Three Romances
US premiere; after Lina Kostenko
Performed by Vira Slywotzky (Contralto), Pavel Gintov (Piano)
Three Romances after Lina Kostenko was created in 2023 and is the composer’s first vocal cycle in Ukrainian in the academic sense. The selected texts are essentially small love stories, where the depth of feelings does not spill out without shores but is restrained by a philosophical view and aphoristic statements. There are no contrasting changes in images, which makes it possible to perceive the set as a single triptych to which each performer can add their own colors and intonations.