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Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Guntis Kuzma – Juris Karlsons: Dances of Life and Death (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:38 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album features world premiere studio recordings of symphonic works by a prominent Latvian composer Juris Karlsons (1948).
The varied pieces on this album share a common characteristic: they are linked with the stage, with theatre, and therefore with another kind of art, namely, narrative art. All of the works are rooted in literary compositions as their original message, as their impulse.
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Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – Imants Kalnins: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7, Oboe Concerto & Santa Cruz (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:55:16 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album recorded in April of 2018 and featuring Liepaja Symphony Orchestra and renown Latvian choral conductor Maris Sirmais offers world premiere recordings of Imants Kalnins’ Symphony No. 7, Oboe Concerto and symphonic miniature Santa Cruz, paired with a brand new recording of Symphony No. 5 with conductor Atvars Lakstigala.
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Gertruda Jerjomenko, Maris Kupčs, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra – Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 900 MB | Genre: Classical
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Fridrich Bruk – born in Kharkov in 1937 and a Finnish resident since 1974 – made his name as a composer of tangos. But the heart of his music lies in a series of eighteen symphonies, which have a strong narrative element, some reflecting Jewish themes, others inspired by Karelia and Finland. Symphony No. 17, Joy of Life (which Bruk also calls a ‘Concerto-Symphony for Orchestra and Piano’), has an autobiographical programme charting, in abstract terms, Bruk’s surmounting of the obstacles fate put in his path. Symphony No. 18 takes as its starting point a Latvian-Jewish folksong: it is premised on the deportation of his grandparents from their Latvian home, in an anti-Semitic campaign by Tsarist Russia that Bruk sees as a kind of prologue to the Holocaust.
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Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & John Gibbons – Arnold: Orchestral Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
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These two works present two sharply contrasting sides of Malcolm Arnold: his limitless resources of knockabout fun, and a sense of existential tragedy. But each score presents its own surprises: the jocularity of the Grand Concerto Gastronomique – written for a Hoffnung concert – conceals some seriously good (though not seriously serious) music; and the delicately scored Ninth Symphony, written after five years when its composer had, in his own words, ‘been through hell’, irradiates its emotional restraint and elegiac tone with moments of light and warmth.
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Alexandre Dubach, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:18 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This second volume of orchestral music by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) brings works from across his career. A suite drawn from an early Festspiel – a community pageant – opens with a march of Elgarian swagger and continues with a mix of charm and substance. Flury was a gifted violinist, and his Third Violin Concerto, written at the height of the Second World War, is virtuosic and lyrical in equal measure, its unashamed Romanticism perhaps an escape from troubled times. The four late Caprices for Violin and Orchestra form a concertante serenade in all but name; and one of his very last pieces was a dark and moving tribute to a musician friend, the slow movement of a suite he did not live to finish.
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