Diptych "Songs without Words" for mixed choir a cappella, performed as part of the Kyiv Music Premieres 2025 festival at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine on April 26, 2025.

Artistic director - Dmytro Radуk, conductor - Vitaliі Mulіar.

A few words about the work.

"Song without Words" is the most democratic musical genre for communication and expression of feelings and emotions between people from different countries, speaking different languages, having different views on life, different traditions, age, gender and culture. But it is music, and it is the song that is able to successfully overcome these obstacles. That is why I turned to this genre. And to make my "address" broader and more comprehensive, I chose not just a soloist as my "instrument", but an entire mixed choir.

The first movement of the cycle "Songs without words" for a mixed choir a cappella is called "Lullaby of Angels". I wrote it under the deep impression of one specific event. On June 21, 2022, in Lviv, Ivanka Krypіakevych-Dymyd - the mother of the Ukrainian soldier Artemіі Dymyd, who died at the hands of the russian occupiers - sang a sweet lullaby to her son, accompanying him to his last journey during the funeral...

"Lullaby of Angels" is my personal "last lullaby" and my personal boundless gratitude to all our Ukrainian Heroes who gave their lives for the Independence of Ukraine in the fight against the russian aggressor.

The second movement of the cycle - "Dance of the Spring Wind" - a spectacular virtuoso work, which uses various techniques of musical "parlando". This is the music of hope, the music of Light, the music of Joy and our VICTORY, in which I am absolutely and without a doubt sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvG2I6yhQ_8