Ukrainian composers

[AnotherSpin]

Very nice! The superb Liatoshynsky quintet already has a very good recording on Naxos, but maybe this one will be even better! And Barvinsky is completely unknown to me.

I keep hoping that, with the welcome recent interest in Ukrainian composers, some enterprising record label will embark on a cycle of Dmitri Klebanov's 9(!) symphonies and other orchestral/concertante works. The Chandos CD of some of his chamber works that was released a few years ago was quite a discovery, and his Symphony No. 1 Babi Yar (written before Shostakovich 13!) can be found on YouTube in pretty decent sound. It's a powerful work, if less overtly tragic than the Shostakovich (not a bad thing in my book ).

Thank you for the information. For centuries, Ukrainian culture in Ukraine was banned, suppressed, and persecuted. Instead, we were forced to accept something foreign and false, filled with a hateful ideology.

Now there's finally a chance to change that — maybe not everything is lost. It starts with the language: our children and grandchildren speak Ukrainian with ease. For me, it's not so simple, but I keep trying.

[Roy Bland]

isaak Yakovich Berkovich (born December 28, 1902, Kiev, Ukraine – died January 5, 1972, Kiev, Ukraine) was a Soviet composer, pianist and teacher. He was a member of the National Union of Ukrainian Composers. Being the author of teaching aids School of Piano Playing, Berkovich made a significant contribution to piano pedagogy. Isaak Berkovich devoted all his life to music, more than one generation of musicians studied on his teaching aids.

[pjme]

Good work from Modesto!

[Roy Bland]

Zhanna Kolodub passed away last summer IMHO she and her husband Levko were interesting composers

[AnotherSpin]

Good work from Modesto!

Fans of Shostakovich might be surprised: another Soviet composer, Dmytro Klebanov, wrote a symphony about the Babi Yar massacre back in 1945.

It was played in Kharkiv and Kyiv in the late 1940s, many years before Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 and before Yevtushenko's poem even existed.