Vitaliy Kireiko: a conversation with the composer

He was recorded in 1981. A conversation with the composer Vitaliy Kireiko about his creative dreams, writing the Symphony Concertante and Symphony No. 2, the problems of his works, and the relationship between the composer and the listener.

Reference: Vitaliy Kireiko is a Ukrainian composer, musician, and public figure who is a professor at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. He is the author of Ukraine's first double concerto for violin and cello with orchestra, a chamber comic opera Vernissage at the Fair, and the first satirical opera extravaganza Marko in Hell. The artist's creative heritage includes 299 opuses of various genres and has become part of the treasury of Ukrainian classical music of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.