Orchestral Music
BACEVIČIUS, Vytautas

Catalogue Number: TOCC0049
EAN: 5060113440495
Release Date: 26 June 2007
Duration: 66:15

Graphique
Poème Électrique
Piano Concerto No. 1, Sur les thèmes lituaniens
Symphony No. 2, Della Guerra
Symphony No. 6, Cosmique

Aidas Puodžiukas, piano
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
Vytautas Lukočius, conductor
Martynas Staškus, conductor

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.

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See also:

• Mägi: Orchestral Music
• Meyer: Works for Cello and Piano
• Plakidis: Music for String Orchestra
• Schnittke Discoveries
• Tormis: Works for Men's Voices
• Vuori: Symphonies 1 and 2
• Hugh Wood: Chamber Music

Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
1	Poème Électrique (1932) Vytautas Bacevičius, composer Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Vytautas Lukočius, conductor (first recording)	5:30
2	Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Sur les thèmes lituaniens (1929) Vytautas Bacevičius, composer Aidas Puodžiukas, piano Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Martynas Staškus, conductor (first recording)	14:20
	Symphony No. 2, Della Guerra (1940) Vytautas Bacevičius, composer Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Vytautas Lukočius, conductor (first recording)	21:10
3	I. Allegro	7:53
4	II. Andante funebre	8:15
5	III. Allegro molto	5:02
6	Symphony No. 6, Cosmique (1960) Vytautas Bacevičius, composer Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Vytautas Lukočius, conductor (first recording)	12:58
7	Graphique (1964) Vytautas Bacevičius, composer Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra Vytautas Lukočius, conductor (first recording)	12:17

Artists

Vytautas Bacevičius, composer
[credit: J. Abresch, N.Y.]

Aidas Puodžiukas, piano

Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
[credit: Dmitrijus Matvejevas]

Vytautas Lukočius, conductor

Martynas Staškus, conductor