"...Яровов исполнил очередной шедевр на лютне (автором которого, как было заявлено числился малоизвестный композитор старой школы, писавший исключительно для лютни, друг и собутыльник Бетховена)..."
Что бы это могло быть??? Не это ли?
A shudder of apprehention..........</lj>
Another Makhnvovist ballad for your perusal and delectation:
http://www.torban.org/pisni/swityt.html
Pryemnogho rozvaghu...
The CANTIONES RUTHENICAE project is finished, at the mark of 50 titles (57 really, with all the variants): http://www.torban.org/ruthenicae/
Its predecessor http://www.torban.org/sarmaticae/ clocked 140 titles (187 actually).
I am convinced of having done something of beauty, but arousing a sustained interest in this among the lutenists is another matter. Time will tell.
Some of these songs are entirely my own, but who could tell?
For over 30 years I have been unaffected by the Ukrainian musical culture, until it overtook me sometime after the birth of my children in 2000, possibly because it is my first childhood memory- summertime evenings on the Desna, and boatfuls of girls returning from the other side after milking the cows, and singing...
A deep bow to
mathiasroesel who did a tremendous amount of testing and proofreading, lute in hand.
Thursday, May 17th 7:00PM
Devotional songs from the oral tradition of the kobzari (itinerant bards)
and from Ukraine’s baroque composers (Tuptalo, Javorskyj, Slavinetskyj,
Turovskyj). Voices, flutes, baroque lute,
banduras, lira, and more.
http://ctmd.org/pages/schedUk.html
Tickets $15.00; Museum and CTMD members $13.00; seniors and students $10.00.
Tickets and reservations can be obtained in advance by calling 212-228-0110.
The Ukrainian Museum is at 222 East 6th Street.
http://polyhymnion.org/swv/images/ma...e-n
It was written for Roland "Orlandu" Ferrandi, who played it at the Ajaccio Festival a year ago.
http://polyhymnion.org/lieder/german.htm
And special thanks to