Christian themes in the works of Yuri Ischenko

Abstract

Purpose of the article is to study Christian motives and themes in the works of
contemporary Ukrainian composer Yuriy Ishchenko. The basis of the research methodology is the
integrated approach, historical-biographical, analytical method, which make it possible to
determine the main stages of artistic formation of the composer. A scientific novelty. For the first
time, the formation and development of Christian themes at different stages of the creative way of
Yuriy Ishchenko was analyzed. Conclusions. Christian ideas, gradually emerging in the work of
Yuriy Ishchenko in the 1970s, gradually reach their heights since the 2000s. The religious tradition,
concentrated in moral ideas, is an imaginative area of the works of the author, acts as a valuable
impulse that brings down artistic author's search for an understanding of the spiritual and aesthetic
values of the Orthodox tradition and Ukrainian culture. The ideas of repentance, crying, silence,
silence, prayer, Favorsky light, transfiguration, panegyric, praiseful motives become the main
stylistic and cognitive constants in choral, chamber-instrumental and symphonic compositions by
the composer of a mature period of creativity.
Key words: creativity of composer Yuriy Ishchenko, Christian themes, psalms, symphonic
mysteries