Vladas Jakubėnas: Chamber and Instrumental Music

Catalogue Number: TOCC0013
EAN: 5060113440136
Release Date: 1 October 2012
Duration: 66:43

String Quartet, Op. 4
Two Pictures, Op. 2, for piano
Melody-Legend for violin and piano
Serenade for cello and piano
Prelude and Triple Fugue for string orchestra

Vilnius String Quartet, string quartet
Kasparas Uinskas, piano
Rusnė Mataitytė, violin
Edmundas Kulikauskas, cello
Albina Šikšniūtė, piano
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, chamber orchestra
Donatas Katkus, conductor

As composer, critic, teacher and musical activist, Vladas Jakubėnas (1904–76) was one of the major cultural figures in pre-World War Two Lithuania, before his post-War exile in the USA. As a student of Schreker in Berlin in 1928–32, he initially wrote in a Neoclassical style – as most of the works on this CD attest – and was nicknamed ‘the Lithuanian Hindemith’. Back home, he began to compose in a late-Romantic, gently modernist idiom, tinged with the influence of Lithuanian folk-music.

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