Phillip Sear plays the first piece from a 1925 set of 5 'Miniaturen über ukrainische Volkslieder' (Miniatures based on Ukrainian Folk Songs). They are by the Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and musicologist, Vasyl Barvinsky (Василь Олександрович Барвінський, 1888-1963).
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Barvinsky was born in Ternopil, in western Ukraine, and studied at the Lviv Conservatory, and later in Prague. From 1915 to 1948 he directed the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music in Lviv. However, in 1948 he fell foul of the Soviet authorities, and was jailed for 10 years, and some of his music was destroyed by the NKVD (he tried to reconstruct some of it upon his release). A music school in Drohobych, near Lviv, is named after him. You can read more about his life and works here: t.ly/SiGW

These folk song arrangements are much more lightly scored than those by Petyrek, which I have featured on this channel.

My thumbnail features a detail from 'The Cradle of Pearl' by William Henry Margetson (1893).
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Played by Phillip Sear
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