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Lithuanian Choir Music 1989​-​2009 / Lietuvių chorinė muzika 1989​-​2009

by Aidija Chamber Choir, Romualdas Gražinis

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Nomeda Valančiūtė. Lietus plonom stiklinėm kojom / The Rain on Thin Glass Legs 04:03
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Henrikas Radauskas
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Onutė Narbutaitė. Vasara / Summer 02:39
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Onutė Narbutaitė
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Vidmantas Bartulis. Gražuolis garvežys / The Handsome Locomotive 04:43
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Vidmantas Bartulis
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Algirdas Martinaitis. Intakas / Tributary 07:13
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Kristina Vasiliauskaitė. Ir atlėkė paukščiukė / And the Bird Came Flying 03:33
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Romualdas Gražinis. Vai ūžia gaudžia / What a Drone 02:50
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Vaclovas Augustinas. Treputė martela 04:14
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Antanas Kučinskas. Giesmė apie smerties artėjimą / Chant about Approaching Death 08:46
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Mindaugas Urbaitis. Išvaikščiojau mišką, išvaikščiojau lauką / Strolling Over the Groves and Fields 04:49
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Jonas Juškaitis
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Vytautas Montvila. Skamba kankliai / Zither Sounds 03:09
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Juozas Gruodis. Skamba kankliai / Zither Sounds 01:31
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For the CD recorded to celebrate the Aidija's 20th jubilee the choir chose a programme of songs arranged and composed by Lithuanian composers. Majority of them are contemporaries of the choir, writen in recent decades. Only Juozas Gruodis' "Skamba, skamba kanklės" ("Zither Sounds") revisits the interwar period. In this composition, written in Leipzig during study years (1921) by still young composer, J. Gruodis utilised sutartinė for the first time. However, this song is considered to be among the most beautiful pages in Lithuanian choral music - it is an inventively developed folk song. Sutartinė is a unique genre of Lithuanian polyphonic musical folklore. This song and Vytautas Montvila's composition bearing the same title make an unexpected diptych. By placing them alongside R.Gražinis and Aidija sought to reveal two different approaches to the same sutartinė. In addition, having heard the choir singing at the very outset of its career, V.Montvila brought his manuscript to R.Gražinis as a sign of respect and trust. The CD features one more approach to sutartinė - "Treputė martela". In this effective and colourful choral composition Vaclovas Augustinas brought into play several folk instruments. From the very beginning, "Treputė martela" has become one of the choir's favourite concert-closing pieces.
Antanas Kučinskas' composition "Giesmė apie smerties artėjimą" ("Chant about Approuching Death") is a movement from oratorio-mystery "Giesmės apie smertį" ("Chants about Expiry"), premiered in Tytuvėnai festival in 2007. An amalgam of acient Lithuanian liturgical texts, links with Baroque music, poly-modal elements, rich and wilful sonorities characteristic of academic chanting and Samogitian songs are attributes revealing original stylisation of this chant.
A number of songs featured on the CD belong to the most prominent exponents of Lithuanian minimalism and neo-romanticism of the 70s: Onutė Narbutaitė's "Vasara" ("Summer"), Vidmantas Bartulis' "Gražuolis garvėžys" ("The Handsome Locomotive"), Algirdas Martinaitis' "Intakas" ("Tributary"), Mindaugas Urbaitis' "Išvaikščiojau mišką" (Strolling Over the Groves and Fields"). It is with this music that Aidija had the closest creative affinity in recent years. The song genre is, perhaps, not the most characteristic of these composers. Today we associate them with large forms, complex musical language and modified stylistics. Therefore, songs composed by these composers ten or more years ago in a vein of minimalism and neo-romanticism fascinate with flexibility, undisguised intimacy and playfulness. Similar features enlist Nomeda Valančiūtė's composition "Lietus plonom stiklinėm kojom" ("The Rain on Thin Glass Legs") in this group of songs.
The CD features two more developed Lithuanian folk songs. Kristina Vasiliauskaitė's "Ir atlėkė paukščiukė" ("And the Bird Came Flying") attests to the long-year musical friendship between the composer and the choir. While "Vai ūžia gaudžia" ("What a Drone"), whose authentic form was published in "Dainos" ("Songs"), a collection of Lithuanian songs compiled by Liudvikas Rėza in 1825, is a choral arrangement by Romualdas Gražinis.

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released January 1, 2009

Liner notes: Vytautė Markeliūnienė
Translation: Sonata Zubovienė and Reda Stabinskienė

Sound engineer: Laura Jurgelionytė
Recording: studio AUREA
Artwork: Gediminas Leonavičius
Photography: Džiugas Bareikis
Design and layout: TYPOART

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AIDIJA Chamber Choir was founded in 1989 in Vilnius at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art on an initiative of Romualdas Gražinis. Admired for its idiosyncratic voice and performing manner the youthful collective regularly presents new programs featuring works by Lithuanian and foreign composers. The choir’s repertoire spans from Gregorian chant to the 21st century compositions. ... more

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