Boris Tishchenko (1939 - 2010)

[Maestro267]

It has been put on Spotify now, btw.

[relm1]

A lightbulb just went off for me as I was listening to Tishchenko's Violin Concerto No. 1 for the first time just now.  First, I really enjoyed it.  I think he was only 19 when he composed it and it was a very fine work.  What I found unexpected was the shadow of Shostakovich doesn't loom so large but rather post-Soviet futurist music, modernism, and expressionism is a larger influence.  I get he's early in his career but I'm familiar with his later works more than his early works so this was a bit revelatory to me.  He's more an heir to Mosolov than to Shostakovich.  But you can clearly see elements of Shostakovich, but I hear this more as elements of modernism that Shostakovich embraced.  Think pre-Pravda Shostakovich of 20's and 30's rather than mid 30's through 50's. 

I believe Soviet 20th century music has a significant musicological and historical place and is very rich in history and substance.  I thought somewhat simplistically that the second half of 20th century soviet music was dominated by Shostakovich and his imitators but that's really not the case, it's far more nuanced and frankly interesting.  One characteristic it seems to share is a nostalgia or longing for tradition even if that means a late 20th century composer like Tishchenko looks back to the Soviet avant-garde because he does so by bringing many other influences some of which are very traditional and some more experimental.  A fascinating composer and I highly recommend both his violin concertos - they are probably my favorite of his works.  They are not at all too far forward (anyone who likes Mosolov's Iron Foundry won't find anything too far in these works) but they are truly deserved to be better known as does this composer.  I regret not appreciating him more when he was alive.

Violin Concerto No. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_jW4pou4A
Violin Concerto No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVpIubQugw

[Karl Henning]

A lightbulb just went off for me as I was listening to Tishchenko's Violin Concerto No. 1 for the first time just now.  First, I really enjoyed it.  I think he was only 19 when he composed it and it was a very fine work.  What I found unexpected was the shadow of Shostakovich doesn't loom so large but rather post-Soviet futurist music, modernism, and expressionism is a larger influence.  I get he's early in his career but I'm familiar with his later works more than his early works so this was a bit revelatory to me.  He's more an heir to Mosolov than to Shostakovich.  But you can clearly see elements of Shostakovich, but I hear this more as elements of modernism that Shostakovich embraced.  Think pre-Pravda Shostakovich of 20's and 30's rather than mid 30's through 50's. 

I believe Soviet 20th century music has a significant musicological and historical place and is very rich in history and substance.  I thought somewhat simplistically that the second half of 20th century soviet music was dominated by Shostakovich and his imitators but that's really not the case, it's far more nuanced and frankly interesting.  One characteristic it seems to share is a nostalgia or longing for tradition even if that means a late 20th century composer like Tishchenko looks back to the Soviet avant-garde because he does so by bringing many other influences some of which are very traditional and some more experimental.  A fascinating composer and I highly recommend both his violin concertos - they are probably my favorite of his works.  They are not at all too far forward (anyone who likes Mosolov's Iron Foundry won't find anything too far in these works) but they are truly deserved to be better known as does this composer.  I regret not appreciating him more when he was alive.

Violin Concerto No. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_jW4pou4A
Violin Concerto No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVpIubQugw

Nice!

[relm1]

What are your thoughts of Dante Symphonies?  I accidently was listening to it not knowing what it was and found it surprisingly beautiful.  How to think of it.  Symphonies?  Tone poems?  Ballets?  Check out the material around 45:30 minutes in.  It's gorgeous for contemporary music.  This could almost be Tchaikovsky!

[Roy Bland]

On April 24, to mark the anniversary of the St. Petersburg composer-"sixties" Boris Tishchenko, a creative meeting and presentation of the memoirs of the composer's widow Irina Donskaya-Tishchenko and a music album with romances by Boris Ivanovich based on poems by Anna Akhmatova will take place at the One and a Half Room museum by Joseph Brodsky. The album also included a romance based on the words of Joseph Brodsky, in whose vocal part Tishchenko brilliantly reproduced in notes the manner of his beloved friend reading poetry.
The creative meeting and presentation on April 24, at 12:30, will be attended by Honored Artist of Russia Irina Donskaya-Tishchenko, Rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Rimsky-Korsakov Alexey Vasiliev, conductor and composer Anton Lubchenko, music producer of the Balt-Music publishing house Oleg Grabko.

Honored Artist of Russia Irina Donskaya-Tishchenko, a famous harpist and professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, was Boris Tishchenko's companion and muse, faithful companion and wife for 33 years. Irina Anatolyevna was the first listener of his works and edited the harp parts in all his works. A large number of works by Boris Ivanovich are dedicated to her, including the Concerto for Harp and Orchestra and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Symphony Concertante). All this makes her memoirs "The Running of Time of Boris Tishchenko" interesting both as deeply personal memories of a prominent representative of the Leningrad-St. Petersburg cultural elite, and as evidence of a certain historical period, and, of course, from a musicological point of view.

[Symphonic Addict]

This new recording must be part of the celebration of his anniversary I guess:

[Roy Bland]

This new recording must be part of the celebration of his anniversary I guess:

it doesn't seems same item
https://bomba-piter.ru/shop/product/tishchenko-boris-beg-vremeni-iuliia-kuchina-patrichelli-anton-lubchenko


"... Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko wrote the vocal cycle "The Running of Time" in 2003, in his last decade - this is one of his later masterpieces. And all the more symbolic is this appeal to the work of Anna Akhmatova, the love for which he carried throughout his life: back in 1966 year, the composer wrote the famous "Requiem" based on its text.

[Symphonic Addict]

I meant part of the celebration in a broader sense, not necessarily related to what you posted.