The audio is a selection of Kupala songs from the Ukrainian Radio collection.
The playlist consists of the following songs:
1. Fragment of the opera “Kupalo”: introduction, scene of Odarka and Halya. Arranged by Myroslav Skoryk. Performers: soloists, choir, and symphony orchestra of the Lviv Conservatory Opera Studio, conducted by Oleksandr Hrytsak.
2. Anatoliy Haydenko, Concerto No. 2 for accordion and orchestra, third movement. Performers: Oleksandr Mishchenko - accordion, accompaniment - Academic Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, conducted by Sviatoslav Lytvynenko
3. Borys Pidhoretskyi, opera “The Bathing Spark”, a fragment of the first act. Performers: artists of Kyiv theaters, accompanied by the Song Ensemble of Ukrainian Television and Radio, conducted by Andriy Bobyr, chief choirmaster Yuriy Taranchenko
4. Vitaliy Hubarenko's “Kupalo”. Performers: Symphony Orchestra of the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic, conducted by Vakhtang Jordania
5. Yevhen Stankovych “When the Fern Blossoms”, fragment. Performers: The State Honored Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir named after Hryhorii Veriovka, conducted by Anatolii Avdiievskyi, accompanied by the State Honored Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Fedir Glushchenko, vocals by Nina Matvienko
6. Yevhen Stankovych "Kupalo. Kyivan Rus". Performers: Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, conducted by Vyacheslav Blinov
7. Ihor Shamo's “Yatran Games”: “Maryinka”, “The Three Musicians”, “Say White-winged Seagulls”, ‘Rain’, “Sing and Rejoice, Earth”. Performers: the choir of the Korniychuk Kyiv Institute of Culture, conducted by Anatoliy Markhlevsky.
8. Ihor Shamo's “Yatranski Games”: “Kupalska”, “Rusalna”. Performers: P. Maiboroda Academic Choir of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, conducted by Viktor Skoromnyi.
9. “Kupalochka”, arrangement by Hanna Havrylets. Vocals by Nina Matvienko, accompaniment by the Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Volodymyr Sirenko
10. Kupala dance “Marina”. Performers: The State Honored Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir named after Hryhoriy Veriovka, artistic director Anatoliy Avdiievsky, conductor Anatoliy Dubyna
11. Lesia Dychko, cantata No. 10 “Dawn in Kyiv”, fourth part - “Kupalo”. Performers: The Revutsky State Men's Choir, artistic director Bohdan Antkiv, accompanied by the Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Oleh Kudriashov
12. Oleksandr Zhylinsky's “Midsummer Fun”. Performers: Lybid vocal trio: Lidia Mykhailenko, Natalia Yatchenko, and Valentyna Mykhailova. Accompaniment by Serhiy Sapozhnyk and Serhiy Tatiyenko.
13. Pylyp Kozytskyi “Variations on a Kupala Theme”. Performers: Mykola Lysenko String Quartet of the Kyiv Philharmonic: Anatolii Bazhenov, Borys Skvortsov, Yurii Kholodov, Leonid Krasnoshchek.
14. Yakiv Lapynskyi, “Kupalskyi” concerto for double bass and orchestra. Performers: Oleksandr Melnyk, instrumental ensemble of the Union of Composers of Ukraine, conducted by Ihor Blazhkov.
The selection was prepared by Natalia Popudribko, editor-in-chief of the Music Programs and Stock Recordings Department at Ukrainian Radio.