Ukrainian romances and art songs
Ukrainian-American mezzo-soprano Renata Babak
Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka
Ukrainian romances on poetry of Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka 
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Website about Ukrainian-American mezzo-soprano Renata Babak

 Ukrainian art song "White seagulls" by Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda, performes by Renata Babak
 
Ukrainian art song, music by Platon Maiboroda, words by Mykhailo Stelmakh, performes by Renata Babak
 Ukrainian art song on poetry of Ukrainian poet Dmytro Lutsenko, music by Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda, performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian traditional romance on poetry of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko

Ukrainian romance on poetry of Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka, music by Ukrainian composer Lesya Dychko

Ukrainian poet Andriy Malyshko

Ukrainian art song Rushnyk, music by Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda, words by Ukrainian poet Andriy Malyshko, performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian traditional romance performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko

Ukrainian romance on poetry of Taras Shevchenko,

music by Mykola Lysenko, performed by Renata Babak

Ukrainian composer Denys Sichynskyi

Ukrainian romance on poetry of Ivan Franko, music by Denys Sichynskyi, performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Petrenko

Ukrainian romance on poetry of Mykhailo Petrenko, music by Vladyslav Zaremba, performes by Renata Babak

art song by Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda,

words by Mykhailo Tkach, performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian romance "Asters" by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko on poetry of Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Oles', performes by Renata Babak

Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda

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                                                            Ukrainian romance (lieder)

 

Ukrainian romance is usually the setting of romantic or patriotic Ukrainian poems to music,

 

beginning first with Ukrainian baroque songs which some of them were composed by Ivan Mazepa and Hryhoriy Skovoroda and later during 19th century with Ukrainian composers

Mykola Lysenko, Yakiv Stepovyi, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Dynys Sichinskyi and others.
 Many Ukrainian romances were composed by Ukrainian composers on poetry of Ukrainian poets Taras
 Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Oles' and on poetry of many other Ukrainian poets. Also there are many Ukrainian traditional romances which were composed by Ukrainian people ( Ukrainian traditional romances.)

Ukrainian romances and art songs on poetry of Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Oles'  and many other Ukrainian poets

Ukrainian art song "White seagulls" by Platon Maiboroda performes by Renata Babak and Andriy Dobryanskyi

Ukrainian composer Anatoliy Kos-Anatolskyi

Ukrainian romance "Nightindale's romance", music and words by Ukrainian composer Anatoliy Kos-Anatolskyi, performes by Renata Babak

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The Forth Mykola Lysenko International music Competition

 
(November 15-25, 2012, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Ukrainian composer Platon Maiboroda

Ukrainian poet Andriy Malyshko