Artist: Gertruda Jerjomenko, Maris Kupčs, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Album: Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 57:57
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 900 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Gertruda Jerjomenko – I. Attempts: Andantino (12:00)
1-02. Gertruda Jerjomenko – II. Sorrow: Largamente (08:35)
1-03. Gertruda Jerjomenko – III. Strength: Robusto. Con spirito (05:43)
1-04. Anda Eglīte – I. Rose (Ruzena): Andante (14:55)
1-05. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – II. Daugavpils 1915 – Banishment: Allegretto (09:53)
1-06. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Theme: Pensieroso (00:43)
1-07. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Variation 1 (00:31)
1-08. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Variation 2: Lento (00:26)
1-09. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Variation 3 (01:40)
1-10. Liepaja Symphony Orchestra – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Variation 4: Sostenuto (02:14)
1-11. Anda Eglīte – III. 5 Variations on an Own Theme: Variation 5 (01:12)

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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.