https://alter-ratio.com.ua alter-ratio.com.ua Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:54:35 +0000 https://alter-ratio.com.ua en https://alter-ratio.com.ua/about-header Tue, 12 Oct 2021 21:50:29 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/about-header ABOUT       REPERTOIRE https://alter-ratio.com.ua/World-music Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:44:41 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/World-music Marius Baranauskas /LT/ 1978 Aidas virstylincio akmens, for 12 voices or for mixed choir Luciano Berio /IT/ 1925-2003 Cries of London, for 8 voices Sicilian love song, for mixed choir Johannes Brahms /DE/ 1833-1897 Regina Coeli, for female choir Benjamin Britten /GB/ 1913-1976 A Ceremony of Carols, for female choir and organ William Byrd /GB/ 1543-1623 Regina Coeli Kyrie eleison Gloria Pēteris Vasks /LV/ 1946 Litene, for mixed choir Mate saule, for mixed choir Madrigal, for mixed choir Thomas Luis de Victoria /ES/ 1548-1611 Ave Regina Coelorum John Dowland /GB/ 1563-1626 If floods of tears Woeful hearts Rihards Durba /LV/ 1964 Alma Redemptoris Mater, for mixed choir, organ and tabular bells Moris Durufle /FR/  1902-1986 Ubi caritas, for mixed choir Guillaume Dufay /FR/ 1397-1474 Alma Redemptoris MaterConditor alme siderum Zoltan Kodaly /HU/ 1882-1967 Veni, veni Emmanuel, for mixed choir William Cornysh /GB/ 1465-1523 Ah, Robin Martin Lauridsen /US/ 1943 O magnum misterium, for mixed choir David Lang /US/ 1957 The little match girl passion, for 4 voices or mixed choir and percussions Gyorgy Ligeti /HU/ 1923-2006 Nouvelles Avantures, for three soloists and an instrumental ensemble Lux aeterna, for 16-part mixed choir a cappellaNonsense Madrigals, for 6 male voices a cappellaMagyar Etüdök (Hungarian studies), for mixed choir a cappella Rytis Mažulis  /LT/ 1961 Canon solus Atkelk vėlių vartelius Apsulbusi akis prarado amą Iš kurgitai žinotgalėčiauaš?.. Meredith Monk /US/ 1942 Parts from the opera Atlas, for vocal and instrumental ensembles The Celebration Service, for mixed choir Tomas Morley /GB/ 1557-1602 My Bonny Lass It was a lover and his lass Now is the month of maying In Springtime Full Fathom Five Šarūnas Nakas /LT/ 1962 Motetas, for 4 voices Georgs Pelecis /LV/ 1947 Christmas carols, for female voices and instrumental ensemble Krzysztof Penderecki /PL/ 1933-2020 Song of Cherubim, for mixed choir Sanctus, for female choir Benedictus, for female choir Francis Poulenc /FR/ 1899-1963 Salve Regina, for mixed choir Quatre Petites Prières de Saint François d’Assise, for male choir Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel, for mixed choir Arvo Part /ЕЕ/1935 Salve Regina, for mixed choir and organ Psalm 117, for mixed choir Psalm 131, for mixed choir Da pacem Domine, for mixed choir Missa sillabica, for mixed choir Magnificat, for mixed choir Thomas Ravenscroft /GB/ 1582-1633 Hey down, down Ut re mi Steve Reich /US/ 1936 Music for 18 musicians, for women's quartet and instrumental ensemble Proverb, for 4 soloists, two electric organs, two vibraphones John Tavener /GB/ 1944-2013 Mother and Child, for mixed choir, organ and bells Mother of God here I stand, for mixed choir Prayer to the Holy Trinity, for mixed choir Song for Athene, for mixed choir The Lamb, for mixed choir The Lord's Prayer, for mixed choirTwo Hymns to the Mother of God, for two mixed choirs Toru Takemitsu /JP/ 1930-1996 Songs, for mixed choir Handmade Proverbs, for mixed choir Tomas Tallis /GB/ 1505-1585 Miserere O sacrum convivium Veljo Tormis /ЕЕ/ 1930 Raua needmine, for mixed choir and shamanic drum Morton Feldman /US/ 1926-1987 Rothko Chapel, for mixed choir and instrumental ensemble Voices and instruments I, for vocal and instrumental ensembles Voices and instruments II, for vocal and instrumental ensemble Beat Furrer /AT/CH/ 1954 Enigma, for mixed choir Alfred Schnittke /RU/ 1934-1998 Choir concert, for mixed choir https://alter-ratio.com.ua/Ukrainian-music Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:39:53 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/Ukrainian-music Maxim Kolomiiets /UA/ 1981 Paths of the Rejected, cantata for female choir, solo soprano and chamber orchestraMarian antiphons for 12 soloists with percussion