Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume Four

Catalogue No: TOCC0657
EAN/UPC: 5060113446572
Release Date: 2023-06-02
Composer: Fridrich Bruk
Artists: Imants Resnis, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

This fourth instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two earlier works – from when Bruk was merely in his late seventies. His Symphonies Nos. 15 and 16 – both predicated on Bruk’s concern for the environment – inhabit the sound-world that has become familiar from his more recent symphonies: almost a stream of consciousness expressed through wildly inventive orchestral writing in a kaleidoscope of colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance.

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Imants Resnis, conductor

Listen To This Recording:

    Symphony No. 15, Reflections (2015)

  1. I Reflection 1
  2. II Reflection 2
  3. III Reflection 3
  4. Symphony No. 16, The River Dnieper (2016)

  5. I The Interrupted Melody
  6. II The Story of Chernobyl
  7. III The River Dnieper
  8. IV Storm and Enlightenment
 

FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume Four

  1. :

    ‘I found Bruk to be a versatile, gifted and colourful orchestrator. The Symphonies are blessed with a superb recording. The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra perform with real commitment and fire. Imants Resnis is inspirational in every respect. The accompanying annotations are detailed and informative.’

    —Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International

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