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« on: November 13, 2014, 12:16:21 pm » |
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I uploaded some Lithuanian music yesterday into the downloads section. I would draw particular attention to Gruodis's Funeral March (Gedulingas maršas) from the Šarūnas suite. ("Šarūnas, Duke of Dainava" was a 1911 play by Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius.)
As has been noted elsewhere on here by others, Lithuanian music is often very restrained, perhaps too much so, and fails to sparkle by comparison with its Latvian and Estonian equivalents.
I would say that Gruodis's music by and large falls into this description. The Funeral March starts that way too - and then about 3 minutes in it suddenly takes off, becoming fabulously over-the-top, and sustains this, even crescendoing. Šarūnas must have been quite a guy to deserve such a send-off! It is almost camp. It certainly sounds like film music (John Williams comes to mind) - except that it was written in 1930. Musical snobs will probably wrinkle their noses in disgust, but for everyone else - enjoy!
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