Борис Гмыря - “Не пой, красавица, при мне ты песен Грузии печальной...“ (С. Рахманинов).

Boris Gmyria (1903-1969) While many Soviet-era singers (i.e. Mark Reizen, Maxim Mikhailov, etc.) have become fairly well-familiar to record collectors, other artists of formidable reputation in their native land remain unknown to most Western listeners. Such is the case of Ukrainian bass-baritone Boris Gmyria, who was born in the town of Lebedin in 1903 and spent most of his career far from the major musical centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg. As a young man he studied at the Kharkov Construction