August 20, 2006, Balaklava, Crimea.

A plot about the music festival “Treasure Island”. The bay, yachts, people in a cafe on the pier, a concert, hosts and artists on stage, stand-up journalists, fireworks.

Comments: festival president Oleksandr Yaremenko; festival host Ruslana Pysanka; SMS band member Guana; singer Gaitana.

"Treasure Island: music festival in Balaklava

January 23, 2005, Kyiv.

The video shows a gala concert at the Ukraine Palace on the occasion of Viktor Yushchenko's inauguration. Hosts: Oksana Bilozir and Vasyl Ilashchuk. Accompanied by the National Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.

Concert participants: Maria Stef'yuk; Dmytro Hnatyuk; Taras Shtonda; Kyiv Chamber Choir; ManSound male vocal ensemble; Kyiv Saxophone Quartet; Oksana Dika; Dmytro Popov; Olga Nahorna; Etella Chupryk; Dmytro Tkachenko; Maria Stef'yuk; Nina Matvienko; L. Revutsky State Academic Male Choir of Ukraine; Oleksandr Chugai; Oleksandr Gurets; Oleksandr Diachenko; Dmytro Popov; Choir of the National Opera of Ukraine; National Honored Academic Choir of Ukraine “Dumka.”

Concert for Yushchenko's inauguration

On the audio, the composition “Ukrainian Patterns” is performed by the Academic Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of the Ukrainian Radio. Composed by Vasyl Popadyuk, instrumentation by Oleksiy Masnyi. The flute is played by Oles Zhuravchak. Conductor - Mykhailo Pikulsky. 

Ukrainian Radio, together with Suspilne Media Library, is releasing unique archival recordings collected over 100 years in the project "Treasures of the Ukrainian Radio Music Library". As part of the project, you will hear the voices of prominent writers, singers, legendary announcers, and music by Ukrainian Radio artistic groups. You can listen to the recordings on the Suspilne Media Library website and on the project's YouTube page.

“Ukrainian patterns”

A selection of songs for the twenty-seventh episode of the UnZip podcast on the topic of “What People Do at Night.”

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. Galina Sholina's “Evening Song”. Authors: Kyrylo Stetsenko, Volodymyr Samoilenko, piano by Rosaliya Elvova. 1952.
2. “Draw me the night” by Lyudmyla Antonenko. Authors: Myroslav Skoryk, Mykola Petrenko. 1984
3. Nina Matvienko and the boys' choir “Dudaryk” perform the Ukrainian folk song “To a Gray Cat”. 1988
4. “Night” from the children's operetta “When Friends Are” performed by Maria Zavalishyna. 1969
5. Albert Tsukrenko's “Night in the office”. 2018
6. VIA “Kobza” “What a moonlit night”. 1972
7. Vocal quartet “Starry Night”. Composed by Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky. 1966
8. Yurko Yurchenko, “The Night Continues”. 1998
9. Nazariy Yaremchuk “When the blue mountains fell asleep”. Author: Anatolii Kos-Anatolskyi 1980
10. Zwyntar band “Night will fall”, 2025.

What people do at night (UnZip, Episode #27)

Lviv TV, editorial office of artistic programs. The program “Coffee Gathers Friends”. Author and host Petro Ostapyshyn. Directed by Oksana Chumachenko.

The video features a military band, Anatoliy Hnatiuk (“You said on Monday”, “Not everything happened as expected”), the modern ballet “Akverias”, the band “Van Gogh” (‘Contrasts’, “It will pass”), Petro Ostapyshyn performing the song “At a coffee in Lviv”.

“Coffee Gathers Friends”

The audio is the song “Quietly Falling Flowers”, music by Klymentiy Domyntshen, lyrics by Oleksandr Bohachuk. Performed by the Academic Choir of Ukrainian Radio, conducted by Leonid Balabaychenko, soloist - Viktor Zhenchenko.

Ukrainian Radio, together with Suspilne Media Library, is releasing unique archival recordings collected over 100 years in the project “Treasures of the Ukrainian Radio Music Library”. As part of the project, you will hear the voices of prominent writers, singers, legendary announcers, and music by Ukrainian Radio artistic groups. You can listen to the recordings on the Suspilne Media Library website and on the project's YouTube page.

