Yuri Bashmet, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Robertas Šervenikas, Juozas Domarkas - Sun (2008)
Artist: Yuri Bashmet, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Robertas Šervenikas, Juozas Domarkas
Title: Sun
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: Avie
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:56
Total Size: 346 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: Sun
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: Avie
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:15:56
Total Size: 346 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Sun for symphony orchestra, op. 69 (Vitautas Barkauskas)
1 Sun, for symphony orchestra, Op. 69: Sun, for Symphony Orchestra, Op. 69 08:41
Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra, op. 63 (Vitautas Barkauskas)
2 Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra, Op. 63: I. Cadenza 09:07
3 Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra, Op. 63: II. Largo 09:05
4 Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra, Op. 63: III. Coda 05:57
Symphony No. 5, op. 81 (Vitautas Barkauskas)
5 Symphony No. 5, Op. 81 09:52
6 Symphony No. 5, Op. 81: II 05:40
7 Symphony No. 5, Op. 81: III 06:59
8 Symphony No. 5, Op. 81: IV 07:50
9 Symphony No. 5, Op. 81 04:30
Konzertstück für Orchester No. 2, op. 103 (Vitautas Barkauskas)
10 Konzertstück für orchester, No. 2, Op. 103 08:15
Performers:
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Robertas Šervenikas
Juozas Domarkas
World premiere recordings of the works of Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas including his Viola Concerto dedicated to and performed by Yuri Bashmet.
“I was born in Independent Lithuania, and I want to live and die in a free country rather than the Soviet Union.” With such powerful and optimistic words, the Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas became the voice during the 1990’s for the ideals and hopes in his country, still under the flag of the then collapsing Soviet Empire. It was with such a spirit that the composer translated into music the turmoil and expectation that a whole nation shared. ‘Sun’ marks the awaited return of Barkauskas to AVIE, this time featuring acclaimed viola player Yuri Bashmet to whom Barkaskas dedicated his Viola Concerto. Other works here include the symphonic picture Sun, Symphony No. 5, and Konzertstück No. 2, all composed between 1981 and the mid 1990’s. The music of Barkauskas speaks about the spiritual world of the individual and the artist in his struggle with the conditions of all human fate. Enriched with the composer’s ability to express rhythmic and harmonic patterns that are a complex mixture of his own traditional musical vocabulary and the new more western feel of classical and modern styles of composition, these works reflect the hope of the his homeland as it comes closer to its eventual independence.
Vytautas Barkaskas was born in Lithuania in 1931 and is Professor Of Composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music where he has taught since 1961.
“I was born in Independent Lithuania, and I want to live and die in a free country rather than the Soviet Union.” With such powerful and optimistic words, the Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas became the voice during the 1990’s for the ideals and hopes in his country, still under the flag of the then collapsing Soviet Empire. It was with such a spirit that the composer translated into music the turmoil and expectation that a whole nation shared. ‘Sun’ marks the awaited return of Barkauskas to AVIE, this time featuring acclaimed viola player Yuri Bashmet to whom Barkaskas dedicated his Viola Concerto. Other works here include the symphonic picture Sun, Symphony No. 5, and Konzertstück No. 2, all composed between 1981 and the mid 1990’s. The music of Barkauskas speaks about the spiritual world of the individual and the artist in his struggle with the conditions of all human fate. Enriched with the composer’s ability to express rhythmic and harmonic patterns that are a complex mixture of his own traditional musical vocabulary and the new more western feel of classical and modern styles of composition, these works reflect the hope of the his homeland as it comes closer to its eventual independence.
Vytautas Barkaskas was born in Lithuania in 1931 and is Professor Of Composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music where he has taught since 1961.
