LibGuides: Ukrainian Music: Public Audio & Media

Suggestions for Further Listening

This page collects publicly available published and crowdsourced song lists, YouTube videos, and playlists.

If you're particularly interested in the Ukrainian folk music and folklore, check out the Polyphony Project linked below. It contains a rich collection of source recordings, lyrics, and resources for further study.

To browse videos by genre, click through our box on selected music and music videos to stream below!

Polyphony Project
The mission of the Polyphony Project is to explore, preserve and present the living musical folklore of Ukrainian villages. In addition to recording the intangible cultural treasures of the Ukrainian peasantry using state-of-the-art technology, their priority is to make this heritage of unparalleled value accessible to contemporary society. Having accumulated over centuries, this legacy is finally available online in an organised form.

Song and Resource Lists

Ukrainian Music YouTube Channel
The Ukrainian Music Channel is a volunteer effort to bring listener attention to the tremendous achievements of Ukrainian professional musicians, primarily in the field of classical music. It is a celebration of Ukrainian people and culture. The channel is organized into playlists by genre (Art Song, Orchestral Music, Chamber Music, Piano Music, Concertos, Sacred and Choral Music, Operas) and also by composer.
Listen to these 7 Ukrainian composers to discover the country’s rich cultural heritage
Colorado Public Radio has put together an introduction to Ukrainian classical composers with an accompanying collection of freely available videos and playlists.
Music from Ukraine: A Collaborative Portrait Gallery in March 2022
Musicology Now facilitated this collaborative portrait gallery, inviting scholars of Ukrainian music and musicians and scholars from Ukraine to shape brief reflections on a musician or musical ensemble on their minds over the last two weeks. What emerges is a rich quilt of deeply personal writing that is not an encyclopedic introduction to Ukrainian music, but an evocation of Ukraine’s longstanding, dynamic, and multifaceted musical life.
Learn about Ukraine's resilience and its history with Russia through these 4 songs
These tracks tell the story of Ukraine’s resilience in a folk song, a pop hit, a hip-hop ode to feminism and a techno dance jam.
The soul of Ukraine: TOP-20 Ukrainian folk songs, which each of us must know

Music & Music Videos to Stream

DakhaBrakha: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (April 2015)

Set List: "Sho Z-Pod Duba" 0:00 "Torokh" 3:43 "Divka-Marusechka" 8:07

Polyphony Project: Моя ти, голубко, йди сядь біля мене (Moya ty, holubko, ydy syadʹ bilya mene)

Performers: Bila Pavlina Pavlivna (1959), Dmytrenko Oleksandra Semenivna (1936), Labunsʹka Nadiya Yevhenivna (1948), Nesterenko Sofiya Fedorivna (1951), Popova Mariya Fedorivna (1952), Skopetsʹka Zinayida Savivna (1953), Voloshyna Hanna Volodymyrivna (1959), Zabudsʹka Nadiya Vasylivna (1946)

Polyphony Project: Остання путь, остання путь (Ostannya putʹ, ostannya putʹ, ostannyaya doroha)

Performers: Ivakhnenko Vira Pavlivna (1949), Kolisnyk Antonina Ivanivna (1944), Kurylo Tetiana Stepanivna (1949), Kuteiko Olha Kharytonivna (1943), Nerozia Tetiana Markivna (1939), Savchenko Kateryna Yakivna (1941), Smilyk Kateryna Semenivna (1944), Verbychka Nadiya Ivanivna (1949)