Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 / Resnis, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
March 15, 2024
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Fridrich Bruk
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 15, 2024
    • UPC
      5060113446619
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0661
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

This fifth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two large canvases inspired by painters: Symphony No. 13 by the revolutionary Soviet artist Kazimir Malevich, and No. 14 by Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream. Bruk may seem to write in a kind of stream of consciousness, but his works are subtly bound together through a network of motifs and details of scoring. Even so, the orchestral writing in both pieces is wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance, with hints here and there of Prokofiev and Szymanowski.