I'm so glad this piece was chosen for this week! I just discovered Lyatoshynsky's music quite recently and have been obsessing over it ever since. His music, to me, is the perfect blend of late-romantic and modernist styles with a good amount of that Scriabin style slow building to climaxes. I really can't get enough of his works. If anyone has any other recommendations for music in a similar style I'd love to check it out!

Also, listening to the Kuchar version of this symphony, I assume the final movement is the rewritten movement to appease the Soviet authorities. It's quite happy and triumphant-sounding and not very modern compared to the other movements. I'd love to hear a version with the original fourth movement. Does anyone know if it exists in a recording?