(Guitar)
29.09.1938–25.03.2012
Performer, composer, musicologist
Shevchenko’s repertoire as a performer includes European music of the XIII–XXI centuries, Flamenco music, antique music, oriental music, his own compositions. He played more than 100 programmes, including:
Author’s programmes
1 “My thoughts”
2 “Master and guitar”
3 “Touching”
4 “Contra viento”
5 “Guitar Odyssey”
6 “Lorcada” ( a programme dedicated to F.G. Lorca)
7 “Odessa promenade concert”
8 “Concert of concerts”
9 “Flamenco 2000”
10 “Flamenco fiesta”
Programmes
11 “Guitar Odessica”
12 “Guitar spiritual canticles”
13 “Music from antiquity to the present times”
14 “Villa Lobos’ guitar”
15 Music at candle light
16 Repercussions of Hellas (antique music)
17 Music of Hellas
18 Bach and modernity
19 The cycle “Anthology of the guitar” consisting of a number of concerts:
- a) Antiquity and Middle Ages
- b) Renaissance
- c) Baroque
- d) Classicism
- e) Romanticism
- f) xx century
- g) Avant-garde in guitar music.
- The cycle “Geography of the guitar” consisting of:
- a) the guitar of Spain
- b) the guitar of Italy
- c) the guitar of France
- d) the guitar of Germany
- e) the guitar of England
- f) the guitar of Ukraine, Poland, Russia
- g) the guitar and ethnography.
21 Nights in the gardens of Alcasar
22 “And again Moscow-Odessa”
23 Anthology of flamenco
24 Guitar: East – West
25 “Flower suite”
26 “Guitar fantasy”(the evolution of the genre)
27 Genealogy of the guitar
28 Guitar hit parade
29 Guitar puzzle
30 Interpretation of dreams
31 Musical labyrinth
32 Moonlight
33 Range of sonatas ( Brascionello’s sonatas)
34 Harmony of spheres
35 On the strings of life
36 Spring songs in autumn and other programmes
Shevchenko as a composer:
- Four concerts for guitar and chamber orchestra:
Concerto grosso(2004)
for guitar, oboe, and chamber orchestra
Concerto Flamenco(2005)
for guitar, oboe, castanets, and chamber orchestra
Alegria
Granadina
Verdiales
Odessan promenade concert (2007)
for guitar, clarinet and chamber orchestra
1) A walk along Deribasovskaya street
2) Moldavanka and Peresyp
3) Repercussions of Langeron
4) Humour festival
Ukrainian concert
(part 1 “The boat sails” — a caprice on Lysenko theme, 2010)
for guitar, flute and chamber orchestra
- F.G. Lorca’s dawns, cantata for soloists, choir, guitar and orchestra
- Defeat at sea ( symphonic poem)
- F. G. Lorca’s balcony ( vocal cycle to Lorca’s poetry)
- A handful of sand ( vocal cycle to the poetry of Takuboku)
- Polyphonic notebook ( preludes and fugues for guitar)
- Suites for guitar:
Ukrainian suite “My thoughts”
“Lorcada”
“Odessica”
“De natura solaris”
“Cymmerian suite”
- Three sonatas for guitar
- Two sonatinas for guitar
- Three poetic legends for guitar
- Transformations (experimental music)
- Touching(cycle)
- Fountains of Bakhchisaray palace:
“The tears fountain” and “Golden fountain”
- Breeze (Burlesque serenade for flute and guitar)
- Prelude, fugue and allegro to the theme “Bach” and “Passion according to Sebastian”
- Tres grados ad Parnassum, guitar album for children
- “Nikitik’s music”, guitar album for children
- “Three points” for guitar and chamber orchestra
- “Odessa mosaic” for guitar and ensemble of instruments
- “Mirage”, “Craonera”, “Bessarabian fantasy”, Carpathian rhapsody “Wind from mountain pastures”, “Fountains of Rome”, “The sail of Odysseus” , Lament of Cadiz”, “Alcacerena” , “The thread of Ariadne” , “Peruvian Dance”, etc. Separate pieces for guitar, music for theatre, cinema and TV.
- Vocal cycle to the poem “Tabula Rasa” by V.E. Nevmity
- “Niagara Falls”, “Jewish Rhapsody” — pieces for guitar
- Ricercar for violin and cello
- “Podolian girl” (Ukrainian tango for violin, guitar and castanets)
- Fantasy based on F.Leigh’s “Love story”(and other compositions)
- Ukrainian suite Bach-Shevchenko.
The full stop in the manuscript was put on 15.03.2012
Shevchenko as a musicologist
- “Indomitable flamenco games”, essay 1975
- “Indomitable flamenco games” , article 1980
- “Flamenco guitar”, flamenco school 1988
- “Encyclopedia breve de flamenco”, article 1989
- “Hilo de Ariadna” , FAF “Jerez de la Frontera, article 1991
- Rudimentos de flamencologia en las “Escenas Andaluzas” de Serafin E.Calderon, article 1992
- “The testament of Orpheus”, essay 1996
- “On certain fundamental possibilities of comprehension and artistic mastering of antique music”, article 1997
- “The ABC of Tauromachy”, essay with parallel illustrations (Graphics by A. Shevchenko) 1997
- Estructuras musicales del cante y toque flamenco, article 1996
- “Musical traditions of Kiev Rus in the process of transformation of Eastern Slavic musical culture”, article 1997
- “The European flamenco phenomenon of the classical tradition of the East”, article 1988
- “The live heritage of antiquity” article 1988
- “Migration processes and the formation of the Andalusian flamenco culture”, article 1999
- “On the harmony of spheres”, article 1999
- “The cyclic development of the sound musical system”, article 1999
- “Harmonia mundi (the development of the sound musical system in the context of the general process of comprehension of the world)”, article 2000
- “The music of Hellas”, monograph 2001
- “The ecology of sound”, article 2003
- “In the beginning was the future” (Spatial and temporal transformations in certain musical structures), article 2005
- “On the crossroads of musical traditions”, article 2006
- The formation of the guitar in the context of the general process of development of musical culture”, article 2008
- “Sound concept in cosmology” from the “Harmony of spheres” to “string theory”, article 2009
- “Ukrainian duma mode”, article 2010
- “The algorithm of love in B-flat major”, article 2011
- “The music of ancient Spain”, monograph , unfinished
As an artist, A. Shevchenko had his graphics and paintings presented at exhibitions in Odessa, Poland, Czechia, Spain. His works are present in private collection in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Spain, Czechia, Germany.
Four personal exhibitions of Shevchenko’s art works took place in Odessa after the master’s demise (“Apartment” gallery, Literary Museum, Ukrainian cultural centre and Odessa Modern Art museum, 2012–2014).
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