Vytautas Bacevicius (1905–1970) : Intégrale de la musique pour piano solo, orgue solo et deux pianos

Piano International (Jul, 2012)
Vytautas Bacevi?ius (1905-70) is little more than a name outside his native Lithuania. In his highly informative booklet note, Malcolm MacDonald details several of the vicissitudes that beset this combative, mercurial creator. The music is like the man: volatile and eruptive with episodes of lyricism, charm and humour. His radicalism left him marginalised both in his native Lithuania and during his long, unresolved exile in the US.

Bacevi?ius saw himself as the successor to Scriabin, but with influences including Varèse, Stravinsky and Prokofiev. The seven works in the ‘Mot’ series (literally meaning ‘Word’) were not conceived as a cycle per se but rather as an occasional series of fantasias or studies. …