Vytautas Bacevičius: Piano Music, Volume Two
The Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–70) is one of the undiscovered pioneers of the twentieth century. This second volume of his piano music presents works written between 1927 and 1966 and shows the evolution of his musical language from the post-Skryabin style of the early works, via the influence of Debussy, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, to a highly individual modernism, akin to that of his fellow radicals Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe – all three of them Europeans in exile in New York.
Gabrielius Alekna, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- Poeme Astral, Op. 7 (1927)
- Poeme No. 4, Op. 10 (1929)
- Etude No. 2, Op. 19 (1933)
- Fantasia, Op. 39 (1944)*
- Etude No. 4, Op. 43 (1946)*
- I Larghetto – poco più mosso – Allegro vivace
- II Lento – un poco piu mosso (Andante) – Tempo I – Moderato sostenuto – Lento
- III Presto – Prestissimo – Tempo I
- Dance Fantastic
- I Vision
- II Humoresque
- III Meditation
- Etude No. 5, Op. 61
- I Allegro moderato
- II Adagio
- III Vivace
Sonata No. 4, Op. 53 (1952-53)*
Dance Fantastic, Op. 55 (1954)*
Evocations, Op. 57 (1955)*
Etude No. 5, Op. 61 (1956)*
Trois pensées musicales, Op. 75 (1966)
*First Recordings
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