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"Unsurpassed choral music from Ukraine. On Friday evening (14.08.98) а live
broadcast from Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen was presented to radio listeners.
But they could not see everything that was happening on the stage, neither could
they see the enthusiasm of the audience that stood up, applauding and waving
handkerchiefs.
The choir performed with discipline and accepted applauds in а very artistic
manner. Some choirs do not pay particular attention to this. The "Kyiv" Chamber
Choir impressed us with its fresh and talented recreation of traditions that
are fairly distant from our choral singing, but are appealing when they are
voiced so beautifully".
("Roskilde Dagblad"; August 17, 1998; Knud Cornelius)
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"In its concert of sacred music on Sunday evening at Carnegie
Hall, the Kiev Chamber Choir offered evidence that the revival of Ukrainian
music has been proceeding apace. The choir has specialized in liturgical works,
including the study and interpretation of ancient manuscripts written in long-forgotten
regional forms of musical notation.
Hobdych drew from it а disciplined, well-blended sound that was appealingly
varied in colour and flexible when the music demanded broad dynamics".
("The New York Times"; December 23, 1997; Allan Kozinn)
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"In musical parlance а chamber ensemble conjures an image of delicacy and
lightness and intricate textures rather than blocks of sound. The Kyiv Chamber
Choir (from Kiev, Ukraine), which performed at the George Mason University Center
for the Arts on Saturday, throws those images into а cocked hat.
The group has only 21 singers, but what singers they are - big, marvellously
focused voices, the kind that might easily hold their own on the opera stage
but without the kind of operatic vibrato that can make an ensemble rattle. They
can sing wonderfully clean unisons and the basses have low E's to die for."
("The Washington Post"; December 22, 1997; Joan Reinthaler)
"Today it is hard to imagine Ukrainian culture without "Kyiv Chamber Choir". It is appropriate that we greet the XXI century together with this group, since the future of Ukrainian art is with it".
("Ukraina moloda"; December 15, 1995; N. Semenenko)