Composer: Vladas Jakubėnas
Performer: Dainius Jozėnas, Jurgita Mintautienė, Gintautas Skliutas, Vilnius Jauna Muzika Municipal Choir
Conductor: Vaclovas Augustinas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0028
Release: 2016
Size: 207 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Vai eiciau as, eiciau (O I Would Go)
02. Tremtiniu ir isveztuju giesme (The Song of the Exiles and the Deportees)
03. Motinos kalba (Our Mother’s Tongue)
04. Vakaro maldoj (At Evening Prayer)
05. Daug tureta mylimuju (Many Lovers Have I Had)
06. Nurimk, sesut (Hush, Little Sister)
07. Jezau, Tu mano gyvybe (Jesus, Thou art my Life)
08. O, kad as Ji regeciau (Oh, If Only I Could See Him)
09. Stai as cia, Garbes Karaliau (Here I Am, O King of Glory)
10. Tyloj Tu svenciamasis (In Silence Thou Art Celebrated)
11. Uz juriu mareliu, uz Nemuno (Over the Seas, Beyond the Nemunas River)
12. Vai leidzia duoda (Oh, Father is Giving His Dear Daughter Away)
13. Po darzuzi vaiksciojau (I Used to Walk in My Garden)
14. Ei auga, auga (Oh, a Girl is Growing, Growing)
15. Augino mociute (Mother Raised Her Daughter)
16. Auksti kalnai, lygios lankos (High Hills, Level Meadows)
17. Svyruoj, linguoj paukstelis (A Little Bird is Sitting, Perched)
18. Uz juru mariu (Across the Seas)
The Lithuanian Vladas Jakubėnas (1904–78) is one of a lost generation of Baltic composers. A student of Schreker in Berlin, he returned home to help build the musical culture of his country. The Nazi invasion and Soviet occupation drove him into exile and, after five years in refugee camps in Germany, he settled in Chicago, playing an impotant role in the Lithuanian diaspora in North America.
These eighteen choral songs show the deep identification of his late-Romantic style with the folk-music of the land he was forced to leave behind.
Vaclovas Augustinas (b. 1959) graduated from the Department of Choir Conducting (1981) and the Department of Composition (1992) of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Since 1992 has been conductor of Jauna Muzika. Some of his compositions have received prizes at national and international competitions and have been published by Alliance Music Publications and Laurendale Associates (USA). Vilnius City Municipal Choir Jauna Muzika was founded in 1989 by the conductor and composer Remigijus Merkelys and its long-lived director Algimantas Gurevičius. The choir received the highest award – Grand Prix Europeo – at the Grand Prix Winners Contest organised by the International Federation for Choral Music in Varna (Bulgaria) in 1993. Earlier this year Toccata Classics released a CD of Bronius Kutavičius’ oratorio The Seasons (TOCC 0200), which featured Jauna Muzika.