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European Muses, partnership of zamus Cologne with musicians from #Ukraine
The Zamus, Center for Early Music Cologne, started a partnership with Ukrainian musicians with the same question: How can we involve our colleagues in the European scene?
The early #music movement in #Ukraine is still quite young and characterized by a widely cultivated culture of choral singing and strong roots in very archaic folk music, sometimes with its own instruments such as the bandura. In terms of baroque performance practice, it is above all a strong harpsichord scene that has existed since the 1990s.
There are a number of important musical manuscripts of early music from the Ukraine, including the »Partesnyi« Concerti. These anonymous compositions form a special style of vocal polyphony of #Baroque. The Lviv tablature, a Renaissance lute manuscript, also contains works by well-known European composers as well as purely Ukrainian compositions. And last but not least, there is the folk mystery play »Galaganyvski Vertep«, which sounds a variety of Ukrainian melodies from different genres and ethnic groups.
In the first step of »European Muses«, in our series zamus: unlimited we invite the harpsichord professor Svitlana Shabaltina from Kiev and her young colleague Ljubov Titarenko to the matinee concert »For two to play«: Sunday, August 7, 2022, 11.30 a.m., St Maria in Lyskirchen, Cologne (a co-production with #WDR 3).
Furthermore, Zamus supports the »Muses are not silent« initiative of the Lemberg Philharmonic. The 19th Early Music Festival will also take place there in August, to which the Zamus members of Sequentia Benjamin Bagby and Norbert Rodenkirchen will travel to the Ukraine and perform. This concert will be broadcast internationally via live stream and video. There will be donation opportunities for the Ukrainian musicians: »We look forward to enriching musical experiences and encounters!«
For two to play
Thomas Tomkins For Two to Play, one of the earliest pieces for harpsichord four hands, forms the starting point for an extraordinary excursion into the world of keyboard music for four hands with the two Ukrainian harpsichord performers Svitlana Shabaltina and Liubov Titarenko. Beginning in Elizabethan England, they come from their homeland via music of the 17th and 18th centuries to the French harpsichord repertoire of the High Baroque and end their European journey through time with Mozart’s and Beethoven’s four-hand sonatas in Austria.
Sunday, August 7, 2022, 11:30 a.m., Sankt Maria in Lyskirchen, An Lyskirchen 10, 50676 Cologne, Svitlana Shabaltina Harpsichord, Liubov Titarenko Harpsichord, admission 10 or 15 euros, the concert will be recorded by WDR 3, tickets here…