National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2008.

Concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academic Choir of the Ukrainian Radio named after Platon Mayboroda.

The program includes: "Bless, my soul, the Lord" by Kyrylo Stetsenko; "Oh, there is a mountain" by Mykola Leontovych (soloist Mykola Zayka); "The Eternal Council" by Pavel Chesnokov (soloist Tetyana Tkach); "A snowball is flying from behind the mountain" by Mykola Leontovych (soloists Leonid Gornostayev, Mykola Zayka, Borys Dun); "Kupalo" by Yevhen Stankovych from the folk opera "The Fern Flower" (soloists Tetyana Tkach, Natalia Kukharenko); "Hallelujah" by Roman Tvardovsky; "Soon Ah Will Be Done" (spiritual); "My Good Friends" by Platon Maiboroda and Taras Masenko performed by the choir and symphony orchestra of the Ukrainian Radio; choirs from the operas "Il Trovatore" and "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi; "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff from the cantata "Carmina Burana"; "Many Summers" by Dmitry Bortnyansky.

Conductors: Volodymyr Skoromny, Yuriy Tkach, Lyudmila Shavlovska, Volodymyr Sheiko.

Comments: Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting Volodymyr Horovtsov; President of the National Radio Company Vitaliy Nabrusko; Vice President of the National Television Company Igor Tolstykh; Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Oleksandr Beng; composer Lesya Dychko; choirmaster Dmytro Radik; musicologist Hanna Stepancheko; choirmaster Svitlana Pavlyuchenko.

75th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Radio Choir

Lviv, 1989. The video features songs performed by Inesa Bratuschyk, Pavlo Dvorsky, Nazariy Yaremchuk, and the Smerichka Vocal Group. Recorded in the studio and outdoors. 

Directed by Halyna Yarema, edited by Myroslav Skochylias. 

Inessa Bratuschyk sings

A selection of songs for the twenty-fifth episode of the UnZip podcast on the topic “Children's Songs from the Past?”.

Listen to the podcast recording <a href="https://li.sten.to/7gmi5mdo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><ins>here</ins></a>

The playlist contains the following songs:

1. “Lullaby” by Konstantin Ognevy. Authors: Pylyp Bryl and Volodymyr Krylenko. Recorded in 1967. 
2. “In the Land of Childhood” by Tetyana Rusova. Authors: Arkady Filipenko, Mykola Syngaevsky. Recorded in 1975. 
3. “We bought a bear” by Yevhen Bohorodsky. Author: Viktor Kosenko. Recorded in 1955. 
4. "Glory to the Pirate" from the children's operetta "When You Have Friends". Author: Maria Zavalishyna. Recorded in 1969. 
5. “The Capital of My Childhood” by Oleksandr Taranets. Authors: Stepan Sabadash, Volodymyr Kudriavtsev. Recorded in 1974.
6. "Lullaby of Button and Mykyta" from the operetta "Volodymyrska Hirka" by Nina Lyapina and Yaroslav Krykun. Author: Vladlen Lukashov.
7. “Oh, there is a dream” by Nina Matvienko. A folk song. Recorded in 1988. 
8. “Lullaby” by Hanh Van, Ngoc Anh. Recorded in 1955. 
9. “Lullaby to a Little Kyivan” by Nina Matvienko. Authors: Oleksandr Bilash, Borys Oliynyk. Recorded in 1985.

UNZIP is a podcast immersion in the archives of Ukrainian music. You will hear how the host Albert Tsukrenko and the guests of the UnZip podcast are looking for answers to the questions of our musical identity. And most importantly, they will surprise you with songs found in the archives of Ukrainian Radio.

Children's songs from the past (UnZip, Episode #25)

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 1998.

Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Krushelnytska. Festive concert for the 60th anniversary of the birth of Myroslav Skoryk.

The program includes People's Artist of Ukraine, violinist Bohodar Kotorovych and Honored Artist of Ukraine, cellist Maria Tchaikovsky, accompanied by the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Contains a fragment of an interview with Myroslav Skoryk, Mykola Kolessa and Maria Tchaikovsky.

Reference: Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk (1938–2020) is a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, teacher and public figure. Hero of Ukraine (2008), People's Artist of Ukraine (1988), Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1969), laureate of the Shevchenko Prize and the Mykola Ostrovsky Republican Prize (1968). Posthumously honored with the title "National Legend of Ukraine" (2021).

