Composer: Vladas Jakubėnas
Performer: Kasparas Uinskas, Kaskados Piano Trio, Vilnius String Quartet
Orchestra: St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Donatas Katkus
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0013
Release: 2012
Size: 306 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet, Op. 4
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio non troppo – Allegretto scherzando – Andante mosso – Adagio
2 Pictures, Op. 2
03. No. 1, From the Land of Fairytales
04. No. 2, Legend
05. Melody-Legend
06. Serenade
Prelude and Triple Fugue in D minor
07. Prelude
08. Fugue
Vladas Jakubėnas (1904–76) was one of the major cultural figures in pre-World War Two Lithuania: he was a prominent composer, critic, teacher and musical activist. After the Second World War he was one of the many Baltic composers exiled to the USA, in his instance Chicago. As a student of Schreker in Berlin in 1928–32, he initially wrote in a neo-Classical style – as most of the works on this CD attest – and was nicknamed ‘the Lithuanian Hindemith‘. Back home in the mid-1930s he began to compose in a late-Romantic, gently modernist idiom, tinged with the influence of Lithuanian folk-music. This is the first recording of the music on this CD.