Lyatoshynsky: Romances for Low Voice & Piano

Featuring

Alexander Blok
Vassily Savenko
Boris Mikolayovich Lyatoshinsky

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Composer Biography

Borys Lyatoshynsky, a Ukrainian composer, grew up during a short-lived 'Ukrainian Renaissance' of writers, artists, musicians, choreographers, and philosophers.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lyatoshynsky aimed to create a musical partner for the poetry in his songs, rather than simply music with words, with the melody shaped by the sound and sense of the words.

Composer Biography

Lyatoshynsky studied law at the University of Kiev but also joined the composition class of Reinhold Glière, who became his lifelong friend and mentor.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in January 2009 in The Academy of Choral Arts, Moscow, with Alexander Volkov as producer-engineer.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The piano parts in Lyatoshynsky's romances are not mere accompaniments but atmospheric evocations of the imagery in the poems.

Performer Biography

Alexander Blok, the pianist on this recording, is related to the influential Russian poet-playwright Alexander Alexandrovich Blok.

Performer Biography

Vassily Savenko, the bass on this recording, completed his vocal studies at the Moscow Conservatory and won both the Mussorgsky and Lysenko Competitions.