Herman Galynin - Piano Music Vol.1 | Toccata Classics TOCC0076

Herman Galynin - Piano Music Vol.1

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0076

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 30th June 2008

Contents

Works

Galynin
Sonata Triad (1939–41, rev. 1963)

Galynin
Suite (1945)

Galynin
Four Preludes (c. 1939)

Galynin
Three Pieces from The Tamer Tamed (1944)

Galynin
At the Zoo (1948/65)

Artists

Olga Solovieva (piano)

Works

Galynin
Sonata Triad (1939–41, rev. 1963)

Galynin
Suite (1945)

Galynin
Four Preludes (c. 1939)

Galynin
Three Pieces from The Tamer Tamed (1944)

Galynin
At the Zoo (1948/65)

Artists

Olga Solovieva (piano)

About

The Russian composer Herman Galynin (1922–66) studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Shostakovich and Myaskovsky, producing a flow of brilliant compositions while still a student. They fuse influences from his teachers – Shostakovich’s wit and irony and Myaskovsky’s lyrical introspection – with Prokofiev’s rhythmic energy, to produce a language very much his own.

Although he was dogged by ill fortune (he was an orphan), ill health and the hostile political climate of the Stalin regime, Galynin’s music expresses a defiant will to live with verve and humour.

His musical gifts were held in the highest esteem by Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Myaskovsky, his teachers at the Moscow Conservatory and many of Galynin’s freshest works date from his student years at the Conservatory.

Considered to be one of the casualties of Stalin’s post-war cultural purges, Galynin was deeply affected by the dismissal of Shostakovich for harbouring ‘formalist’ tendencies. As a former pupil of Shostakovich, he was reassigned to a different teacher and asked to compose works to demonstrate his ‘re-education’ after having been ‘contaminated’ by Shostakovich.

What remains most compelling about Galynin’s music is the highly personal quality of his lyricism, his ability to expand his material in fresh and fertile directions and a phenomenal rhythmic verve. All this is in evidence in his music for solo piano, of which this recording offers the first instalment of a comprehensive survey.

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