Creation of the World. Chamber Music

The "Creation of the World" program unites four distinct musical worlds of the 20th century — deeply personal, expressive, and surprisingly vivid in their sound.

Gustav Mahler’s "Songs of a Wayfarer" is one of the most poignant musical stories about loneliness, loss, and gradual self-reconciliation. In Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement, this cycle sounds especially intimate and raw: every intonation transforms into a deeply personal experience.

Bohuslav Martinů’s Nonet No. 2, written toward the end of the composer's life, continues this internal dialogue in a different emotional dimension. It is music of luminous tranquility and a subtle dialogue between instruments, where chamber intimacy meets a near-orchestral fullness of sound.

Yevhen Stankovych’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 opens an entirely different space — fluid, contrasting, and rich with timbral shifts and sudden emotional transitions. Finally, Darius Milhaud’s "The Creation of the World" (La création du monde) blends modernist freedom, jazz rhythms, and theatrical imagery, turning the concert into a living movement of sound and energy.

This program is about music as a means of creating a world: external and internal, collective and profoundly personal.