SONGS OF WAR AND PEACE
This concert programme focuses on the theme of war and peace, which is as relevant today, in view of an ongoing war in Ukraine, as it was for different peoples through the ages. It features works for voices, choir and symphony orchestra by composers from different periods and countries but particularly from Ukraine and Lithuania. In this programme, the resident collectives and artists of the Klaipėda State Music Theatre – the symphony orchestra and mixed choir under the baton of its Chief Conductor and music director of this programme, Tomas Ambrozaitis, and soloists – will be joined by guests from the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta (Ukraine) – soloists Olena Arbuzova, Valeriia Tulis and women’s group of the choir under the baton of the theatre’s chief conductor, Sergiy Didok.
PROGRAMME
Heorhij MAIBORODA (1913–1993)
Jolan’s aria from the opera Milana (libretto by Ahata Turchynska, 1957)
Performers: Olena Arbuzova (soprano), KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Mykhailo VERYKIVSKY (1896–1962)
Pannochka’s aria from the musical comedy Viy (1936; new revised version 1945)
Performers: Valeriia Tulis (soprano), KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav SAMOFALOV (*1963)
Ave Maria
Performers: Valeriia Tulis (soprano), Olena Arbuzova (soprano), Women’s group of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta Choir and KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Ihor SHAMO (1925–1982)
Three numbers from the folk (choral) opera Yatranskiye Igri (Yatran Games, libretto by Vasyl Yukhymovych, 1978): “Tyrlych-tyrlych”, “Yatran”, “Kupalska”
Performers: Women’s group of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta Choir
Song Oy, plyvi vinok (Oh, float the wreath) for choir, arr. by Sergiy Didok for choir and orchestra
Ihor POKLAD (*1941)
Pisnya pro matir (Song about Mother), lyrics by Borys Oliynyk
Performers: Women’s group of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta Choir and KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Eduardas BALSYS (1919–1984)
Prologue from the ballet Eglė, Queen of the Grass Snakes (1960)
Myroslav SKORYK (1938–2020)
Melody from the music for the film Vysokiy pereval (The High Pass, 1982)
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Vladimiras KONSTANTINOVAS (*1958)
Tau Tėvynės dangus (Homeland’s Sky is For You), lyrics by Alis Balbierius (1988)
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra and Mixed Choir
Danguolė BEINARYTĖ (*1971)
Elaborated Dzūkian folk song Dzūkit dzūkit, girnelės (Keep buzzing, grindstones)
Performers: KSMT Mixed Choir
Giedrius KUPREVIČIUS (*1944)
Chorus “Ant kalnelio…” (On a Hill…) from the opera Prussians, finale (1997)
Vladimiras KONSTANTINOVAS (*1958)
Arrangement of East Prussian folk song Jau aušt aušružė (The Dawn is Breaking) for choir and orchestra (2022)
Stasys ŠIMKUS (1887–1943)
Song Lietuviais esame mes gimę (We are born as Lithuanians) for choir, lyrics by Georg Sauerwein (1908)
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra and Mixed Choir
Vytautas KLOVA (1926–2009)
Mirta and Ūdrys’ duet and Ūdrys’ song from the opera Pilėnai (1955)
Performers: Beata Ignatavičiūtė (soprano), Mindaugas Rojus (baritone), KSMT Symphony Orchestra and Mixed Choir
Giedrius KUPREVIČIUS (*1944)
Kristina’s aria from the opera Prussians (1997)
Performers: Beata Ignatavičiūtė (soprano), KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Iryna KYRYLINA (1953–2017)
Song Zapalyu svichu (Light a candle), lyrics by Ruslana Lotsman
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra and Mixed Choir, Women’s group of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 (1810)
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra
Giuseppe VERDI (1813–1901)
Chorus of the Hebrew slaves “Va, pensiero” from the opera Nabucco, Act III (1842)
Performers: KSMT Symphony Orchestra and Mixed Choir, Women’s group of the Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta
