May events from the National House of Music

1 May 14:50

In May, the National House of Music put together concert programs for different tastes and occasions in the most beautiful locations in Kyiv: music worth listening to on the eve of Mother’s Day, the chamber sound of a large-scale symphony, the reflection of ancient music in the work of contemporary composers, world premieres by young authors, and Ukrainian Baroque at the National Museum of History of Ukraine.

O Sole Mio. For Mother’s Day

Music for the dearest ones will be performed on the eve of Mother’s Day! Sunny songs that breathe sea breeze and warmth will be a pleasant gift for mothers, and the most sensual and famous Ukrainian romances dedicated to mothers will complement the evening with tender gratitude to the main people in our lives. Finally, instrumental miniatures will complement the evening with a bright spring mood.

So, a joint walk with your mothers along the flowering streets of Kyiv, inspired by music and cozy interiors of the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery” – isn’t it a great idea for a spring gift?

may 10, 18:00 – National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery”

Echoes of epochs

The Baroque era has become one of the most influential in the history of world music. This is due to the technical improvement of instruments, the development of forms and genres, the division of music by the type of its use, and, ultimately, the formation of theoretical foundations that became crucial for the next few centuries.

Today, the works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries continue to amaze listeners with their sensuality, inspire with lightness and freedom, and surprise with virtuosity and perfection of form. Composers of subsequent eras continue to draw inspiration from ancient music to this day. And if someone says “it’s been done before,” on the one hand, they will be right, but on the other hand, the authors of each of the eras show their modernity in the forms of baroque music, and thus we will hear new content every time through the familiar external “frame.”

may 18, 18:00 – St. Andrew’s Church

Ancient music in museums. History

Continuation of the concert series Liatoshynskyi Capella: Early Music Ensemble. The fourth stop is the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, whose collection preserves Ukrainian monuments and tells about the events on our lands from ancient times to the present. Ukrainian music is also part of this historical process and reflects the development of national culture in the context of world history. The artists have prepared a program in which we observe how our music of the Baroque period, in particular the 17th and 18th centuries, developed. That is, we will hear how Ukraine sounded during the Cossack times. It will be a journey from cantatas to works by Maksym Berezovsky and Dmytro Bortnyansky.

may 24, 16:00 – National Museum of History of Ukraine

Schubert and Mahler

Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler are composers at different ends of the chronological scale of Austrian and European Romanticism. The former’s name is usually associated with the beginning of a departure from classicist harmony, symmetry of form, and even a certain rigor toward a romantic turn toward the inner world of man and his emotions, which was primarily embodied in instrumental and vocal miniatures and chamber genres. In contrast, the scale of Mahler’s symphonic work, with his Eighth Symphony (or “Symphony of a Thousand”), marked both the limit of the continuous expansion of Romantic ideas and the path to the development of modernist trends of the twentieth century.

This program by the Kyiv Chamber Ensemble will feature chamber instrumental works by Schubert and Mahler, which were inspired by their own vocal opuses. A special feature of the evening will be the opportunity to follow the evolution and transformation of songs into larger works, first listening to the source, and then to its embodiment in the composers’ further work.

may 30, 18:00 – “Breadbasket” of the National Conservation Area “St. Sophia of Kyiv”