Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music, Volume Four

Featuring

Imants Resnis
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Fridrich Bruk

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Performer Biography

Imants Resnis, the conductor on this album, is a prominent Latvian conductor who became artistic director and principal conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in 1992.

Composition History

Fridrich Bruk's Symphony No. 16, 'The River Dnieper,' was written in 2016, twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, and its second movement is subtitled 'The Story of Chernobyl.'

Composer's Artistic Vision

Fridrich Bruk, who has lived in Finland since 1974, describes Finland's forests and lakes as inspiring his Symphony No. 15, 'Reflections,' where nature's forms and one's own face are reflected.

Composer's Artistic Vision

A recurring theme in many of Fridrich Bruk's works, particularly his symphonies, is that of exile, often expressed through musical metaphors of 'holding zones' and turbulence.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Fridrich Bruk's symphonies often inhabit 'discomfiting spaces,' charting a sense of 'being' in works that serve as a testament to traumatic episodes of the last century.

Compositional Technique

In the third movement of Symphony No. 16, 'The River Dnieper,' Fridrich Bruk incorporates a recording of birdsong and water currents, melding it with the orchestra to create an extraordinary sound-world.

Performer Biography

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO), featured on this recording, was founded in 1940 by pianist and composer Balys Dvarionas and has represented Lithuanian culture abroad for over eight decades.