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Vytautas Barkauskas - Orchestral Works, Viola Concerto | Avie AV2163

Vytautas Barkauskas - Orchestral Works, Viola Concerto

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Label: Avie

Cat No: AV2163

Barcode: 0822252216325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th September 2008

Contents

Artists

Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Robertas Servenikas
Juozas Domarkas

Works

Barkauskas, Vytautas

Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, op.63
Konzertstuck fur Orchester no.2, op.103
Sun for symphony orchestra, op.69
Symphony no.5, op.81

Artists

Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Robertas Servenikas
Juozas Domarkas

About

World premiere recordings of the works of Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas (b.1961), including his Viola Concerto dedicated to and performed by Yuri Bashmet.

"I was born in Independent Lithuania, and I want to live and die in a free country rather than the Soviet Union.” With such powerful and optimistic words, the Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas became the voice during the 1990s for the ideals and hopes in his country, still under the flag of the then collapsing Soviet Empire. It was with such a spirit that the composer translated into music the turmoil and expectation that a whole nation shared.

Apart from the Viola Concerto, other works here include the symphonic picture 'Sun', Symphony No.5, and Konzertstück No.2, all composed between 1981 and the mid 1990s.

The music of Barkauskas speaks about the spiritual world of the individual and the artist in his struggle with the conditions of all human fate. Enriched with the composer’s ability to express rhythmic and harmonic patterns that are a complex mixture of his own traditional musical vocabulary and the new more western feel of classical and modern styles of composition, these works reflect the hope of his homeland as it comes closer to its eventual independence.

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