FULL 28 Contrasts Praeludium Staged Song Recital Lviv 2022 Victoriia Vitrenko
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: 28 Contrasts Praeludium
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic, Lviv, Ukraine
- Recorded: October 1, 2022
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Victoriia Vitrenko
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Victoriia Vitrenko, PIANO
- Stage Director: Titus Selge
- Costume Designer: Astrid Eisenberger
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Lviv Philharmonic
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Consuming and being consumed as a metaphor: from yearning, almost allegorical eating to “bloodthirsty consuming” via “being consumed” to “sacrificing oneself” as a grim catharsis. Similarly existential to Sven Ingo Koch’s “Simple Songs & Lieder des Verzehrens”, written together with the lyricist Jan Wagner, are four other cycles commissioned by the exceptional artist Viktoriia Vitrenko for her LIMBO project. The image of the singer accompanying herself on the piano as the most intimate expression concentrated on herself describes the “limbo”, the state of suspension into which the pandemic has placed us. More song than art song, the vocal works reveal various psychological states of being in-between.
The play on closeness and distance, loneliness and global location reflect not only the artist’s situation of pandemic seclusion, but also the threatening situation in her native Ukraine (in Alla Zagaykevych’s song cycle “Signs of Presence” now became a global catastrophe just a few weeks later after the premiere on 06 February 2022) and the isolation of the resistance fighter in the prison cell: LIMBO is dedicated to the Belarusian colleague and friend Maria Kalesnikava, who was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison. The theme of irrational limbo thus takes on a dramatic, very real dimension.
Texts of the vocal cycles here
• Victoriia Vitrenko, vocals, piano and performance
• Titus Selge, stage director
• Astrid Eisenberger, costume designer
Program:
• Agata Zubel (1978). Three songs for prepared piano and voice without words (2021)
• Alla Zagaykevych (1966). “Signs of Presence” for voice and piano after Iia Kyva (2021)
• Ying Wang (1976). “Illuminations” for voice, piano and tape (2022)
• Sven-Ingo Koch (1974). “Simple Songs” & “Lieder des Verzehrens” for voice and piano. Dedicated to Jan Wagner (2020–2021)
• Maksym Shalygin (1985). «Lieder der Heilgen Narren», vocal cycle for voice and piano (2009/10)