Vytautas Lukocius - Orchestral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This third instalment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two works of astonishing vitality for a composer in his eighties. Both of them have social undercurrents Symphony No. 22 is driven by ecological concerns about the pollution of the world's oceans, and No. 23 takes it's material from folk-melodies of the Ingrians, a vanishing ethnic group on the Finnish-Russian border. The orchestral writing in both pieces is passionate and wildly inventive, a kaleidoscope of color and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in it's profligate abundance. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 22, in the Ocean 2. Symphony No. 23, in the Ingrian Mode

Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honor and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. Historical recordings include Leonard's cellist mother, Eleanor Aller, being conducted by Korngold in the Haydn concerto and a 1944 broadcast of his father, Felix, as a solo violinist in Brahms. Every piece here has a deeply personal connection for the family. For his composition The Raven, Leonard used Edgar Allan Poe's poem in a work that is Inchalmost like a concerto for speaker and orchestra.Inch Album Tracks 1. Endgames 2. The Raven 3. Kinah 4. In Fields 5. 21 Hungarian Dances, Woo 1, Book 4 No. 2 in F-Sharp minor. Andantino (Arr. for Violin & Orchestra) 6. Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Op. 101, Hob. Viib 2 III. Rondo (Arr. E. Korngold for Cello & Orchestra) 7. Fisher's Hornpipe (Arr. C. McTee & F. Slatkin for Orchestra) 8. Wistful Haven (After Dvorák's B. 178) 9. Carmen's Hoedown (After Bizet's WD 31)

Album Tracks 1. Dramatic Overture, Op. 21 2. Fantaisie Sur Des Chants Populaires Lettons, Op. 42 Allegro Non Troppo 3. Fantaisie Sur Des Chants Populaires Lettons, Op. 42 Molto Moderato, Mesto 4. Fantaisie Sur Des Chants Populaires Lettons, Op. 42 Allegro 5. Spriditis, Ouverture Pour Un Conte Dramatique Letton, Op. 37 6. Dargakmeni (Jewels), Op. 66 Amethysts (Lento) 7. Dargakmeni (Jewels), Op. 66 Emeralds (Allegro Rustico) 8. Dargakmeni (Jewels), Op. 66 Perals (Allegro) 9. Dargakmeni (Jewels), Op. 66 Rubies (Agitato) 10. Dargakmeni (Jewels), Op. 66 Diamonds (Allegro Di Molto) 11. Autumn Song