Mariya Krushelnytska. Viktor Kosenko. 11 etudiv u formi starovynnyh tanciv.

As a matter of fact, Viktor Kosenko – the author of this series – is one of the most interesting Ukrainian composers of the beginning of the 20-th century, a representative of such artistic tendency as neoclassicism. And it is exactly his series "11 etudes" that has become, strictly speaking, an example of neoclassicism in Ukrainian music. Still, if I did not open the cover, I would not know this – as well as some other interesting facts. All the same, I do hope that it would not prevent me from getting pleasure from the music itself. No, it would not. Since the knowledge of facts has nothing to do with immediate perception – let it be music, or colour, or scent, or some event in your life. With me it may happen that I do not know the name of an author or a singer, I may not know that the instrument is called "a piano" - so, what of that? You see, I listen to music and hear it (it occurs later that I understand if I like it or not, etc.), or I do not hear, that’s all. Everything is simple. At that, this music encourages you to listen attentively enough – in order to hear at last. I wish you to hear.