In the latest episode of UNZIP, Albert Tsukrenko speaks with musician and Vivienne Mort frontwoman Daniela Zayushkina about creativity and music in times of war. Here is the playlist for this episode:

1. Lidiya Vidash, “I Will Go to the Distant Mountains” (1971)
2. VIA “Medobory,” “Three Roads” (1981)
3. Dmytro Hnatiuk, “Thoughts on Canada and Ukraine” (1956)
4. Pavlo Dvorskyi and Nina Melnyk, “To Friends Across the Blue Sea” (1995)
5. Levko Durko, “I'm Going to Yugoslavia” (1992)
6. The Vyo, “Kobelyaky” (2014)
7. Iskra, “My Enchanting Country. Prologue” (1983) 
8. Malo, “Oslo Beckoned Her” (2018)
9. Andriy Mykolaychyk, “I'll Go and Drown” (1989)
10. Ruslana, “The Last Journey” (Live) (1998)
11. Vasyl Zinkevych, “For Happiness, For Fate.”

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UNZIP is a podcast that delves into the archives of Ukrainian music. You’ll hear host Albert Tsukrenko and his guests on the UnZip podcast search for answers to questions about our musical identity. And best of all, they’ll surprise you with songs unearthed from the archives of Ukrainian Radio.

Daniela Zayushkina (Vivienne Mort): tours, songs about travel, and favorite retro artists. The latest episode of the Unzip podcast

Lviv Television, June 17, 1986. Music program editor.

Concert of works by Johann Strauss and Eduard Strauss in the courdoner of the Potocki Palace. The program includes waltzes, polkas and arias from operettas.

Reference: Eduard Strauss is an Austrian composer and conductor, a representative of the famous Strauss musical dynasty, who for a long time led the family orchestra and popularized Viennese dance music. He created about 200 dance works (waltzes, polkas, gallops) and distinguished himself primarily as an interpreter of the music of his father and brothers, ensuring its stage success in Europe.

Johann Strauss II is an Austrian composer, conductor and violinist. A representative of the Viennese musical tradition, who is considered the "king of the waltz". His music is distinguished by its melodic expressiveness, rhythmic flexibility and combination of dance forms with symphonic development, which raised the waltz and operetta to the level of high art.

Concert of waltzes by Johann and Eduard Strauss

Lviv Television, December 9, 1986.

A musical program featuring opera singer Anna Bachynska to music by Austrian composer Johann Strauss (Jr.).

Reference: Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer, conductor and violinist, one of the most prominent representatives of the Viennese musical tradition, who is considered the "king of the waltz". His music is distinguished by its melodic expressiveness, rhythmic flexibility and combination of dance forms with symphonic development, which raised the waltz and operetta to the level of high art.

Anna Bachynska sings

Odessa Television, 1998. The episode of the program "Paraphrase" is dedicated to the performance of the Ukrainian folk choir from the villages of Baranove and Bohunov, Ivanovo district, Odessa region.

The program featured a performance by the Ukrainian choir in the studio (artistic director Ivan Solonenko, concertmasters Yuriy Maksymenko and Oleksiy Tatsiyenko), the songs "Batkivshchynonka", "Zhuravli", "Pioniya", "Ternova khustka", "Lastivka", "Bilya krinytsia".

Comments: artistic director of the choir Ivan Solonenko; soloists of the choir Valentina Regeshchuk, Stefaniya Rudkovska.

Host — Yevheniya Moshchytska.

"Paraphrase": Ukrainian folk choir

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

Film-concert "In every heart the voice of the Fatherland" with the participation of leading Ukrainian pop artists.

In the concert program: vocal trio of bandurists of Ukrainian Television and Radio, Honored Artists of Ukraine Alla Shutko, Svitlana Petrova, Antonina Mamchenko perform the song "Welcome"; the song "Ask from the Hearts" is performed by VIA "Kobza"; "Melancholie" is performed by Sofia Rotaru; "May you be lucky, good people..." is performed by Vasyl Zinkevich; Margarita's aria from the opera "Mephistopheles" is performed by Gisella Tsypola; Levko's aria from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "May Night" is performed by Anatoly Solovyanenko; dance number "Pas de deux" performed by Tatyana Tayakina and Valery Kovtun; Lidia Zabilyasta performs the role of Natalka from the opera "Natalka-Poltavka".

Contains performances of songs in russian.

Ukrainian pop: "In every heart the voice of the Fatherland"

Chernivtsi Television. Creative evening of composer Mykola Novytskyi "In a Wreath of Melodies" from June 2, 2003.

