Lyatoshynsky - Concert Etude Rondo

Concert Etude Rondo (1967)

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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• rachmaninov
• medtner
• stanchinsky

[rugby52732]

OMG!

[Lukecash12]

So much angst, and then a surprising dash of good natured delicacy. A very good composition :)

[Starbirdy9999]

@akoryanii It's beautiful because it's a different kind of beauty. A modern, 20th century beauty. Ik it's hard for some people to find and recognize the pure beauty in works like these, but those people who make comments like "beautiful" can see it.

[MrDemetrio135]

Very modern and electric!

[wetuadjlv]

I wonder, does anyone else find this interpretation a bit too subjective? Stretching the notation is fine, but it doesn't seem like he's following the composer's ideas very well.

[Strefanasha]

fascinating. but it is in no way random key bashing. the idiom is much like the next step beyond rachmaninov, it seems to me, with tonality even looser. but the general style is very romantic, as seen through the eyes of the 20th century.

a very interesting piece

[somnynightin78]

@akoryanii Lmfao, i do get where you are coming from but not every bit is horrid, i found that there were a few moments of lyricism and others in which you describe as "mashing" are where the tone clusters appear. I don't like tone clusters unless they are put into context of motivic activity like what Bartok would have done. Is this my favorite of 20th century musc, no. But it's not completely abhorring in my opinion.

[somnynightin78]

@akoryanii That comment makes no sense.

[prokosh06]

awesome



[fyrexianoff]

@akoryanii They just seem to have more tolerance then you man ;)

[FrancoLaBraca]

2:10 was seizurifically awesome (is that a word? well it is now!)

[chutdigadut]

1st 6 bars.... 0____0 da FUCK?!