Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra & Māris Kupčs - Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2022)
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Classical | Label: Toccata Classics
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 318 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:46
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics
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 its 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 colour and counterpoint, sitting somewhere between Villa-Lobos and Pettersson in its profligate abundance.