In the concert program: brass band "Bukovyna", soloist Ivan Derda; vocal group of the chamber choir of the regional philharmonic society; performance of the philharmonic society soloists Vasyl Pindyk, Vasyl Smotrovy, Oleksandr Salnykov, Nina Kaplienko, Ivan Derda; director of the House of Culture of the city of Kitsman Mykola Perepichka; brass band of the Chernivtsi garrison, conductor Vasyl Bobyk; Mykola Rudyak and Mykola Perepichka perform the song "Spogad"; chamber choir of the regional philharmonic society, conductor Vasyl Halychanskyi, perform the song "Glory to Ukraine"; Mykola Novytskyi thanks the participants of the evening.

Reference: Mykola Novytskyi is a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, representative of the musical culture of Bukovina. The author of over 200 works, including songs for choir, instrumental music, and arrangements of folk songs, devoted a significant part of his creative activity to the development of musical education and culture in the city of Kitsman.

Mykola Novytskyi's creative evening

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1985.

A film-concert by the soloist of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater Natalia Svoboda. The program includes the romances "Spring Waters", "I Love You", "In the Silence of the Secret Night".

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Reference: Natalia Svoboda is a Ukrainian opera singer (mezzo-soprano), Honored Artist of Ukraine, a long-time soloist of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater and a teacher at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy. During her creative career, she has performed over 40 operatic roles and performed on international opera stages and festivals in European countries.

"Three Romances" by Natalia Svoboda

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1989.

The film "The Fern Flower" is dedicated to the State Honored Academic Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka and the creation of the folk opera "When the Fern Blooms" by Yevhen Stankovych.

On the video: preparation of vocalists for the performance, folk costumes; choir rehearsal, fragments of rehearsals; performance of the State Honored Academic Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka.

The film starred Anatoly Avdievsky, Nina Matvienko, Volodymyr Boyko, Valentina Kovalska, Lyudmila Klymenko, Yevhen Stankovych, as well as artists of the Ukrainian Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka, the folklore ensemble "Troyan" (village of Lyukhcha, Rivne region).

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Reference: The Heorhiy Veryovka Choir was founded in 1943 during World War II in Kharkiv; the founder and first leader of the group was the composer and choral conductor Heorhiy Veryovka. The first soloists of the choir were formed from members of front-line ensembles, and the modern structure of the group includes choral, dance and orchestral groups.

Yevhen Stankovych is a Ukrainian composer, one of the leading representatives of modern Ukrainian academic music, author of symphonic, opera and ballet works, professor at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine. His folk opera "When the Fern Blooms" (1978) gained wide popularity, combining elements of Ukrainian folklore, choral and symphonic music and becoming one of the most famous works of Ukrainian musical culture of the second half of the 20th century.

Yevhen Stankovych: "The Fern Flower"

Transcarpathian Television, 1996. Music program "Love Train" with the participation of Honored Artist of Ukraine Pavlo Zibrov and his wife Marina.

Performed by Pavlo Zibrov were the songs "Two Fates", "Women and Wine", "Natalie", "The Last Night of Love", "White Blossom on the Kalina".

Pavlo Zibrov "Love Train"

Transcarpathian Television, 1997. Spanish Opera Concert performed by the soloist of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic Oksana Ilnytska.

Program: Fernando Obradors "You Wounded My Heart", "About Love", Joaquin Nin "The Girl from Granada", Enrique Granados "The Sad Girl", Miguel Sandoval "Navarra".

Spanish Opera Concert

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

Film-concert of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Volodymyr Turets.

The songs "Over Ukraine" (music by Oleksandr Bilash, verses by Mykhailo Tkach) and "What Eyes Do I Have?" (music by Konstantin Myaskov, verses by Anatoly Dragomeretsky) were performed.

Reference: Volodymyr Turets is a Ukrainian opera and chamber singer, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, long-time soloist of the Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir named after Hryhoriy Veryovka. He performed classical and folk song repertoire and made a significant contribution to the popularization of Ukrainian vocal music in Ukraine and abroad.

Volodymyr Turets "What kind of eyes do I have?"

Transcarpathian Television. The program "From the Source of the People" from October 20, 1997 is dedicated to a concert program of an old Transcarpathian folk song performed by People's Artist of Ukraine, soloist of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic Society Petro Matiy.

In the program: "Hey, on the high meadow", "Oh, my darlings", "When so and so were sown", "Ivan went to the meadow to mow", "Good thing the scythe mows", "And what kind of man is that", "I will not marry", "Where is the thorn, there is the thorn", "Oh, the blond blond".

The filming took place in the Transcarpathian Regional Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.

Reference: Petro Matiy is a Ukrainian singer, composer and teacher, People's Artist of Ukraine, a long-time soloist of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic and the Honored Academic Transcarpathian Folk Choir. He has gained recognition as a performer of folk, chamber and vocal and stage repertoire, a laureate of artistic awards, and an educator of the young generation of Transcarpathian singers.