Onutė Narbutaitė, a Lithuanian composer, emerged in the early 1980s behind the Iron Curtain, adopting a subtle worldview distinct from official socialist realism and prevalent folklore-inspired styles.
Performer Biography
Christopher Lyndon-Gee, the conductor, has been nominated for GRAMMY® Awards three times and is included in Naxos's A to Z of Conductors, covering the history of conducting.
Critical Reception
According to German music critic Albrecht Thiemann, Onutė Narbutaitė's compositions achieve a rare balance, sounding both simple and complex, personal and universal, meditative and analytical.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Narbutaitė's artistic thinking is distinctive due to her engagement with painting and poetry in her youth, which contributes to her harnessing a host of insights and connotations in her music.
Historical Context
Narbutaitė's family history, including her mother's deportation to Siberia by Soviet occupiers and her maternal grandfather's displacement by World War Two, shaped her worldview and cultural resistance.
Composition History
The composition "no yesterday, no tomorrow" is an episode adapted for concert performance from Narbutaitė's opera Cornet, which premiered in 2014 and is based on Rainer Maria Rilke's prose poem.
Recording & Production
This album is a world premiere recording of "no yesterday, no tomorrow" and was made possible by grants from the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture, and the Lithuanian Copyright Protection Association.
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