Kepitis: Piano Miniatures from the Manuscripts, Vol. 2

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
August 16, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Janis Kepitis
    • PERFORMER
      Nora Luse, Janis Kepitis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 16, 2024
    • UPC
      5060113447265
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0726
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. A Little Cloud

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    2. II. Flakes Fall

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    3. III. Vortex

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    4. IV. The Story of the Flakes

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    5. V. Christmas Tree Dreams

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    6. VI. Waltz

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    7. VII. Thaw

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    8. VIII. And Spring Again

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    9. I. Andulis

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    10. II. Elvira

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    11. III. Nanny

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    12. IV. Vija

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    13. V. Biruta

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    14. VI. Niko

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    15. I. Evening Song

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    16. II. Anxiety

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    17. III. Sadness

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    18. IV. Delight

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    19. V. Frolic

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    20. VI. Laugh

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    21. VII. Solace

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    22. I. A Ray of Sunshine

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    23. II. Butterfly and Boy

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    24. III. Youthful Delight

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    25. IV. The Black Cloud

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    26. V. After Rain

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    27. I. Moderato

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    28. II. Andante tranquillo

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    29. III. In Movimento

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Nora Lūse

    30. Ligo Night: III. St. John's Fire

      Composer: Jānis Ķepītis

      Performer: Jānis Ķepītis


The Latvian composer Janis Kepitis (1908-89) has a fairly low profile even in his home country, never mind beyond it's borders. His output was nonetheless substantial, with no fewer than six symphonies to his name, ten concertos, a number of large-scale choral-orchestral pieces, countless songs and choruses and a voluminous body of chamber music - almost all of it unknown. Kepitis was himself a gifted pianist, and his hundred or so compositions for piano show a predilection for the miniature. The works here, most of them discovered among his manuscripts, inhabit a world downstream from Skryabin and Rachmaninoff, with a gentle hint of Debussy and an occasional wisp of Latvian folk-music.