Bruk / Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra- Orchestral Music 3 (CD)
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 it's 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 color and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in it's profligate abundance.
Tracklist:
- Symphony No. 22 "In The Ocean": I. Death Of The Dolphins. Severo
- Symphony No. 22 "In The Ocean": II. Sounds Of Hope. Pensieroso
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": I. Soikkola. Sforzo
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": II. Hevaa. Sostenuto
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": III. Serepetta. Risoluto
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 it's 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 color and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in it's profligate abundance.
Tracklist:
- Symphony No. 22 "In The Ocean": I. Death Of The Dolphins. Severo
- Symphony No. 22 "In The Ocean": II. Sounds Of Hope. Pensieroso
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": I. Soikkola. Sforzo
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": II. Hevaa. Sostenuto
- Symphony No. 23 "In The Ingrian Mode": III. Serepetta. Risoluto