Martinaitis - Seasons and Serenades: Works for String Orchestra
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Label: Ondine
Cat No: ODE13982
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th January 2022
Contents
Works
ArtizarraBirds of Eden
Chant de la Lointaine
Serenade for Mistress Europe
Three M'art Comedy Seasons
Valse triste
Artists
Ruta Lipinaitye (violin)Asta Kriksciunaite (soprano)
Daumantas Slipkus (harpsichord, piano)
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Modestas BarkauskasWorks
ArtizarraBirds of Eden
Chant de la Lointaine
Serenade for Mistress Europe
Three M'art Comedy Seasons
Valse triste
Artists
Ruta Lipinaitye (violin)Asta Kriksciunaite (soprano)
Daumantas Slipkus (harpsichord, piano)
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Modestas BarkauskasAbout
For keen fans of music within the Baltic states, Algirdas Martinaitis is quite known for his works dancing between a serene beauty and sincerity before collapsing into an almost sarcastic nihilism, a style which he describes as ‘new animality’. Within this style, much like Henryk Górecki’s ‘circus pieces’, sarcasm, irony, and subversion of expectations become central to the music making. His early chamber works, including Birds of Eden, demonstrated his unique voice and saw him grouped with the neo-romantic movement within Lithuania. However, never wanting to be predictable or stuck in an idiom, he later shifted to a newer style.
The Three M’art Comedy Seasons for solo violin and strings make numerous musical references, not least to the famous Four Seasons of Vivaldi. Artizarra for string orchestra and harpsichord has an energised and bouncy nature which is comparable to J.S. Bach’s concerti for multiple harpsichords or the latter movement of Górecki’s concerto for the instrument. The album also includes two recent songs to lyrics by Oscar (Vladislas de Lubicz) Milosz (1877–1939), the famous Lithuanian French-language poet.
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