Daumantas Kirilauskas - Gruodis: Piano Works (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor "Patetico": I. Allegro moderato
02. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor "Patetico": II. Adagio espressivo
03. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor "Patetico": III. Scherzo. Vivace, energico
04. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor "Patetico": IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
05. Morning Song
06. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Minor: I. Allegro moderato
07. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Minor: II. Adagio
08. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Minor: III. Finale. Allegro
09. Bells
10. Variations in B Flat Major: Theme. Andante
11. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 1, Moderato
12. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 2, Allegro
13. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 3, Allegro agitato
14. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 4, Andante
15. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 5, Largo
16. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 6, Adagio
17. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 7, Tempo di mazurka
18. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 8, Lento
19. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 9, Allegro moderato
20. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 10, Allegro
21. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 11, Vivace
22. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 12, Alla polacca
23. Variations in B Flat Major: Var. 13, Allegro non troppo, energico
24. Variations in B Flat Major: Fuga

The music and teaching of Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948) laid the foundations for a national school of composition in Lithuania in the first half of the twentieth century, with his style absorbing influences from both east and west – Rachmaninov, Skryabin, Chopin, Debussy, Reger, Strauss – and from Lithuanian folk-music. Though the piano works heard here were composed within a span of only eight years, they show considerable variety, from the poised to the passionate and powerful, all expressed with full-bodied late-Romantic virtuosity and verve.

Daumantas Kirilauskas, piano

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