Alexey Shor is an American composer who was born and raised in Ukraine. His seven-movement neoclassical Travel Notebook, Suite for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 offers personal impressions of places he has visited, with highly accessible music that is harmonically traditional and melodic. Shor’s Violin Concerto No. 4, composed during the Covid pandemic, is a restless, passionate, and romantic work, displaying the composer’s trademark lyricism. The two works are performed by the Kyiv Virtuosi, a youthful orchestra (average age of 30) that unites talented musicians from all over Ukraine, most of whom are competition winners. Anna Ulaieva, a leading young Ukrainian-Austrian pianist, is the soloist for Travel Notebook. Belgian violinist of Russian-Ukrainian heritage Marc Bouchkov, winner of the Montreal International Competition and silver medalist at the Tchaikovsky International Competition, is featured in the violin concerto.