and oboe (English horn) Alma Redemptoris mater Ave regina caelorum Regina caeli Salve Regina Disappearing voices, for vocal ensemble and electronic, to text by Viktor Rekalo Anna Korsun /UA/ 1986 Landscapes, for 5 voices Voce rumori, for 6 voices Boris Loginov /UA/ 1990 Rite, for 12 voices Svyatoslav Lunyov /UA/ 1964 Alleluia, for mixed choir Blagago Tsarya Blagaya Matu, for female ensemble Mariologia, for mixed choir, harp and percussion: Alma Redemptoris mater Ave regina caelorum Regina caeli Salve Regina Holy Week, for mixed choir The Noel Consort, concert for choir based in traditional carols Choreography, for 12 voices a cappella Victoria Poleva /UA/ 1962 The singing mountain, for 12 voices, oboe, vibraphone and stonesProstospiv, for soprano and women's choir on canonical texts Alexey Retinsky /UA/ 1986 Antiphonae Marinae, for mixed choir and percussion: Alma Redemptoris mater Ave regina caelorum Regina caeli Salve Regina Choirs for Iphigenia in Tauris performance Maxim Shalygin /UA/ 1985 Antiphonae Marinae, for mixed choir and percussion: Alma Redemptoris mater Ave regina caelorum  Salve Regina Oil upon your shore, for mixed choir Blessing, for 8 voices or mixed choir Sub Rosa, for vocal ensemble and electronic, to text by Robert Frost Alexandr Shymko /UA/ 1977 Equilibrium, for 4 voices and chamber orchestra Chronos, for mixed choir and chamber orchestra https://alter-ratio.com.ua/Projects-1 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:16:16 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/Projects-1 https://alter-ratio.com.ua/LUX-AETERNA-Psalms-of-falling Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:54:35 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/LUX-AETERNA-Psalms-of-falling Lux Aeterna. Psalms of falling Gyorgy Ligeti Lux aeterna, for 16 voices (version for 12 voices and electronics) Peter Kerkelov phos-phorus, for vocal ensemble and electronics Maxim Kolomiiets Disappearing voices, for vocal ensemble and electronics on a text by Viktor Rekalo Maxim Shalygin Sub Rosa, for vocal ensemble and electronics on a text by Robert Frost Alla Zagaykevych Psalms of Falling, for vocal ensemble and electronics on a text by Iya Kywa Olga Prykhodko Author of the idea and producer Maryana Shiposh Project manager The Lux Aeterna. Psalms of falling is a project about memory, fragility and infinity. The memory of generations that lives in each of us. The fragility of human life, which is interrupted so unexpectedly. The infinity and continuity of all processes that surround us - people. The Lux Aeterna. Psalms of falling was inspired by the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great inventor for new musical soundscapes, György Ligeti. The first part of the title of this project is a reference to Ligeti's masterpiece Lux Aeterna for 16 voices, a turning point in Western vocal music. The main theme of the project is the memory of all the dead Ukrainian artists who became victims of the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Bulgarian composers Maxim Kolomiiets, Maxim Shalygin, Alla Zagaykevych, Peter Kerkelov composed pieces for vocal ensemble and electronics as a dedication to the memory of these people. All four pieces take up’s Ligeti’s eternal music both musically and in terms of content and show the many facets of contemporary Ukrainian music. Each of the composer use the electronics in his own way – this include combination of voice and tape, the combination and search for live timbres, the constructiona of a new timbres based on  data synthesis, electronic vocie processing in a real time, etc. In this project Alter Ratio presents Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna in version that replace four of 16 voices with electronics—also as a symbol for and in memory of the missing voices of teh Ukrainian artist and people killed during the war. https://alter-ratio.com.ua/choreography Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:58:04 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/choreography Choreography  performance Joint project of the vocal ensemble Alter Ratio and Victoriia Vitrenko. Choreography is an original vocal and choreographic performance to the music of Ukrainian composer