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Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938, Ukraine) - 11 Etudes (orchestrated)

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« on: January 22, 2020, 01:12:01 am »

The Ukrainian composer Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938) has attracted favourable comment on here before, particularly for his piano concerto.

His moderately well-known "11 Etudes in the Form of Old Dances" (Op.19), originally for solo piano have recently been orchestrated as part of a project called The Kosenko Code - www.kosenko.in.ua

It has actually been orchestrated twice - once by Evgeny Zhaku (also transliterated Jacques, but I can't find anything about him) and once by Leonid Bilchinsky (must be this guy - http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=41816 - 1924-2011).

On the home page of that website, there are three downloads of SCORES available:

1. The original piano version
2. The Zhaku orchestration
3. The Bilchinsky orchestration

The Zhaku version can be heard here -

The site is in Ukrainian only but google translate gives the following:

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Kosenko Code is an innovative cultural project that aims to disseminate music, namely contemporary orchestral versions of "11 Etudes in the Form of Ancient Dance", by the brilliant Ukrainian composer Viktor Kosenko around the world.

Specifically for this project 2 variants of scores were created for a series of famous works of the author: "11 sketches in the form of ancient dances".

Score and parts for triple composition of symphony orchestra. Edited by L. Bilchinsky. Established in 1982. Recruited and edited in 2018.
Score and parts for baroque (chamber) orchestra. Created in 2019 by Ukrainian composer Eugene Zhaku.
The works were restored on the basis of the original piano piano (urtext) by Viktor Kosenko.

The project also involves prominent musicians of our time, whose names are associated with Ukrainian music around the world.

In addition to creating and performing "ancient dances", the project aims to distribute scores free of charge to cultural institutions of Ukraine and the world, to consult and assist musicians in promoting the work of Viktor Kosenko.

The Composer

Victor Kosenko (1896-1938) became one of the most prominent Ukrainian composers of the early twentieth century. His genius is confidently compared to Rachmaninoff and Chopin.

Kosenko was born into a musical family in St. Petersburg. The family realized that the guy was a genius when he played Beethoven's works at the age of 12. Victor studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with students of Roman Korsakov. After that the composer moved to Zhytomyr and worked there at a music school. Now this school is named after him. In the last years of his life, Kosenko lived in Kiev, where his apartment museum still operates.

Viktor Kosenko wrote for large orchestra, for chamber ensembles and for his favorite instrument - the piano. For contemporaries, Kosenko was better known as a brilliant, virtuoso pianist-interpreter. His work includes nearly 200 works. He could have created much more, but unfortunately he died at the age of 42 due to the illness he received while performing in the cold halls during his youth.


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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2020, 01:12:40 am »

cntd....

ABOUT THE WORK

11 sketches in the form of ancient dances are a unique phenomenon in the Ukrainian and European musical culture of the first third of the twentieth century. This cycle, as if, represents a significant achievement of a number of composer generations and, at the same time, outstrips trends that will emerge in the cultural space only in ten years. We have in mind the unique understanding of the composer of the concept of time, its high demands on the participants of the artistic event-play (performers and listeners), because the cycle under consideration is an exclusively monumental work - perhaps not the most extensive piano suite ever written, before or after .Pig, the duration of which is almost 70 minutes. Thus, the "11 Etudes" are designed for the possibilities of a future, exclusive and, let's assume, postmodern performer and listener, able to move into the "canned" atmosphere in an instant, enchanted past, and, at the same time, keenly feel the nakedness of the present. The aesthetic presence in the bizarre, but harmonious classicist-romantic baroque continuum of piano sketches by V. Kosenko, "played out" on the Ukrainian intonation system, convinces that the limits of artistic time as such do not really exist.

Structure of the work
 "11 Etudes in the Form of Ancient Dancing" is an important stage in the evolution of V. Kosenko's artistic thinking. The cycle became an alloy of stylistic features of ancient dances, national elements and individual handwriting of the composer.

All dances are grouped into 3 groups:

the first - 5 dances: Gavot, Alemanda, Menuet, Courant and Sarabande;
second - 3 dances: Bure, Gavot, Rigodon;
third - 3 dances: Manuet, Pasakalia and Zhig - bring the listener to the highest climax.
Each individual work is a novelty with its dramatic plan, concept and unity of holistic development.
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2020, 04:55:36 am »

thank you for posting this !!
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2020, 12:42:49 pm »

The youtube link which I posted is of such poor sound quality, I wish there were better.

There is a good quality link with one of the movements (2. Allemande) here -

I am trying to find out if the Bilchinsky orchestration has been recorded.

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