Composer: Fridrich Bruk
Orchestra: Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Imants Resnis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0657
Release: 2023
Size: 331 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 15, ‘Reflections’
01. I. Reflection 1
02. II. Reflection 2
03. III. Reflection 3
Symphony No. 16, ‘The River Dnieper’
04. I. The Interrupted Melody
05. II. The Story of Chernobyl
06. III. The River Dnieper
07. IV. Storm and Enlightenment
This fourth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two earlier works – from when Bruk was merely in his late seventies. His Symphonies Nos. 15 and 16 – both predicated on Bruk’s concern for the environment – inhabit the sound-world that has become familiar from his more recent symphonies: almost a stream of consciousness expressed through wildly inventive orchestral writing in a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance.