Poetry Cafe 152: Ukraine 1

Ukraine (1): Cossacks through Byron, Liszt, and Janacek

‘War Criminal/ Vlad-the-Invader/ Put in Prison’ Ovid: from ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’ Serhii Plokhy: ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’ (2016) Mussorgsky/ Ravel: ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’, from ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ Anne Applebaum: ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ (2017) Nikolai Gogol: ‘Taras Bulba’ Janacek: ‘Taras Bulba’ – Parts 1, 2, 3 (symphonic poem) Voltaire: ‘L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre’ Liszt: ‘Mazeppa’ (symphonic poem) Lord Byron: ‘Mazeppa’ (1819) Pushkin: ‘Where shall we shift the line of forts?’ ‘Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished’ (Ukrainian National Anthem) Gemeinsames Statement des Verbands Freier Rundfunk Oesterreich