Sam and Tim emerge from their winter hibernation for a special episode celebrating the musical culture of Ukraine. Six Ukrainian composers and performers share their favourite Ukrainian-composed music, while Sam takes a sideways look at Valentin Silvestrov’s delicate piece for synthesiser, piano and strings The Messenger.

Big thanks to Antonii Baryshevsky, Anna Fedorova, Pavel Gintov, Victoria Loukianetz, Ivan Nebesnyy and Ludmilla Yurina.

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Music referenced:
Okean Elzy’s ‘We Won’t Give Up the Fight’
Valentin Silvestrov’s Esquisses de crimée, Op. 8 – 1. ‘The Rocks of Uch-Kosh’, performed by Pavel Gintov
‘Song about the Cossack Holota’, performed by Dmytro Hubiak
Mykola Lysenko’s Byut’ porohy (‘Dniper's Rapids Are Roaring’), performed by the Orchestra of the National Broadcasting Company of Ukraine under Volodymyr Sirenko
The ‘Emigration Elegy’ by Stefania Turkewich, performed by Pavlo Hunka and Albert Krywolt
Beethoven’s Variations on Folk Songs, Op. 107 – 7. ‘Schöne Minka’, performed by Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace
Boris Lyatoshynsky’s Symphony No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 50, performed by the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar
Dmitry Bortniansky’s The Cherubic Hymn, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Paul Hillier
The overture to Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer
Valentin Silvestrov’s Kitsch Music – 1., performed by Vladimir Feltsman
‘Summertime’ from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, performed by Golda Schultz and the Metropolitan Opera
‘Ot hodit’ son kolo vikon’, performed by Kvitka Cisyk
Mykola Leontovych’s ‘Shchedryk’
Peter J. Wilhousky’s ‘Carol of the Bells’, performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Ivan Nebesnyy’s How Many Letters to You, performed by Svitlana Hleba and the Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra under Serhiy Burko
Valentin Silvestrov’s The Messenger, performed by Iryna Starodub and the Kiev Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky
Valentin Silvestrov’s ‘La belle Dame sans Merci’, performed by Alexei Lubimov and Alexei Martinov
The Odessa Opera Chorus performing the National Anthem of Ukraine by Mykhailo Verbytsky
Victoria Loukianetz performing ‘Ridna Maty Moya’

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