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Abstract
This project involves the recording and musical analysis of selected 20th-centuryUkrainian piano works by Ihor Shamo, Sergei Bortkiewicz, and Borys Liatoshynsky. The
selected repertoire includes Shamo’s Ukrainian Suite and Hutsulian Watercolors,
Lyatoshynsky’s Three Preludes on Themes of Taras Shevchenko Op. 38, Five Preludes Op. 44,
and Bortkiewicz’s Crimean Sketches. The research explores the composers’ stylistic diversity,
approach to form, harmony, and texture, while also reflecting on the performance challenges and
interpretive decisions involved. Drawing on scholarly literature, cultural context, and lived
experience, the project presents this music not only as historical repertoire, but as a living,
emotionally resonant art form.