Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Māris Kupčs – Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Māris Kupčs – Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:46 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Classical
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This third instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two works of astonishing vitality for a composer in his eighties. Both of them have social undercurrents: Symphony No. 22 is driven by ecological concerns about the pollution of the world’s oceans, and No. 23 takes its material from folk-melodies of the Ingrians, a vanishing ethnic group on the Finnish- Russian border. The orchestral writing in both pieces is passionate and wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance.

Tracklist:

01. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs – Bruk: Symphony No. 22 “In the Ocean”: I. Death of the Dolphins. Severo (18:17)
02. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs – Bruk: Symphony No. 22 “In the Ocean”: II. Sounds of Hope. Pensieroso (14:43)
03. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs – Bruk: Symphony No. 23 “In the Ingrian Mode”: I. Soikkola. Sforzo (13:42)
04. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs – Bruk: Symphony No. 23 “In the Ingrian Mode”: II. Hevaa. Sostenuto (11:25)
05. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs – Bruk: Symphony No. 23 “In the Ingrian Mode”: III. Serepetta. Risoluto (08:37)

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