Features of the Piano Cycle of Bogdana Filtz «music Freskas»

In the article, the author examines the piano cycle «Musical frescoes» by the outstanding Ukrainian composer Bohdana Filts. Ukrainian piano music in the context of world instrumental music has long gained a strong position. In the best works of outstanding Ukrainian composers, progressive achievements of Western European musical art were successfully combined with traditions of a purely national character. The professional piano literature of Ukrainian authors is based on the connection with folk musical creativity, so the most popular works of Ukrainian artists reflect one of the main features of the musical and creative process of modern times – the continuation of the accumulation of folklore traditions of national musical art. Bohdana Mykhailivna Filts is an extremely bright figure in the Ukrainian musical culture of today. Composer, teacher, honored artist of Ukraine, doctor of art history, laureate of Mykola Lysenko prize. The creativity of B. Filts continues the stylistic direction initiated in the composer's heritage of L. Revutskyi, V. Barvinskyi, N. Nyzhankivskyi, and M. Kolessa. B. Filts created music imbued with the modern pulse of life, it is serious, deep, at the same time modern, youthful, active and artistically accomplished. The musical palette of the composer is distinguished by romantic inspiration, expressive melody, lyrical worldview, sincerity in the reproduction of human feelings, her music is filled with deep philosophical understanding, historical parallels between the heroics of ancient and modern generations of Ukrainians, deep intimate experiences, carries optimism and positive emotions, it is original, permeated through and through with Ukrainian folk elements, captivates with the depth of musical thought, brilliant form, warmth, patriotism and sincerity. The figurative and structural construction of the cycle «Musical frescoes» is sophisticated and rich. The composer uses bright notes, textural features, a wide range of piano registers, rhythmic and harmonic inflections. The piano cycle «Musical frescoes» by Bohdana Filts is a popular work on the concert stage, which will contribute to the formation of aesthetic tastes and creative abilities of young musicians.