Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis - Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 13 "The Artist Kazimir Malevich": I. Kazimir
02. Symphony No. 13 "The Artist Kazimir Malevich": II. The Two Squares, Black and Red
03. Symphony No. 13 "The Artist Kazimir Malevich": III. The Revolution
04. Symphony No. 14 "The Scream"

This fifth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two large canvases inspired by painters: Symphony No. 13 (2014) by the revolutionary Polish-Ukrainian Soviet artist Kazimir Malevich, and No. 14 (2015) by Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream. Bruk may seem to write in a kind of stream of consciousness, but his works are subtly bound together through a network of motifs and details of scoring. Even so, the orchestral writing in both pieces is wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance, with hints here and there of Prokofiev and Szymanowski.

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