Concert for the 60th anniversary of Myroslav Skoryk

The audio playlist features the ensemble of Lviv Radio and Television conducted by Bohdan Yanivsky. Among the compositions are "Date," "There is a Fairy Tale in the World," "Cherry Blossom" (from the play "The Eternally Living"), "Blavatsky Waltz," "Golden Tram," "Sad Moon," "Night Leads Us Through Lviv" (another title is "Lviv Nocturne"), "Three Plus Two," and others. 

Reference: Bohdan Yanivsky is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and teacher. He is a People's Artist of Ukraine, winner of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize. Bohdan Yanivsky was born on July 4, 1941 in Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Conservatory. 

He worked as a music editor at Lviv Regional Radio, head of the music department of the Lviv Young Spectator Theater, and taught at the conservatory. He died on June 17, 2005, and was buried at Lychakiv Cemetery. 

The material was digitized by the team of the "House of Sound" department of Lviv Radio with the assistance of the Department of Composition and the Problematic Research Laboratory of Musical Ethnology of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.

Ensemble of Lviv Radio and Television: director Bohdan Yanivsky

Lutsk, 1995. The program “Roses on the platform”.

The video features the Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater, a concert by People's Artist of Ukraine Anatolii Horchynskyi. Some of the songs are in russian.

The program was prepared by: Yaroslav Sarapin, Omelian Ivaniuk, Marko Kleinerman, Viacheslav Bielov, Halyna Fetysova, Zhanna Biruk, Pavlo Smychuk.

Concert by Anatoly Gorchinsky

2004, Lviv television. The music entertainment program “We Support Ukrainian” is dedicated to the life of Ukrainian show business.

The video includes: screensavers, the City Day in Rava-Ruska (549 years old), shots of the city, a street fair, a concert, performances by the bands “Yaka is” and “Kraina Khata”, a performance by singer Oleksandr Ponomaryov, an interview with singer Natalka Samsonova, acting shots of musician Oleh Skrypka. Comments: Petro Hren, head of Zhovkva district administration; Vasyl Lozynskyi, mayor of Rava-Ruska; Liubov Fityo, vocalist of the Kraina Khata band; singer Oleksandr Ponomaryov; local residents.

The program uses clips: Natalka Samsonova's “Birthday”; VV's “Spring”; EL Kravchuk's ‘Fate’, Druha Rika's “Already not alone”, Number 482's “Radio is yours”.

Author: Orysia Shulym.

Music program “We support Ukrainian”

2017, Cherkasy Regional Directorate, a branch of UA:PBC PJSC. A program from the series “Star Cocktail”, an interview with the Ukrainian musician, leader of the band “Druha Rika”.

The video features: backgrounds, an interview with Valeriy Kharchyshyn, hosted by Halyna Mazur, photos of the musician, clips from the band “Druha Rika” - ‘Angel’ and “Drinking from your palms”.

“Star Cocktail” with Valeriy Kharchyshyn

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1991.

Film-concert "Hey, fly eagle..." of a Ukrainian folk song performed by kobzar-bandurist Volodymyr Yesypok.

Reference: Volodymyr Yesypok is a Ukrainian bandurist and singer (bass), People's Artist of Ukraine, professor, head of the National Union of Kobzars of Ukraine. Soloist of the State Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Ukraine, lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Author of numerous stock recordings and collections of bandurist repertoire.


Volodymyr Yesypok: "Hey, fly eagle..."

2002, National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine.

Music program “And the music sounds...” with the participation of Ukrainian pop stars: Ruslana (“After Spring is Summer”, “I Know”), Alibi duo (“I Don't Love You Anymore”), Anzhelika Rudnytska (“I'm a Wall for You”), the Karamazov Brothers (“Golden Rays”), Iryna Bilyk (“Let's Go”, “Dreamland”), Verka Serdyuchka (“Hop-Hop”, ‘Vodka’, “I Was Born for Love”).

Рrogram “And the music sounds...”

May 20, 2004, Kyiv.

A plot about the problem of filling Ukrainian television with domestic video and audiovisual content. Conference at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, speakers, audience. Commentary by Mykhailo Poplavsky.

Speakers: singer Pavlo Zibrov; People's Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Hryshko; singer Ivo Bobul; singer, People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykhailo Poplavsky.

To be or not to be a Ukrainian song?

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

Music program "And the Music Sounds..." with the participation of: Lilia Bilous ("On the Crowded Platform"), Pavlo Dvorsky ("Everything Passes"), Raisa Kyrychenko ("Again I Dreamed of Childhood"), Mykola Mozgovy ("The Land, My Native Land"), Tamara Gverdtsiteli ("The Power of the Bird"), Dmytro Hnatyuk ("The Quiet Autumn Skies Bloom").