The song “Quietly falling flowers”

Ukrainian Studio of Television Films, 1986.

A television film-concert with the participation of Honored Worker of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR Mykhailo Slyvotsky. Ukrainian songs and works by composers: Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky, Ihor Poklad, Henryk Pfeil, Bohdan Yurkiv, Bohdan Shiptura are performed on poems by: Dmytro Lutsenko, Mykola Lukiv, Vadim Kryshchenko, Stepan Pushyk. The concert is attended by: Yuriy Feyda, Yuriy Kurylo, Mykhailo Pavlyuk, Halyna Kotyk, Yuriy Serganyuk, Oleksandr Shulyar, Pavlo Cholovsky.

Reference: Mykhailo Slyvotsky is a Ukrainian countertenor, teacher, professor, Honored Artist of Ukraine. He taught at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, headed the regional branch of the National All-Ukrainian Musical Union, was a member of several musical ensembles and the author of scientific and methodological works.

Mykhailo Slyvotsky “The Mountains Are Singing”

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1983.

Concert of the Ukrainian folk song "My Little Songs" performed by Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Lydia Kondrashevska.

Filming took place at the Museum of Life and Ethnography of the Ukrainian SSR (now the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine, "Pyrogov").

Reference: Lydia Kondrashevska is a Ukrainian opera and concert singer, People's Artist of Ukraine, soloist of the National Philharmonic. She graduated from the Lviv Conservatory, worked in leading musical institutions of the country.

Lydia Kondrashevska "My Little Songs"

A selection of songs for the twenty-sixth episode of the UnZip podcast on “How Gender Roles in Ukrainian Songs Are Changing.”

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. Mykola Hnatiuk “Oh, you girl, from a nut of grain”. Authors: Anatolii Kos-Anatolskyi, Ivan Franko, 1964.
2. Mykola Kondratiuk “There is a fog in the valley”. Authors: Borys Buyevsky, Vasyl Didenko, 1965
3. Rusia “Don't stand under the window”. Authors: Konstantin Osaulenko, Anatoly Matviychuk.
4. The Sokoly band, soloist Maria Shalaikevych - “We all want love”. Music by Maria Shalaikevych, lyrics by Vadym Kryshchenko
5. VIA Smerichka - “Say, say”. Authors: Valerii Hromtsev, Vasyl Babukh, 1976.
6. HZV “Stroke V Trust”, recording of 2025
7. The State Honored Transcarpathian Folk Choir “Girl Farewell”. An old Transcarpathian recruitment folk song, 1961
8. “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” “She”. Composed by Kost Moskalets, recorded in 1994-95.

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.

How gender roles are changing in Ukrainian songs (UnZip, Episode #26)

Lviv television, 1987. Concert program by the Medicus Ensemble. Artistic director Roman Lozynsky. 

The video features songs performed by Levko Tsymbal, Marta Lozynska, and Natalia Mazepa. The video contains technical defects.

VIA Medicus: 1987

On the audio, the Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian Radio performs the Ukrainian folk song “Why is the Oak Not Green” arranged by Mykola Lysenko. Conductor Klymentiy Dominchen, soloist Viktor Bilynyk.

Ukrainian Radio, together with the Suspilne Media Library, is releasing unique archival recordings collected over 100 years in the project “Treasures of the Ukrainian Radio Sound Library”. As part of the project, you will hear the voices of prominent writers, singers, legendary announcers, and music by Ukrainian Radio artistic groups. You can listen to the recordings on the Suspilne Media Library website and on the project's YouTube page.

“Why is the oak not green”: a folk song

1999, National Company of Ukraine. A program from the Classic Premieres series dedicated to the art of male solo singing.

The video includes screenshots, a studio conversation with People's Artist of Ukraine Valeriy Buymister, fragments of performances by Oleh Riabets (male soprano), Vasyl Slipak (countertenor), Eric Salim-Meruet (counter-alto), and Jochen Kowalski (countertenor).

Songs from the concert performances include Orpheus' aria from Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice; Vanya's aria from Glinka's Life for the Tsar; and Handel's Messiah aria and oratorio.

Program hosts: Tetiana Milenina and Viktor Lifanchuk.