Dnipro

There is pure magic in every old piano...so much music was played with so many hands across generations...I welcome my old new piano with excitement and religious holy like feelings...This piano short was inspired by my new lovely addition....

Hallet Davis circa 1915 ...

Sometime in times of hardship and trials those ones that most close and trusted will turn back on you....and this question 'Why ? ' will linger for so many years...time healing pain better with music...

Why ?... (Zrada)

Fall 2013 is the very special time for Ukraine and Europe...EU door starting barely to open for Ukraine under mafiosi like current prez and "family"....while Russia still refer this former colony as its own province...

 Barbarians of XX century choose Ukraine and its people as "cannon fodder" in their bloody games of both World War I and II ...for ideas and values that turns humans into the slaves of mighty state ...

 European Union will give Ukrainians peace and may be prosperity....and in return Ukraine will make much more peaceful Europe, insuring that resurection of Russian Impire will be just a pipe dream of old commy ...

Russia can only give misery,wars and slavery to its people and invaded lands as it was for the most of last 300 years in Ukraine.

Ukraine

It is up to all of us who is able to speak Ukrainian to promote and preserve the beauty of our spoken word...especially today when modern Sovoks wants to push Ukrainian again to the brink of extinction...back to the USSR.

Idea of this CD was very simple....just by best examples to show evident proof of great poetic genius of Oleksandr Oles' and his incredibly beautiful and melodic verses...He is #1 Ukrainian poet of  20th century....was completely banned during Soviet time in Ukraine....so many generations of Ukrainians never heard of them...

His responce to the ignorants and haters of Ukrainian was beautiful verse

 "Oh , my native word ,chained eagle ! "

( O slovo ridne orle skutuy ! )

If you able to understand a bit Ukrainian its truly absolute stunning lines....each word with meanings of many pages...and so beautifully crafted....

Diamonds of Ukraine (2003) Track 19 : Final word by O.Obriy; O.Oles'/1907; Piano finale (read more)

Renowned bandurist Halyna Menkush playing the Albeniz's Asturias on the Ukrainian bandura.  This is a bootleg recording given to me my her late great father in law, the legendary bandura virtuoso Petro Fedorovych Honcharenko.  Petro's son, who was left behind Soviet lines during World War 2 later met and married Halyna, whose father was a freedom fighter and died young, and her mother and step father spent countless years in the Soviet Gulag political prisoner labor camps, became a renown bandura virtuoso herself.

Halyna Menkush - Asturias

By joining enormous  piano spaces  of  SC I feel somewhat  like Avatar at the end of his space epic ...all this incredible and limitless beautiful piano tunes ... quite often is  giving me joyful thrills with  dependency  of addiction ...

For me piano always new and fresh...

 In  sharing my Piano with the World  I would like to add a bit of my heart  into worldwide delight of  the beautiful piano music...

"....Tune up your golden strings and bring your soul melody thread  into the stormy oceans  of this ever changing world ..."

Greatest Ukrainian Poet - O.Oles' , circa 1907 ?

( I strumin' vlasnoi dushi
Uluy v shumlyache more...)