Sviatoslav Lunyov, in which the language of dance is born through the interaction with vocal and ensemble singing techniques. Artistic director and producer of the project —Olga Prykhodko https://alter-ratio.com.ua/a-celebration-service Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:03:37 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/a-celebration-service Meredith Monk A Celebration Service Joint Ukrainian-American project by vocal ensemble Alter Ratio and Meredith Monk / The House Foundation for the Arts. The project was supported by the United States Embassy in Ukraine on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations. The vocal and choreographic performance A Celebration Service reproduces a unique atmosphere of combining the spiritual and the physical through the connection of singing, dancing and the play of light and shadow. This journey into the world of spiritual traditions of different cultures is unlimited in time. In this "holiday service", written in 1999 before the new millennium, Meredith Monk combines singing and singing, dancing and reading from Buddhist texts, Hasidic sayings, Zen poetry and Christian prayer. The international format of the project made possible the joint staging of the performance, the exchange of experience between American and Ukrainian artists. The collaboration was joined by director Tom Bogdan and choreographer Allison Easter, who are members of Meredith Monk / The House Foundation for the Art and Meredith Monk`s Vocal Ensemble. The project involved leading Ukrainian artists in the field of contemporary art: Vocal Ensemble Alter Ratio (artistic director—Olga Prykhodko), Sed Contra Ensemble (artistic director—Andriy Merhel), jazz singer Nazgul Shukaeva, light artist and set designer Dmytro Kostyuminsky, video artist Alina Fedotova. https://alter-ratio.com.ua/the-little-match-girl-passion Thu, 16 Dec 2021 01:43:24 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/the-little-match-girl-passion Musical-theatrical performance based on David Lang's «The little match girl passion» Project by the vocal ensemble Alter Ratio with the participation of director Dmitry Kostiyminskyi. Performance strangely intertwines horror and beauty. The main heroine is a girl, she goes the way of total lack of money of the family, bullying of her peers, incest and father’s violence. Going an unbearable path to the desired life, she dies from cold, drug overdose and indifference of the surrounding society. The dance appears here both at the level of modern plastics and in the rhythm of the vocal line. And in it rejection is no less than the desire for unity. "In this performance we do not play, we do not depict. We are ourselves, we are each of you. This Passion for indifference, for cynicism and loneliness in society " David Lang: «I wanted to tell a story. A special story: the story of a girl with matches of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. It's like a kid's tale. As in many famous stories for children, there is a shocking mixture in it: a terrible plot and moral. The poor little girl who is beaten by her father on the eve of the New Year unsuccessfully tries to sell matches on the street, nobody pays attention to her, and she dies from the cold on the last evening of the old year. On this path, she somehow preserves the Christian purity of the spirit».  David Lang equated the suffering of the freezing girl to Christ. By combining Hans Andersen's fairytale girl with matches with the church genre, he brought her thinking to a new level—comprehensive, humane, painful, social and super-actual. https://alter-ratio.com.ua/visionaries Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:11:06 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/visionaries Visionaries of Sound Steve Reich / US "Proverb" based on the texts of Ludwig Wittgenstein, for five voices, two vibraphones and two electric organs (* Ukrainian premiere) Maxim Kolomiiets / UA "Gli sguardi pigri" based on the text by Tristan Tzar from the opera "Espenbaum" (Osokore) (2003/2018), for female ensemble a cappellaAnna Korsun / UA / DE Landscapes (2014), for five votesOleksiy Retinsky / UA / AT (born 1986, Ukraine) suite from the play "Iphigenia in Tauris" on