Fridrich Bruk - Orchestral Music Vol.1 | Toccata Classics TOCC0455

Fridrich Bruk - Orchestral Music Vol.1

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0455

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd February 2018

Contents

Artists

Gertruda Jerjomenko (piano)
Anda Eglite (kokle)
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Maris Kupcs

Works

Bruk, Fridrich

Symphony no.17 'Joy of Life'
Symphony no.18 'Daugavpils'

Artists

Gertruda Jerjomenko (piano)
Anda Eglite (kokle)
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Maris Kupcs

About

Fridrich Bruk – born in Kharkov in 1937 and a Finnish resident since 1974 – made his name as a composer of tangos. But the heart of his music lies in a series of eighteen symphonies, which have a strong narrative element, some reflecting Jewish themes, others inspired by Karelia and Finland. Symphony no.17, Joy of Life (which Bruk also calls a ‘Concerto-Symphony for Orchestra and Piano’),has an autobiographical programme charting, in abstract terms, Bruk’s surmounting of the obstacles fate put in his path. Symphony no.18 takes as its starting point a Latvian-Jewish folksong: it is premised on the deportation of his grandparents from their Latvian home, in an anti-Semitic campaign by Tsarist Russia that Bruk sees as a kind of prologue to the Holocaust.

Gertruda Jerjomenko (b. 1989) is a Latvian pianist and harpsichordist. She made her solo debut in a C.P.E. Bach concerto with the Baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum Riga under the guidance of Māris Kupčs and has since appeared at concerts and festivals as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician in Latvia and abroad.

Anda Eglīte, kokle, is active as a performer in Latvia and abroad both as a solo musician and as a member of several chamber orchestras.

Māris Kupčs started his musical career as a choral conductor, later focusing on orchestra and opera repertoire. As a founder of the Baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum Riga, he is one of the few conductors who can direct Baroque operas and other early-music works from the harpsichord, conduct more contemporary large-scale symphonic or opera repertoire with a baton and play chamber-music programmes as a sought-after continuo player.

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