Bohdana Filts’s vocal chamber works of the late-life period: artistic design and performance implementation

Abstract

The article considers the features of artistic and imaginative thinking of Bohdana Filts (1932-2021) in the vocal chamber work of late-life creativity. The author highlights the performing features of the solos chosen for analysis based on poetic texts by L. Ukrainka, I. Franko, L. Kostenko, and H. Kanych. An attentive and careful attitude to the requirements of performing practice, skilful use of all the possibilities of the voice, and its timbre-expressive palette are prominent in Filts’s solos. The composer masterfully creates the piano accompaniment’s part, which always plays an essential figurative and semantic role. In the analyzed works of the late-life period, there is a direct connection with the vocal chamber compositions of earlier stages of the artist’s work through the ideological and aesthetic orientation of the idea, features of intonation thinking of the composer, her harmonic language, and unique style of vocal writing with characteristic genre preferences.