Postcards from Ukraine Vol.3: Folk Dialogues

 
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / FREDERIC CHOPIN / PERCY GRAINGER etc
Postcards from Ukraine Vol.3: Folk Dialogues
Markiyan Melnychenko (violin), Steward Kelly (piano)

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Release Date: Friday 10 April 2026

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The first album of Postcards from Ukraine gave a potted history of Ukrainian music in the form of a series of miniatures for piano and violin, and the second presented four outstanding chamber works by important Ukrainian composers. This third instalment brings six new arrangements of Ukrainian folksongs, for violin and piano, by Markiyan Melnychenko, integrating them into a programme of folksong and -dance arrangements by some of his best-known virtuoso predecessors.

'The first volume in this series offered violin miniatures and this second presents a chamber music perspective on Ukrainian music and thus longer, more involved pieces from a quartet of significant composers, from Vasyl Barvinsky (b.1888) to Yevhen Stankovych (b.1942), still alive at the time of writing… The performers, led by Markiyan Melnychenko, play with sensitivity and have been well recorded. I'm looking forward to volume 3.' - Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International (Vol.2: TOCN0043)

Tracks:

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1 (trans. Joseph Joachim)
- no.6 in B flat major

FREDERIC CHOPIN
Polish Songs (17), op.74
- no.16 Lithuanian Song (arr. Leopold Auer)

STEPHEN FOSTER
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. Jascha Heifetz)

PERCY GRAINGER
Molly on the Shore (arr. Kreisler for violin and piano)

JENO HUBAY
Scene de la Csarda no.4, op.32 'Hejre Kati'

ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Gayaneh
- Sabre Dance (arr. Heifetz)

FRITZ KREISLER
La Gitana
Londonderry Air
Slavonic Fantasie (Dvorak)

MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
Piano Pieces (2), op.45
- no.2 Guitarre (arr. Sarasate for violin and piano)

MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Sorochintsy Fair
- Hopak (arr. Dushkin)

MAUEL PONCE
Estrellita (trans. Heifetz)

TRADITIONAL
Deep River (arr. Heifetz)
Moon upon the Heavens (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)
Podolyanochka (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)
The Duckling Swims along the Tysa (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)
The Shepherd (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)
The Steppe Wind Blows (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)
Ukrainian Dance (arr. Markiyan Melnychenko)