Ukrainian National Anthem for SATB & Symphony Orchestra

An arrangement of the Ukrainian National Anthem for SATB & Symphony Orchestra,

The video below was performed by the Orchestre National de France Cristian Macelaru, conductor with Baritone Andrei Bondarenko.

The Ukrainian national anthem can be traced back to one of the parties of the Ukrainian ethnographer Pavlo Chubynskyi that occurred during the autumn of 1862. Scholars think that the Polish national song "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" (lit. 'Poland is not yet lost'), which dates back to 1797 and later became the national anthem of Poland and the Polish Legions, also influenced Chubynskyi's lyrics. "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" was popular among the nations of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that were at that time fighting for their independence; the January Uprising started a few months after Chubynskyi wrote his lyrics. According to a memoirist who was present, Chubynskyi wrote the lyrics spontaneously after listening to Serbian students singing Svetozar Miletić's "Srpska pesma" (lit. 'Serbian song') during a gathering of Serbian and Ukrainian students in a Kyiv apartment.