Bruk / Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra- Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (CD)
This fifth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two large canvases inspired by painters: Symphony No. 13 by the revolutionary Soviet artist Kazimir Malevich, and No. 14 by Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream. Bruk may seem to write in a kind of stream of consciousness, but his works are subtly bound together through a network of motifs and details of scoring. Even so, the orchestral writing in both pieces is wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in it's profligate abundance, with hints here and there of Prokofiev and Szymanowski.
Tracklist:
- Symphony No. 13, The Artist Kazimir Malevich~I. Kazimir
- Symphony No. 13, The Artist Kazimir Malevich~II. The Two Squares, Black and Red
- Symphony No. 14, The Scream
This fifth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two large canvases inspired by painters: Symphony No. 13 by the revolutionary Soviet artist Kazimir Malevich, and No. 14 by Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream. Bruk may seem to write in a kind of stream of consciousness, but his works are subtly bound together through a network of motifs and details of scoring. Even so, the orchestral writing in both pieces is wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in it's profligate abundance, with hints here and there of Prokofiev and Szymanowski.
Tracklist:
- Symphony No. 13, The Artist Kazimir Malevich~I. Kazimir
- Symphony No. 13, The Artist Kazimir Malevich~II. The Two Squares, Black and Red
- Symphony No. 14, The Scream