Kyiv Camerata. Ihor Scherbakov. Chamber Symphonies.

"Igor Shcherbakov is a famous Ukrainian composer and music activist, head of Kyiv office of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, he works in nearly all genres of music. Ihor Shcherbakov's music world possesses bright authorial features. It is characterized, on the one hand, by dynamism, passion, expressiveness, on the other – tenderness and lyricism. Such a combination of opposing emotional nuances contributes into reproduction of various psychological states and adds special spiritual profoundness to the music.

Chamber symphonies present samples of Ihor Shcherbakov's composer excellence in the field of instrumental music. While each of these works has its own image and audio world, they are all ideologically and thematically similar, they have generic features of romantic lyrical and dramatic poetic confession. Search for inner peace, harmony is the key theme, which is modeled differently in each of the pieces..." Hanna Lunina, musicologist (information from the release's polygraphy)

Soloists: Andriy Tuchapets (viola), Bohdana Pivnenko (violin).

The edition contains an 8-page booklet with information about the composer, ensemble, soloists (in Ukrainian and English), as well as about the chamber symphonies presented here (in Ukrainian). This disc is a component part of the series "The Anthology of the Modern Ukrainian Music", within which the best works by Skoryk, Sylvestrov, Stankovich, Zubytsky, Kiva, Levkovich have been released. In the discs' design, works by the outstanding modern Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk were used.