ONUTĖ GRAŽINYTĖ – RECITAL / MORAVIAN AUTUMN

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Prelude B-flat Major, Op. 17, Nr. 6

OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Prelude No. 1 „La Colombe“

MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS
Prelude b minor VL 182a
Prelude B Major VL 186

OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Prelude No. 7 „Plainte Calme“

MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS
Prelude D-flat major („Pastoral“) VL 187

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Prelude D-flat Major, Op. 11, Nr. 15
Prelude d minor, Op. 11, Nr. 24
Prelude C Major, Op. 48, Nr. 2

MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS
Prelude F Major/a minor VL 188

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Prelude C Major, Op. 11, Nr. 1
Prelude D Major, Op. 39, Nr. 1

ALVIDAS REMESA
Stygmatas, Five Miniatures

VYTAUTAS BACEVIČIUS
Poema Nr. 4, Op. 10

VÍTĚZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
April Preludes, Op. 13

GRAŻYNA BACEWICZ
Sonata Nr. 2

 

Onutė Gražinytė piano

Download the concert programme (in czech) here.

 

The Lithuanian pianist Onutė Gražinytė comes from a musical family: her father is a major choir director and her elder sister Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla a conductor of world stature. Onutė
Gražinytė studied in Vilnius and Hanover and won prizes in a number of competitions. As soloist she has appeared with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and
National Orchestra of Lyon, and she gives recitals at home and abroad. She is also a passionate chamber player.

Her recital is full of dialogues: between music from her homeland and other parts of the world; between Alexander Scriabin and his Lithuanian contemporary, the acclaimed composer and famous symbolist painter, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis; between preludes by Scriabin and Čiurlionis and later preludes by the French composer Olivier Messiaen; between Grażyna Bacewicz and Vytautas Bacevičius, siblings in a Polish-Lithuanian family (Bacewicz became a part of the 20th-century Polish musical culture, while Bacevičius claimed Lithuanian nationality after his father and was a pioneer of musical modernism in the inter-war Lithuania); and finally between Grażyna Bacewicz and her contemporary from Brno, Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940), whose promising career was cut short by a premature death.

Vítězslav Mikeš