Arranger(s): Rubackytė, Mūza
Label: Naxos
Genre: Instrumental
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.572660
Barcode: 747313266074
Distribution Note(s):
Currently not available on CD.
Release Date: 09/2011

CIURLIONIS, M.K.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Rubackyte)

One of Lithuania’s leading artistic figures, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis pursued a career as a painter as well as a musician, seeing all art as springing from the same source. His earlier works inhabit a romantic idiom, with the colorful influences of folk-music and the beauty of the countryside intermingled with pieces showing his development while at the Conservatoires of Warsaw and Leipzig. Mūza Rubackytė’s recordings of Čiurlionis have been described as ‘flawless’ (American Record Guide) and she herself as ‘one of today’s most important pianists’. (Chicago Tribune)

Tracklist

Čiurlionis, Mikalojus Konstantinas
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
1 Prelude in D Minor, VL 239 02:15
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
2 Prelude in A Minor, VL 241 01:26
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
3 Prelude in D Minor, VL 256 04:04
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
4 Prelude in B Minor, VL 259 00:49
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
5 Pater Noster, VL 260 02:35
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
6 Autumn, VL 264 01:58
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
7 No. 1. VL 271 01:53
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
8 No. 2. VL 270 02:54
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
9 No. 3. VL 269 01:59
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
10 Prelude in D Minor, VL 294 01:15
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
11 Prelude in D Minor, VL 295 01:51
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
12 Impromptu in D Minor, VL 298 01:05
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
13 Prelude, VL 304 01:04
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
14 Prelude in D Minor, VL 325 02:57
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
15 Prelude in C Major, VL 327 01:08
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
16 Prelude in C Major, VL 330 01:25
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
17 Prelude in A Major, VL 335 01:42
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
18 Prelude in G Major, VL 338 02:41
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
19 Prelude in D Minor, VL 340, "Oh, My Dear Mother" 01:18
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
20 Prelude in G Minor, VL 343 01:07
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
21 Prelude in D Minor, VL 344 02:10
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
22 Fugue in B-Flat Minor, VL 345 05:45
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
Čiurlionis, Mikalojus Konstantinas
Rubackytė, Mūza - Arranger
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
23 I. Allegro moderato 10:43
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
24 II. Andante 08:55
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)
25 III. Menuet: Grazioso 04:34
Rubackytė, Mūza (piano)

Total Playing Time: 01:09:33