Oksana Lyniv © Oleg Pavliuchenkov
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra / The National Choir of Ukraine »Dumka« / Lyniv
Sunday
2
June
2024
20:00
Großer Saal
Performers
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The National Choir of Ukraine »Dumka«, Chor
Alexander Schulz, Tenor
Pavlo Hunka, Bassbariton, Narrator
Oksana Lyniv, Dirigentin
Programme
Jevhen Stankovych
Kaddisch-Requiem »Babyn Jar«
Note
Ein gemeinsames Projekt von Wiener Festwochen und Wiener Konzerthaus
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
A Ukrainian requiem
In 1941, over 33,000 Jews were murdered by German National Socialists in the Babyn Yar ravine in what is now the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. The identity of countless victims is still unknown today. In memory of this, the Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych wrote the Kaddish Requiem »Babyn Yar« for narrator, soloists, choir and orchestra, which was premiered at the National Opera in Kiev in 2016. With the performance of this work as part of the Vienna Festival, the internationally renowned Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, together with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, spans an arc from the past to the present and shows that remembrance is a work on the future.