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Vladas Jakubenas - Chamber and Instrumental Music | Toccata Classics TOCC0013

Vladas Jakubenas - Chamber and Instrumental Music

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0013

Barcode: 5060113440136

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st October 2012

Contents

Artists

Kasparas Uinskas (piano)
Vilnius String Quartet
Kaskados Piano Trio
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Donatas Katkus

Works

Jakubenas, Vladas

Melody-Legend for violin and piano
Pictures (2) for piano, op.2
Prelude and Triple Fugue for strings
Serenade for cello and piano
String Quartet, op.4

Artists

Kasparas Uinskas (piano)
Vilnius String Quartet
Kaskados Piano Trio
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Donatas Katkus

About

Vladas Jakubėnas (1904-76) was one of the major cultural figures in pre-World War II Lithuania: he was a prominent composer, critic, teacher and musical activist. After the Second World War he was one of the many Baltic composers exiled to the USA, in his instance Chicago.

As a student of Schreker in Berlin in 1928-32, he initially wrote in a neo-Classical style - as most of the works on this CD attest - and was nicknamed ‘the Lithuanian Hindemith‘.

Back home in the mid-1930s he began to compose in a late-Romantic, gently modernist idiom, tinged with the influence of Lithuanian folk-music.

This is the first recording of the music on this CD.

The artists on this CD are some of the most prominent Lithuanian musicians, from the iconic Vilnius String Quartet, founded in 1965, via the Kaskados Piano Trio, another landmark group, founded in 1997, to the gifted pianist Kasparas Uinskas, one of the most gifted young Lithuanian music active today, and the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, founded by its conductor Donatas Katkus in 1994 and one of the stars in the Lithuanian musical firmament.

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