Bruk - Orchestral Music Vol.4: Symphonies 15 & 16 | Toccata Classics TOCC0657

Bruk - Orchestral Music Vol.4: Symphonies 15 & 16

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0657

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 16th June 2023

Contents

Artists

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Imants Resnis

Works

Bruk, Fridrich

Symphony no.15 'Reflections'
Symphony no.16 'The River Dnieper'

Artists

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Imants Resnis

About

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.

“The playing and recording are again first class. The conductor Latvian Māris Kupčs displays an instinctive grasp of Bruk’s style and these readings exude tact and respect, qualities which quasi-programmatic music such as this absolutely demand. Fridrich Bruk is by now 82 years old; such is the quality of these symphonies that one earnestly hopes these fine accounts will help to raise his profile beyond his homeland(s). This is shaping up to be another life-enhancing sequence from Toccata.” – MusicWeb International, June 2020 (Vol.2: Symphonies 19–21, TOCC0543)

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