Ukrainian Piano Quintets
) | Label: NCL Catalog: 8579098 Format: COMPACT DISC Suprun, Kateryna; Pivnenko, Bogdana; Pogoretskyi, Yurii; Starodub, Iryna; Yaropud, TarasBoris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of a new generation of Ukrainian composers that emerged in the 1920s. His expansively conceived Ukrainian Quintet finds him at his most emotionally overt, with a heartfelt Lento e tranquillo second movement. Dedicated to Lyatoshynsky, Valentin Silvestrov’s Piano Quintet dates from the start of his Modernist odyssey of the 1960s, while Victoria Poleva’s withdrawn and secretive Simurgh-quintet is part of a style that embraces spiritual themes and musical simplicity defined as ‘sacred minimalism’.  Price: $21.98 |