Tishchenko

The style origins of Boris Tishchenko’s piano music are extremely diversified. A keen ear will identify in it echoes of works by Shostakovich and Prokofiev, Hindemith and Bartok… Anyway, its artistic space is so forceful and attractive that “a stranger’s word” too gets a new, original sound in it. It retains its identifiability in all genres, among which are variations, cycles of pieces, and sonatas. The sonatas are the most tangible part of the composer’s heritage; he addressed this genre throughout his life. Also, noticeable are parallels with another, and no less important domain, which is symphony. The progressive drama of conflicts, …….

Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko completed the Second Symphony in 1964. By that time, he had already written several opuses that made him widely known, such as First Cello Concerto and First Piano Concerto, the ballet The Twelve, quartets and piano sonatas, and Inventions for Organ.
The Second Symphony is a milestone composition in the composer’s heritage; this is evident if we look at its concept, and the scope of artistic instruments. Working on the symphony, Tishchenko ….

Opinion has it that Boris Tishchenko is the heir to Shostakovich and since he was a favourite pupil of Shostakovich (how many favourite pupils he must have had!) there must be a link to the older composer. I do not believe Tishchenko shares much of Shostakovich’s sound world except in the sarcastic, jaunty themes as typified by the first movement. Tishchenko’s music is his own, quite distinctive, and well worth getting to know…..

John Phillips @ musicweb-international.com

This enticing album of sonatas by Ravel, Enescu, Ysaÿe and Prokofiev emerged from violinist Diana Tishchenko’s victory at the 2018 Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition. Born in Ukraine, and trained in Kiev and Berlin, she has been noted by The Strad for her "power to mesmerize the audience with her large gesture and strong personality”. Her musical partnership with the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári is extraordinarily close and potent. In the words of the French online journal Toute la musique, they are “not two interpreters playing together, but a true musical entity, an artistic fusion … They played as if each note were being created in real time … deploying an infinitely large palette of colours and nuance – the possibilities were inexhaustible.”

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Boris Tishchenko's music style and composing manner shows him to be a typical representative of the Leningrad composers' school. He was very much influenced by music of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Galina Ustvolskaya, turning these influences in his own way. He tried to use some experimental and modernist ideas like twelve-tone or aleatoric techniques, but was much more attached to the native traditions of his homeland. He demonstrated a …….

Boris Tishchenko's music style and composing manner shows him to be a typical representative of the Leningrad composers' school. He was very much influenced by music of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Galina Ustvolskaya, turning these influences in his own way. He tried to use some experimental and modernist ideas like twelve-tone or aleatoric techniques, but was much more attached to the native traditions of his homeland. He demonstrated a …….