Alexey Shmurak — Bildungsroman (2024) for 4 violins

Alexey Shmurak (*1986) — Bildungsroman (2024) for 4 violins Олексій Шмурак — Роман виховання (2024) для 4 скрипок "Bildungsroman" (2024) was written on the commission of an ensemble of 4 violinists Akіm Zvarych, Ivan Vasilyuk, Mykhaylo Pavlov and Kateryna Bereznykova. The title of the work is the genre of "educational novel". A typical plot for this genre: a young person, full of ideals and will, gradually enters adulthood, encountering disappointments and compromises. Examples of "educational novels": Voltaire's "Candide", Stendhal's "The Red and the Black", Dickens' "Great Expectations", Rowling's "Harry Potter". Shmurak's work is built on distancing and deconstructing genre features, but preserving the main principle of gradually replacing naive stubbornness with mature compromise. Performed by Akim Zvarych, Ivan Vasilyuk, Mykhaylo Pavlov and Kateryna Bereznykova