Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume One

Discovery Club Members Save 30%!
Login or Join Today
£8.00£14.00

Catalogue No: TOCC0455
EAN/UPC: 5060113444554
Release Date: 2018-02-01
Composer: Fridrich Bruk
Artists: Anda Eglīte, Gertruda Jerjomenko, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Māris Kupčs

Fridrich Bruk – born in Kharkov in 1937 and a Finnish resident since 1974 – made his name as a composer of tangos. But the heart of his music lies in a series of eighteen symphonies, which have a strong narrative element, some reflecting Jewish themes, others inspired by Karelia and Finland. Symphony No. 17, Joy of Life (which Bruk also calls a ‘Concerto-Symphony for Orchestra and Piano’), has an autobiographical programme charting, in abstract terms, Bruk’s surmounting of the obstacles fate put in his path. Symphony No. 18 takes as its starting point a Latvian-Jewish folksong: it is premised on the deportation of his grandparents from their Latvian home, in an anti-Semitic campaign by Tsarist Russia that Bruk sees as a kind of prologue to the Holocaust.

Gertruda Jerjomenko, piano
Anda Eglīte, kokle (Tracks 4–11)
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Māris Kupčs, conductor

Listen To This Recording:

    Symphony No. 17, Joy of Life (2016)

  1. I Attempts: Andantino
  2. II Sorrow: Largamente
  3. III Strength: Robusto. Con spirito
  4. Symphony No. 18, Daugavpils (2017)

  5. I Rose (Ruzena): Andante
  6. II Daugavpils 1915 – Banishment: Allegretto
  7. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Theme – Pensieroso
  8. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Var. 1
  9. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Var. 2 – Lento
  10. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Var. 3
  11. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Var. 4 – Sostenuto
  12. III Five Variations on an Own Theme: Var. 5

FIRST RECORDINGS

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume One”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *