In the Goodmesh Salon

​ Goodmesh and Classical NOW! present two Ukrainian musicians who have won major competitions. Pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi, winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, shares the stage with violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, who in 2024 won the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. As part of their international tour, we have booked them for an exclusive performance. 

Their programme is a composition in itself. They open their recital with an early violin sonata with which Beethoven astonished his contemporaries. With surprising contrasts and drama, he gave his own personal twist to the classical style of Haydn and Mozart. Almost two centuries later, Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov looked back on the classical style in Post Scriptum, which seems to come from another dimension. A piece that sounds like a dream, in which fragments of music by Mozart and Beethoven seem to float by. 
 
Yevhen Stankovich was inspired by folk music. In his triptych Na Verhovyni, ‘In the Highlands’, he incorporated elements from the music of the Hutsuls, who cherish their own language and culture in the Carpathian mountains, with impressive ritual music. In his iconic Violin Sonata in G major, Maurice Ravel evokes the blues that conquered the Parisian clubs a hundred years ago. Ravel spent more than five years refining his sonata: a perfect masterpiece. 

Antonii Baryshevskyi plays the Goodmesh Steinway grand piano and Dmytro Udovychenko plays the Huggins Stradivarius, which was loaned to him after he won the competition. Antonii Baryshevskyi is artist in residence at Classical NOW!, where his performances have consistently impressed the audience.