Who knows, maybe by the end of the concert your dream will come true..