Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume Five
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 (2014) by the revolutionary Polish-Ukrainian Soviet artist Kazimir Malevich, and No. 14 (2015) 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.
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
Imantis Resnis, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
Symphony No. 13, The Artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) (2014) (34:12)
- I. Kazimir (15:04)
- II. The Two Squares, Black and Red (1915) (6:46)
- III. The Revolution (12:22)
- Symphony No. 14, The Scream (2015) (31:35)
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