Ihor Kushpler (1949-2012)
Chamomile blossoms in the mountains

Borys Lyatoshynsky (1894-1968)
Grief after grief

Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky (1909-1983)
Four oxen I Graze

Konstantin Dankevych (1905-1964)
Air de Stekha, extrait de l'opéra "Nazar Stodolya"
Air de Varvara, extrait de l'opéra "Bodhan Khmelnytskyy"

Yuliy Meitus (1903-1997)
Ballade "Ksenia"

Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
Air de Natsha, extrait de l'opéra "Taras Bulba"

Viktor Matyuk (1852-1912)
Beloved Homeland

Oleh Kiva (1947-2007)
Cantate de chambre

Mélodies traditionnelles d'Ukraine
I do not want to sleep (arr. O. Chyshko)

Zoryana Kushpler, mezzo-soprano
Luhansk Symphony Orchestra
Ivan Ostapovych, direction

Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Zoryana Kushpler was an ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera from 2007 to 2020 and performs regularly on the major international stages and festivals as both an opera and Lied singer. Kushpler pays special attention to music from and around her home country. Less than six months after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in violation of international law, she gathered the Luhansk Symphony Orchestra, which had fled its home town in its entirety, in Lviv to record opera arias by Ukrainian composers and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for this CD production in collaboration with conductor Ivan Ostapovych. The resulting album “Ukrainian InterMezzo” offers an insight into the work of the most important Ukrainian composers such as Mykola Lysenko, Julij Mejtus, Borys Lyatoshynsky, Oles Chyshko, Viktor Matyuk, Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky or Oleh Kiva, which is characterized by the special local color and themes such as love, longing and homeland.