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Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: Saudade
Gabrielius Alekna, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Giedrė Šlekytė
It’s high time she received wider international recognition. The four pieces here, dating from 2013-19, reveal a fascination with timbre and texture central to Martinaitytė’s creative purpose…Pianist...
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: Saudade
Gabrielius Alekna, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Giedrė Šlekytė
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It’s high time she received wider international recognition. The four pieces here, dating from 2013-19, reveal a fascination with timbre and texture central to Martinaitytė’s creative purpose…Pianist...
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Ondine’s releases on Baltic composers continue with a new exciting release featuring recent orchestral compositions by New York-based Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973) composed within a span of six ODE 1386-2 2 years performed by Lithuanian orchestras conducted by the young talented Lithuanian conductor Giedrė Šlekytė and pianist Gabrielius Alekna as soloist."
Contents and tracklist
- Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
- Giedrė Šlekytė
- Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
- Giedrė Šlekytė
- Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
- Giedrė Šlekytė
- Gabrielius Alekna
- Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
- Giedrė Šlekytė
Awards and reviews
April 2021
It’s high time she received wider international recognition. The four pieces here, dating from 2013-19, reveal a fascination with timbre and texture central to Martinaitytė’s creative purpose…Pianist Gabrielius Alekna and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra perform with subtlety yet robustness – as do the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, all under the baton of Giedrė Šlekytė.
September/October 2021
The three large orchestral works here...share a kind of monumentality, with a great emphasis on highly complex yet lucid textures and a harmonic language that tends to proceed in small, chromatic increments. Likewise, the dynamic shape of the music is massive, but proceeds in a dreamy, elastic manner. Performances here are very powerful.
April 2021
Finely recorded and annotated, this is an ideal way to explore Martinaitytė’s singular musical vision.