Dmytro Kokoshynskyy - Music for These Troubled Times : Dmytro Kokoshynskyy - Import CD

Credits:Dmytro Kokoshynskyy Description:[The Charm of Early Elizabethan Keyboard Music, Brought to Life with a Delicate Touch] This album focuses on keyboard works from the late Elizabethan era through the early 17th century—a period when British music reached the pinnacle of refinement—and allows listeners to fully appreciate their true value through exquisite period instrument reproductions based on surviving models crafted by the leading workshops of the time. Performer Dmytro Kokoshynsky is a Ukrainian native of Kyiv who studied under Francesco Corti in Basel and was mentored by Beatrice Martin and Olga Pasichenko. He has won numerous awards at world-renowned early music competitions in Milan, Leipzig, and Bruges. His natural, supple touch yields compelling interpretations whether on the Tewes model—which is sharp yet full of warmth—or the Ruckels model, which shines with deep resonance and overwhelming beauty. Sharygin, the composer of “Hora,” who seems to have reinterpreted the melancholy that permeates the British music of yesteryear in a contemporary style by utilizing the early music-specific timbres unique to the harpsichord, is a composer and filmmaker who moved from Ukraine to the Netherlands. One of the charms of this album is the sonic world created by Kokoshynsky’s delicate performance, which blends so seamlessly into the musical world of 400 years ago that, were it not pointed out, one might not realize this piece alone is a modern composition. Naxos Japan