the texts of the ancient tragedy of Euripides (2015), for female voices and percussion instruments Maxim Shalygin / UA / NL "Oil upon your shore", the text based on the libretto by Charles Genens of the oratorio GF Handel "Israel in Egypt" (2019), for the choir a cappella (* Ukrainian prem 'era)Beat Furrer / AT / CH "Enigma" on lyrics by Leonardo da Vinci (2006/2015), for choir (* Ukrainian premiere) Alfred Schnittke / RU Concerto for choir a cappella based on lyrics by Grigor of Narik. The Visionaries of Sound project is dedicated to the decade of founding vocal ensemble Alter Ratio. The concert program is based on the main creative credo of the group—promoting the new Ukrainian and European vocal, ensemble and choral music. The concert program includes premieres of both young Ukrainian composers and leading composers of contemporary European and American music. One of the motives that unites all the works in the program are allusions or very specific "mentions" of different historical epochs. Steve Reich's Proverb, as he said, is the result of a study of the work of Perotin and representatives of the Notre Dame school; Beat Furrer`s works «Enigma» voiced the prophecies of Leonardo da Vinci; Alexei Retinsky wrote works on the original ancient Greek text of the tragedy of Euripides, using reconstructed modes of ancient Greek music. Each of these works in one way or another "expands" the possibilities of the human voice and gives the choral sound of supernatural qualities. Anna Korsun went the furthest in her work Landscapes—she used an incredible palette of extended vocal techniques. In Maxim Kolomiiets`s and Maxim Shalygin`s works harmonious and timbre techniques make the vocal ensemble sound like various instruments, or an orchestra, or create the illusion of electronic sound. https://alter-ratio.com.ua/iphigenia Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:30:27 +0000 alter-ratio.com.ua https://alter-ratio.com.ua/iphigenia Iphigenia in Tauris. Bride for terrorist Project by Dmytro Kostyuminsky, with the participation of the vocal ensemble Alter Ratio. Director—Dmitry Kostiumynskyi (with Igor Aronov) Set design—Dmitry Kostiumynskyi  Text—Euripides (adapting Dmitry Kostiumynskyi) translated Innocentyi AnenskyiMusic and Live electronic—Alex Retynskyi Voice—Nazgul Shukayeva Chorus—Vocal Ensemble Alter Ratio under the direction of Olga Prykhodko Percussion—Elena Shabelska Stage play with prologue, three acts and seven scenes. Stage play is performed in Russian language. Iphigenia, the victim. Iphigenia, the priestess. Iphigenia, the loving sister. The classic tragedy of Euripides re-thought and adapted to contemporary reality is laid in the plot of the stage play.  Old Greece tragedy crosses the dimension of modernity and became actual today. For many centuries the works of Euripides inclines humankind to dialog between different social categories, try to mend relations in society, balance its structure on basis of democracy principles. Stage play reflects relations of Ukraine that is on stage of creation of its independence and states that hold dominating position on global arena. Place of events is Tauris, contemporary Crimea. Total globalization of the world, both informative and economic, comes to decadence that leads to fight of the system with itself and occurrence of new and new world and civil conflicts. For solving of the problem it is necessary to make a sacrifice. In given historical era the development of idea of radical Islamism, born in fact from the system itself, could not have come in better time. And this is the reason why Islamism received a label of global terrorism that should be fought against. In era of global fight, change of social system and geo-political redistribution of existing borders, Iphigenia stands on block-post of disappearing world. She’s bewildered, unable to understand her inner voice. She’s hesitating about worthiness of future act, should she sacrifice herself and her motherland. «Terroristic hypothesis lays in the fact that system has to kill itself in answer to a range of deaths—challenges. Because neither system, nor power is able to avoid the symbolical need, and this is the only chance to ruin them.» Jean Baudrillard.