Various Artists - Kacinskas: Chamber & Instrumental Music (2013)

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Title: Kacinskas: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 59:16 min
Total Size: 269 MB
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Tracklist:

01. I. Largo maestoso
02. II. Allegro moderato
03. III. Allegro con fuoco
04. IV. Andante
05. I. Andante grazioso
06. II. Allegretto
07. III. Adagio
08. IV. Allegro con fuoco
09. Chamber Fantasy for Flute, Piano and String Quartet
10. I. Andante quasi adagio
11. II. Intermezzo: Adagio
12. III. Finale (Fantazija): Allegro


The Lithuanian composer Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907-2005) is one of the lost radicals of twentieth-century music. He abandoned traditional syntax in favour of an atonal athematicism, whereby the music is in constant evolution, with freely pulsing rhythms and melodic lines that branch forward like tendrils. His lyrical but tightly woven Nonet was well received in the 1930s, but when Kačinskas fled Lithuania from the approaching Russians in 1944 he had to abandon almost all his scores. Only with the collapse of the Soviet empire could the work be reconstructed — and the composer return home in triumph.

Giedrius Gelgotas, flute
Arnoldas Gurinavičius, double-bass
Vilnius String Quartet, string quartet
St Christopher Quintet, wind quintet
Gabrielius Alekna, piano
Daumantas Kirilauskas, piano