Lyatoshynsky - Reflections (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4)

Four pieces from the Reflections Op. 16 (1925):

I. "Maestoso e con fermezza"
II. "Velutato assai"
III. "Tempestoso"
IV. "Disperato e lugubre

Borys Demenko, piano

Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968) was a major Ukrainian composer noted for teaching Valentin Silvestrov and founding a Kiev Avant-Garde school later in the 20th-century. His output is prolific and his style, like most of his contemporaries, was chameleon-like due to the shifting aesthetics in the U.S.S.R., from the experimental freedom allowed in the early 1920's to the restricted idiom demanded in the 40's and 50's. Lyatoshynsky studied with Glière and his earliest compositions are primarily solo piano works. While he was aligned with the avant-garde movement of the 1920s, his thematicism and piano-writing suggest the Romanticism of middle Scriabin and Feinberg rather than the complexities and atonal language of Roslavets and Lourié. Larry Sitsky calls Lyatoshynsky the "Passionate Slav" and the appellation is fitting as these fiery and lyrical piano works demonstrate.

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• liatoshinsky
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• feinberg
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• shostakovich
• rachmaninov
• medtner
• stanchinsky

[myaskovsky2002]

Please I have to know the interpreter, he's so good! I bought the cd but this version is much better! (can I get this on cd?)

Curious

Martin

[Hexameron]

If you look at the video description, you'll observe that Borys Demenko is the performer...

I'm curious what CD you bought if not Demenko. Ryabchikova also recorded some Lyato piano pieces, but I like Demenko better.

[mahler151]

No.1 sounds strikingly similar to his 4th symphony....

[f1f1s]

That sounds like Scriabin on LSD. No, really, many ideas have been borrowed from his poems and then atonalized or chromatized.

[mossfitz]

Why does he play the triplets as 1,pause,3,4? Its not as though this particular music is in danger of flowing TOO smoothly...

[Kastanienzweig]

Great music!

[SchmuyleHauksendorf]

Thank you very much, I only knew the haunting Come di lontananza. On the whole it's a wonderful work!

[bartje11]

Awesomely crazy music! No. 2 is a gem.