RECEPTION OF SERHIY BORTKEVYCH'S CREATIVITY IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to trace the specifics of national reception in the contemporary work of Serhiy Bortkevych (1877–1952) – a composer, pianist and teacher.To realize the set goal a set of methods was used, including theoretical-analytical, musicological, historical, comparative and inductive-deductive methods. It was found that the creativity of S. Bortkevych began to enter the Ukrainian musical context only at the beginning of the new millennium, when the real renaissance of the artist’s work began. It aroused considerable interest among Ukrainian performers, conductors, and research scientists. Ukrainian Bortkevych-science includes a significant number of studies of various types, from scientific articles to candidate theses (O. Cherednychenko, T. Yakubov, E.Levkulych, etc.). Conductor Mykola Sukach, who performed all his symphonic opuses and wrote the book “Serhiy Bortkevich: Score of Life. Artistic – documentary mosaic” (2018) made a great contribution to the popularization of the composer's symphonic work in the Motherland. Before the revival of music S. Bortkevych, the well-known Ukrainian pianist, Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykola Suk, who in 2000 became the first performer of the composer's First Piano Concerto in Ukraine. Among the leading performers of his creative heritage, pianists Yevgen Levkulych, Pavlо Hintov, Vyacheslav Zubkov, Antony Baryshevsky, Dmytro Onyshchenko, violinist Temur Yakubov, and others should be singled out. In 2017 P. Hintov recorded a disc with solo piano works by S.Bortkevych. In 2021 an international online project “Christmas with Bortkevych” was held, in which researchers and performers from Ukraine, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and the USA took part. “Melosvit” music publishing house made a significant contribution to the popularization of the composer's piano heritage.