List of compositions by Borys Lyatoshynsky



This is an incomplete list of compositions by the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky.

Lyatoshynsky wrote a variety of works, including five symphonies, symphonic poems, and several shorter orchestral and vocal works, two operas, chamber music, and a number of works for solo piano. He wrote music with a modern European style and technique, skilfully combining it with Ukrainian folk music themes. His musical style later developed in a direction favoured by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which caused significant problems with Soviet critics of the time, and as a result Lyatoshynsky was accused of formalism and the creation of degenerative art.

Lyatoshynsky’s main works are his operas The Golden Ring and Shchors, the five symphonies, the Overture on Four Ukrainian Folk Themes (1926), the suites Taras Shevchenko (1952) and Romeo and Juliet (1955), the symphonic poem Grazhyna (1955), his "Slavic" concerto for piano and orchestra (1953), and the completion and orchestration of Reinhold Glière’s violin concerto (1956). He composed film scores for such films as Carmelite (film) (1931), Ivan (1932, with Yuliy Meitus), Taras Shevchenko (1951), Ivan Franko (film) (1956, with Mykola Kolessa), and Grigory Skovoroda (film) (1959). Many of his compositions were rarely or never performed during his lifetime.

Transcriptions

 * Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba (with L. Revutsky)
 * Lysenko's opera Aeneid.
 * Gliere's Violin Concerto (with K. G. Mostras)
 * Gliere's Comedians
 * Gliere's Shah-Senem
 * Gliere's ballet Red Poppy

Song cycles without an opus number

 * Songs after Shevchenko (including “Water flows into the blue sea” (Тече вода в синє море, ); 2 "The sun rises from behind the grove" (Із-за гаю сонце сходить, )). 1949–1951.
 * Two songs ("When the well shakes"; "How will you hear at night"). Lyrics by Franko.
 * Songs to texts by Shevchenko	(1 "A banner behind a banner" (За байракомбайрак, )); 2 "On the Dnieper Saga" (Над Днiпровою сагою, )).	1960.
 * Two Ukrainian folk songs	(“Oh, a quiet wind is blowing in the field” (Ой, у полі тихий вітер віє, )); “Oh, a long time ago”.	1934.
 * Songs for mixed choir accompanied by piano (1 "Thought about the Cossack Sophron" (Дума про козака Софрона, )); 2 "About Karmelyuk" (Про Кармелюка, )). 1932.

Individual songs with no opus number

 * “Airship” (Воздушный корабль, ).
 * "And in those small houses" (А у тих багачок, ).
 * "Bygone days” (Минувшие дни, ). 1931. Romance after Shelley.
 * “Haze” (Серпанок, ).	1919–1920. From a text by Balmont; also set in Russian.
 * "Heart of the Kobzar" (Серце Кобзаря, ).
 * “In the album of Caroline Janisz” (В альбом Кароліні Яниш, ).
 * “I walked in the crossroads” (У перетику ходила, ).
 * "I was a guest in your heart" (Гостював в твоєму серц, ). 1924.
 * "Oh, if my heart is cold" (Якби мені серце холодне, ). 1924. Words by Balmont.
 * “Sum of spring” (1919–1920). Весна грустит Vesna grustit
 * "Terrible is the cold of the evenings" (Жахливий холод вечорів, ). 1926.
 * Testament. 1939. Cantata after Shevtchenko.
 * “The grove turns green again” (Знову гай зазеленів, ). 1922–1924.
 * "The heart of the Kobzar" (Серце Кобзаря, ). 1964. Words by Valentin Bychko.
 * "The monk's mountain" (Чернеча гора, ). 1964. Words by Evgeny Fomin.
 * “There are brown eyes” (Єсть карії оч, ). 1927.	Text by Shevchenko.
 * “The silence and fragrance of sleeping flowers” (Тиша й пахощі квітів у дрімоті, ). 1922.
 * "The sorrow of spring" (Сум весни, ). 1919–1920.
 * “The sun” (Солнце, ). Words by Lermontov.


 * "Creeping, periwinkle".(Та стелись, стелись, барвиночку, )
 * "Glorious Way". 1939
 * “My dreams fade in solitude” (В’януть мрії мої в самоті, )
 * “Old and young” (Старий i молода, ).
 * "Our comrade-in-arms fell under the birch". 1950. Lyrics by Anatoly Sofronov.
 * "Silence, the fragrance of dormant flowers".
 * "The moon creeps across the sky".
 * "The sun rises over Siberia" (За Сибiром сонце сходить, ).
 * "The sun rises at the horizon", after Shevtshenko.
 * “Yesterday was Saturday night” (Вчора була суботонка, ).

Wind band

 * Solemn March (1931)
 * March for marching band (1932)
 * March to the Ukrainian folk tunes for marching band (1936)