Paths of Love

The "Paths of Love" program explores a feeling that is rarely simple. Love appears as a lace of intertwined threads, where doubt, anticipation, joy, and pain coexist and complement one another. The core of this concert's musical dramaturgy lies in the idea of tangled paths that ultimately lead to true intimacy.

The protagonists of these musical works wander, hesitate, and retrace their steps, but it is within this movement that the ability to recognize true feeling is born. The music does not hide contradictions: it allows love to be both painful and life-giving, fragile and resilient, full of doubt yet always reaching for the light.

This program is a sincere story of an experience familiar to everyone. Despite the winding paths and broken threads, people find each other again and again — and it is this hope, inherent in the very nature of love, that the music of this evening conveys.

Program:

• Edward Elgar — Mot d’amour (Word of Love) from Two Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 13 No. 1

• Edward Elgar — Salut d’amour (Love's Greeting) for Violin and Piano, Op. 12

• Luigi Arditi — Il bacio (The Kiss)

• Jacques Offenbach — Barcarolle ("Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour") from the opera The Tales of Hoffmann

• Georges Bizet — Habanera from the opera Carmen

• Francis Poulenc — Les chemins de l’amour (The Paths of Love)

• Jules Massenet — Non, tu n’as pas fini d’aimer (No, you have not finished loving)

• Nestor Androsyuk — If I Knew How to Embroider (Yakby ya vmila vyshyvat)

• Ihor Shamo — Song of Happiness (Pisnya pro shchastya)

• Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky — Unforgettable Waltz (Nezabutniy vals)

• Ottorino Respighi — Romanza (Romance), Aubade (Morning Serenade) from Two Pieces for Violin and Piano

• Fritz Kreisler — Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) for Violin and Piano

Performers:

• Ivanna Plish (soprano)

• Tetiana Havrylenko (mezzo-soprano)

• Mykhailo Bilych (violin)

• Andrii Vasin (piano)