Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv with National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine: “Poems & Rhapsodies” on Centaur Records
February 11 release features “The Lark Ascending” by Vaughan Williams, works by Saint-Saëns and Chausson, and the American composer Kenneth Fuchs
Plus rarities by the Ukrainian composers Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky and Myroslav Skoryk
Hot on the heels of her highly acclaimed recent recordings of Mendelssohn Concertos and Haydn and Hummel Concertos, the violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv brings us a collection of programmatic works for violin and orchestra, “Poems and Rhapsodies” (Centaur CRC 3799, release date February 11, 2022).
Along with the evocative and ethereal sound of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, the recording includes the American composer Kenneth Fuchs' American Rhapsody, and works by Camille Saint-Saëns and Ernest Chausson. Solomiya Ivakhiv also recorded rarely-heard music by her countrymen, the Ukrainian composers Myroslav Skoryk and Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky. The score for Kos-Anatolsky's Poem for Violin and Orchestra, written in 1962, was lost. In 2019, Solomiya Ivakhiv commissioned Bohdan Kryvopust to reconstruct the orchestration from an early recording.
The National Symphony of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko conducting, joins Ms. Ivakhiv in the recording studio, as does the American cellist Sophie Shao, who is featured in Saint-Saëns’ La muse et le poète.
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Poems and Rhapsodies
Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
Volodymyr Sirenko, conductor
with Sophie Shao, cello (on Saint-Saëns La muse et le poète)
Centaur (#CRC3799)
Release date: February 11, 2022
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TRACKS
Camille Saint-Saëns
[01] La muse et le poète, Op. 132 (17:24)
with Sophie Shao, cello
Ernest Chausson
[02] Poème, Op. 25 (16:43)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
[03] The Lark Ascending (16:37)
Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky
[04] Poem for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor (9:22)
Kenneth Fuchs
[05] American Rhapsody (Romance for Violin and Orchestra) (11:47)
Myroslav Skoryk
[06] Carpathian Rhapsody (6:40)
Total Time = 78:37
Ukrainian born, American Solomiya Ivakhiv, 2021 recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine, is an accomplished concert violinist, chamber musician, collaborator, educator, and champion of new music. Concertizing internationally, her wide range of repertoire includes the premiere of numerous new works for violin. Dr. Ivakhiv has performed solo and chamber music at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, CBC Glenn Gould Studio, Curtis Institute Field Concert Hall, Italian Academy in New York City, Pickman Hall in Cambridge (MA), San Jose Chamber Music Society, Old First Concerts in San Francisco, Astoria Music Festival (Portland), Tchaikovsky Hall in Kyiv, Concertgebouw Mirror Hall, and at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. A dedicated champion of new music, Dr. Ivakhiv has been privileged to premiere numerous new works for violin by composers Eli Marshall, David Ludwig, John B. Hedges, Bohdan Kryvopust, Yevhen Stankovych, Bruce Adolphe, David Dzubay, Leonid Hrabovsky, and Oleksandr Shchetynsky.