Bogdana Pivnenko (violin), Taras Yaropud (violin), Kateryna Suprun (viola), Yurii Pogoretskyi (cello), Iryna Starodub (piano)

Lyatoshinsky: Ukrainian Quintet, Op. 42
Silvestrov: Piano Quintet (To Boris Lyatoshynsky)
Poleva: Simurgh-Quintet

Boris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of a new generation of Ukrainian composers that emerged in the 1920s. His expansively conceived Ukrainian Quintet finds him at his most emotionally overt, with a heartfelt Lento e tranquillo second movement. Dedicated to Lyatoshynsky, Valentin Silvestrov’s Piano Quintet dates from the start of his Modernist odyssey of the 1960s, while Victoria Poleva’s withdrawn and secretive Simurgh-quintet is part of a style that embraces spiritual themes and musical simplicity defined as ‘sacred minimalism’.