Composer: Vytautas Bacevičius
Performer: Aidas Puodziukas
Orchestra: Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Vytautas Lukocius, Martynas Staskus
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0049
Release: 2007
Size: 292 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Poeme electrique
02. Piano Concerto No. 1, Sur le themes lituaniens
Symphony No. 2, “Della Guerra”
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Andante funebre
05. III. Allegro molto
06. Symphony No. 6, Cosmique
07. Graphique
The Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Bacevičius (1905-70) is one of the undiscovered radicals of the twentieth century. The early works on this CD show him finding his voice, as in the First Piano Concerto, with its echoes of Scriabin, and the Poème électrique, cast in the ‘machinist’ aesthetic in vogue in the 1920s and ’30s. The programmatic Second Symphony depicts the onset of the Second World War which Bacevičius, desperately anxious about his family in Poland and Lithuania, followed from his exile in the New World. And the late Sixth Symphony and Graphique, which show a kaleidoscopic, pointilliste use of orchestral colour, boiling with violent energy, point to an entirely new musical language.