Zinoviy Shtokalko - Recordings

Recordings

In his repertoire Shtokalko had a huge reserve of historic songs and dumy (sung epic poems), many of which were recorded during the life of the bandurist. Of the more professional recordings are the dumy: "Marusia Bohuslavka" which was released in 1952 by the SURMA company in New York. After the death of Shtokalko, the renown collector of Ukrainian recordings Stepan Maksymiuk found the recordings of two more dumy in the archives of M. Surmach, the tapes of "About Oleksiy Popovych" and "About the escape of three brothers from Oziv". Maksymiuk also discovered a recording of the duma "Kozak Holota" which was done live by an amateur collector during a concert performance of Shtokalko. These three dumy were after editing together with "Marusia Bohuslavka" appeared as a record album sponsored by Myron Surmach.

Death brought a halt to the work of Zinovyj Shtokalko. He died 18 June 1968 at the age of 48. Many of his plans were unrealized during his lifetime. Recently his textbook for the bandura was published in both English and Ukrainian. A collection of Ukrainian songs arranged by Shtokalko has also been recently published in Ukraine. (All 3 publications were prepared for publication and edited by Dr. A. Horniatkevyc)