Nora Lūse, Jānis Ķepītis - Ķepītis: Piano Miniatures from the Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Snowflakes: I. A Little Cloud
02. Snowflakes: II. Flakes Fall
03. Snowflakes: III. Vortex
04. Snowflakes: IV. The Story of the Flake
05. Snowflakes: V. Christmas Tree Dream
06. Snowflakes: VI. Waltz
07. Snowflakes: VII. Thaw
08. Snowflakes: VIII. And Spring Again
09. Portraits: I. Andulis
10. Portraits: II. Elvīra
11. Portraits: III. Nanny
12. Portraits: IV. Vija
13. Portraits: V. Biruta
14. Portraits: VI. Niko
15. Mood-Paintings: I. Evening Song
16. Mood-Paintings: II. Anxiety
17. Mood-Paintings: III. Sadness
18. Mood-Paintings: IV. Delight
19. Mood-Paintings: V. Frolic
20. Mood-Paintings: VI. Laugh
21. Mood-Paintings: VII. Solace
22. Mood-Paintings "In the Meadows": I. A Ray of Sunshine
23. Mood-Paintings "In the Meadows": II. Butterfly and Boy
24. Mood-Paintings "In the Meadows": III. Youthful Delight
25. Mood-Paintings "In the Meadows": IV. The Black Cloud
26. Mood-Paintings "In the Meadows": V. After Rain
27. Impressions of an Evening:: I. Moderato
28. Impressions of an Evening:: II. Andante tranquillo
29. Impressions of an Evening:: III. In Movimento
30. Līgo Night: III. St John's Fire

The Latvian composer Jānis Ķepītis (1908–89) has a fairly low profile even in his home country, never mind beyond its borders. His output was nonetheless substantial, with no fewer than six symphonies to his name, ten concertos, a number of large-scale choral-orchestral pieces, countless songs and choruses and a voluminous body of chamber music – almost all of it unknown. Ķepītis was himself a gifted pianist, and his hundred or so compositions for piano show a predilection for the miniature. The works here, most of them discovered among his manuscripts, inhabit a world downstream from Skryabin and Rachmaninov, with a gentle hint of Debussy, an occasional wisp of Latvian folk-music,
and, here and there, just a hint of jazz.

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