completion and orchestration of Glière's violin concerto (1956). He composed film scores for such films as Karmelyuk (1931), Ivan (1932, with Yuliy Meitus), Taras Shevchenko (1951), (1956, with Mykola Kolessa), and (1959). Symphonies Lyatoshynsky's symphonies "reflect the stresses of the period of their composition". It has been suggested by the music writer Gregor Tassie that his First Symphony (19181919), is the earliest symphony to be composed in Ukraine after Maksym Berezovsky. More tuneful and Scriabinesque in comparison with his four other symphonies, it was written as his graduation composition at a time when he had become influenced by the music of Scriabin and Richard Wagner. It was conducted in 1923 by Glière. The First Symphony is described in the 1999 edition of The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs as "a well-crafted, confident score" that "abounds in contrapuntal elaboration and abundant orchestral rhetoric". A vision of the war similar to that in Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 5 was expressed in the symphony. The reflective second movement is balanced by a finale that is, according to the music historian Ferrucio Tammaro, "not only dynamic, but even heroic, in close conformity with the tastes of emerging Soviet symphonism". The music for the Second Symphony (19351936) can be interpreted as depicting images of the reality of Soviet life, often using atonality. Written in the conventional three-movement form, the symphony is full of contrasting moods and dramatic contrasts. This expansive, romantic symphony was censored by the authorities and was not heard until 1964. The bellicose Third Symphony (19511954), with its combative first movement, has been compared with Shostakovich better-known Symphony No. 7, but other movements, such as the start of the second movement, have a personal and original lyricism and imaginative orchestration, such as at the end of the work, when a folk song (first heard in the opening movement) returns accompanied by brass and bells. The longest and perhaps his most popular symphony, it is as lyrical-sounding as the First, but less derivative and more assured. According to The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, the Third Symphony "tries hard to be a good Soviet symphony"; the confident-sounding finale of the work was designed to help the work acquire political acceptability. The last two symphonies by Lyatoshynsky are completely different from their predecessors—the composer Valentyn Silvestrov, who studied under Lyatoshynsky, recalled that when writing his last two symphonies, Lyatoshynsky "seemed to belong to another planet".