Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava - Zibuokle Martinaityte: ALETHEIA - Choral Works (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Martinaityte ALETHEIA (2022)
02. Martinaityte Chant de Voyelles (Incantation of Vowels) (2018)
03. Martinaityte Ululations (2023)
04. Martinaityte The Blue of Distance (Tolumos melynumas) (2010)

The third Ondine album of music by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973), based in New York, but Lithuanian through her roots, presents her choral works performed by the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava. Martinaityte’s most recent choral works are deeply connected to world events. Despite avoiding language, the four works featured herein are all extremely expressive and deeply emotional. Martinaitytė began composing the first one featured on this album, Aletheia (2022), just as Russian troops had crossed into Ukraine. Her Ululations (2023) is as an audible, ritualistic expression of mourning written in the same way ‘owls are awake at night ululating in the forest, the mourning women whose men of the family are at war fighting and dying or who have lost their loved ones, are wailing their sorrows out loud’ (Žibuokle Martinaitytė).

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