Composer: Jeronimas Kačinskas
Performer: Gabrielius Alekna, Daumantas Kirilauskas, Arnoldas Gurinavičius, Giedrius Gelgotas, Vilnius String Quartet, St Christopher Quintet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0169
Release: 2013
Size: 250 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Nonet for Woodwinds and Strings
01. I. Largo maestoso
02. II. Allegro moderato
03. III. Allegro con fuoco
04. IV. Andante
Atspindziai (Reflections)
05. I. Andante grazioso
06. II. Allegretto
07. III. Adagio
08. IV. Allegro con fuoco
09. Chamber Fantasy for Flute, Piano and String Quartet
String Quartet No. 3
10. I. Andante quasi adagio
11. II. Intermezzo: Adagio
12. III. Finale (Fantazija): Allegro
The Lithuanian composer Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907–2005) is one of the lost radicals of twentieth-century music. Under the influence of his Czech teacher, Alois Hába, Kačinskas abandoned traditional syntax in favour of an atonal athematicism, whereby the music is in constant evolution, with freely pulsing rhythms and melodic lines that branch forward like tendrils. His lyrical but tightly woven Nonet was well received at the festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in London in 1938; Bartók was one of the fellow composers who congratulated him. When Kačinskas fled Lithuania from the approaching Russians in 1944 – his name was on a death list – he had to abandon almost all his scores and began a new life as church musician in Boston, Mass. Only with the collapse of the Soviet empire could the work be reconstructed – and the composer return home in triumph.