Borys Hmyrya, State Honoured Academical Choir of Ukraine DUMKA. Borys Hmyrya and "Dumka" Choir.

Collaboration of Borys Hmyrya and "Dumka" choir managed by Pavlo Muravsky did not last long – for about three years. But it is now that Pavlo Muravsky has already achieved such a deserved age that it is not possible to request ideally perfect job performance from him. While then – at the end of the 1960s – "Dumka" choir was virtually the best choral collective in the territory of the entire USSR, and Muravsky was in the bloom of his strength. Borys Hmyrya at that moment had also already, as they say, achieved his best. His voice was known not only at home, but also in the whole world – however, this absolutely did not influence the habit of working with material attentively, even captiously, and striving for virtually perfect results. Actually, you have the opportunity to estimate the perfectionism of Hmyrya and Muravsky – the content of this disc is made up of concert recordings of the abovementioned period, as well as several studio recordings. Sure, the quality of concert recordings of that time cannot be compared with the modern one – unfortunately. But even in spite of that fact, the pinpoint mastery of both the choir and Borys Hmyrya – cannot but amaze...