“Andris Dzenītis. Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2” is available internationally from October 31st both in CD format and on the most popular digital streaming and download platforms.
This album features world premiere recordings of Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 by Andris Dzenītis as well as symphonic miniature The Lonely Pine Tree performed by Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma and Christian Lindberg conducting.
It is hard to imagine Latvian symphonic music in the 21st century without Dzenītis’s music. The qualities that permeate his music in all genres, namely, a particular dramatic power and emotional intensity, are particularly noticeable in his First Symphony (featured as live concert recording of the premiere of the work in Great Amber Concert Hall in Liepāja on the 28th of January, 2018). From this perspective, the work serves as a dramatic summit, which is followed by the Second Symphony and its unhurried, resigned view of the world. On the scale of emotional intensity, the First Symphony is high tide, the Second is low tide.
A stylistically distinct miniature The Lonely Pine Tree. Falsification and Epitaph is a fantasy about the musical material from a not entirely destroyed work by [composer] Emīls Dārziņš (1875–1910) and serves as a bookmark between the two major works.
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