Herman Galynin: Complete Works For Strings
Label: TOCCATA CLASSICS Catalog: TOCC0514 Format: CD Kharitonova, Kseniia; Latysheva, Anastasia; Bencic, Anastasia; Scherbakova, Anna; Nikiforchin, Ivan; Minaeva, Arina; Academy of Russian MusicThe intensity with which the Russian composer Herman Galynin (1922–66) lived his short life is reflected in the extraordinarily high voltage of his music. In spite of a difficult start in life – he was an orphan – his instinctive musicality combined with the impulsiveness of his personality to make him one of the best known of Soviet composers while he was a student. Although mental illness put an early end to his meteoric career, the wild, freewheeling energy of his compositions – as witness these five works for strings – leave little doubt that Galynin would have been one of the major musical voices of the second half of the twentieth century; as it is, what he did achieve is remarkable. Price: $27.98 |