Winter Whispers Violina Petrychenko

• Mykola Silvansky: Night by the River:
• 1 Silvansky: Night by the River 01:29
• Vasyl Barvinsky (1888 - 1963): Song in G Minor:
• 2 Barvinsky: Song in G Minor 03:28
• Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols:
• 3 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Eternal God 00:48
• 4 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: New Joy 00:37
• 5 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Heaven and Earth 01:26
• 6 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: New Joy Has Come 01:36
• 7 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: A Star in the Sky 01:28
• 8 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Oh, Marvelous Birth of the Son of God 01:09
• 9 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Good Evening to You, Lord Master 01:14
• 10 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Is the Poor Widow at Home? 00:35
• 11 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: What a Wonder Is This 02:29
• 12 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Christ Is Born 01:25
• 13 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: In Bethlehem Now There are Glad tidings 01:48
• 14 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: Don't Cry, Rachel 02:57
• 15 Kolyadki: Ukrainian Christmas Carols: It was a Holy Evening 01:27
• 16 Kolyadki: Lullaby in E Minor 02:25
• Vítězslav Novák (1870 - 1949): Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in E Major:
• 17 Novák: Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in E Major: Song on a Moonlit Night: Andante amoroso 04:11
• Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in F Minor:
• 18 Novák: Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in F Minor: Song on a Stormy Night: Allegro tempestoso 02:16
• Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in F Sharp Major:
• 19 Novák: Songs of a Winter´s Night, op. 30 in F Sharp Major: Song on Christmas Night: Andante misterioso 07:00
• Valentyn Silvestrov (b. 1937): Five Melodies for the New Year:
• 20 Silvestrov: Five Melodies for the New Year: I. Moderato 04:09
• 21 Silvestrov: Five Melodies for the New Year: II. Allegretto 02:30
• 22 Silvestrov: Five Melodies for the New Year: III. Allegro 03:24
• 23 Silvestrov: Five Melodies for the New Year: IV. Andante 03:48
• 24 Silvestrov: Five Melodies for the New Year: V. Moderato 02:32
• Fairy Tale from the cycle 'Naive Music' in C Minor:
• 25 Silvestrov: Fairy Tale from the cycle 'Naive Music' in C Minor 07:50
• Mykola Dremlyuga: Preludes from the cycle 'Winter' in C Major:
• 26 Dremlyuga: Preludes from the cycle 'Winter' in C Major 01:39
• Preludes from the cycle 'Winter' in F Sharp Major:
• 27 Dremlyuga: Preludes from the cycle 'Winter' in F Sharp Major 03:49
• Vesnyanka from the 'Spring Suite' in E Minor:
• 28 Dremlyuga: Vesnyanka from the 'Spring Suite' in E Minor 05:39
• Serge Yushkevich (b. 1953): Carol of the Bells in F Sharp Minor:
• 29 Yushkevich: Carol of the Bells in F Sharp Minor 01:39
• Total Runtime 01:16:47

Info for Winter Whispers

This album consists mainly of first recordings and is entitled "Winter Whispers". It is a collection of Ukrainian Christmas and winter compositions that create a magical atmosphere. The album offers a musical bouquet of melodies that will transport you into the enchanting mood of the winter holidays. From emotional Christmas carols and generous compositions by Barvinsky to the tender melodies of Silvestrov and breathtaking arrangements of Ukrainian classics such as Yushkevich's brilliant interpretation of "Shchedryk", this album will transport you to the picturesque world of winter fairy tales. The programme also includes Dremlyuga's spring song "Vesnyanka", which symbolises the hope for the coming of a bright and energetic spring after a long winter.

Violina Petrychenko, piano

Violina Petrychenko
is from Ukraine. She was born into a family of musicians in Zaporizhia, where she started playing the piano at the age of 6.

She studied piano and musicology at the music high school in Zaporizhia , however her initial focus was more in the scientific area. In this context she took part in international conferences, but also in piano competitions. At the age of 12 she participated in the International Prokofiev Competition, and at 16 her first theoretical paper was published. She was awarded both of her diplomas with distinction.

Violina began studying at the Nationalen Tschaikowsky- Musikakademie of Ukraine (Kyiv), majoring in piano. Since 2007 she continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Lizt in Weimar and then and then continued to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Professor Jacob Leuschner.

Violina is now completing her studies in the class of Professor Evgueni Sinaiski at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She has also taken part in master classes with Peter Nagy, Ferenz Rados, Jeffry Swann, Evgeny Skovorodnikov, Bernd Götzke, Konrad Elser and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Violina has also received numerous awards, scholarships and prizes, including from the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, the Neue Liszt Stiftung in Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung in Weimar, Anna-Ruths Stiftung in Cologne, the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung and the Theodor-Rogler Stiftung.

She has been awarded the DAAD Prize for outstanding academic and artistic achievements, the Folkwang Prize in the field of music, a diploma in the Rosario Marciano Competition and the Audience Prize in the Medenus Competition. The artist can look back on a very active concert career. Concert tours have taken her through Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, and Violina has played several times for Deutschlandradio Kultur as well as for the radio and television stations MDR and WDR. She has performed at several festivals (including the Bayreuth Piano Festival, Euro Music Festival, Rösrath Piano Festival, Klangwelten (Bad Ahrweiler), Alt Kainacher Musiktage (Austria), Euregio Festival (Germany), Palermo Classica (Sicily). In 2016, the Museum für Lackkunst (BASF) in Münster presented Violina Petrychenko with her own concert series.

She also plays a large portion of her concerts as a chamber music partner and song accompanist. In 2011 she founded the Duo Kiol with the saxophonist Kirstin Niederstraßer. Violina Petrychenko plays in the chamber music ensembles Duo Adamé (clarinet, piano) and Trio Sérénade (clarinet, violin, piano).

In addition, she also focuses on historical keyboard instruments. This is expressed in numerous concerts (including the Stadtschloss and the Franz Liszt Wohnhaus in Weimar, and the Schlossmuseum in Sondershausen.

Violina positions itself in the tradition of Ukrainian culture and seeks to popularise it. So far she has recorded three CDs.

In 2014 her solo CD was released by ARS with piano works by A. Skrjabin and first recordings of the Ukrainian composer V. Kosenko. The CD received great critical acclaim and gave cause for further exploration of Ukrainian classical music: In November 2015 her CD "Ukrainian Moods" was released. Since 2016 she has been focusing on the work of Vasyl Barvinsky and sees her mission as making his name known again.

In 2017 the CD "The Silenced Voice of Vasyl Barvinsky" was released, the first recording of his piano works. On the occasion of his jubilee year 2018, Violina performed a series of concerts in Europe and Ukraine. She has played in the Nationalphilharmonie Lemberg, Nationalphilharmonie Khmelnytskyi, and the Nationalphilharmonie Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as the Czernowitzer Philharmonie and the National Oper in Lemberg. Some concerts were performed with the support of the Ukrainian consulates in Germany and France. Violina received official thanks from the Consulate General of Ukraine for popularizing Ukrainian culture and the music of Vasyl Barvinsky.

Besides her work as a concert pianist, Violina Petrychenko leads a private piano class in Cologne and is a jury member of the international piano competition for modern music "CONCOURS - FESTIVAL RÉPERTOIRE PIANISTIQUE MODERNE”.

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