Product Description
Four-part suite " The Seasons " for narrator
and orchestra Lithuanian composer Kazys Daugėla created on the basis of K.
Donelaitis poem " The Seasons " plots and the most famous artist
Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas (1907-1997) woodcut illustrations. These Donelaitis
poem "The Seasons" illustrations have become classics of Lithuanian
art. Composer created his paintings of the suite using native Lithuania Minor
folk song melodies. Some of them are written almost 200 years ago. Most songs
used are from Christian Bartsch prepared and published by Lithuanian folk songs
"Song of the votes".
"If you do not doubt that the songs soul is in the
melody, it should also be true, that the song is understood correctly only when
we sing or listen to it" so believed Ch. Bartsch. He could not possibly
foresee that the songs that sounded at his time will be wiped out in parallel
with the East Prussian population. But after all, maybe he did predict?
Therefore, he was rescuing them.
The ancient epics and worldview associate "The
Seasons" with cyclical idea of time, which is expressed by the view of The
Suns path in the sky. The main hero of this musical work is The Sun and the
diversity of nature, life and work associated with it. In the Eternal Circle we
born, age, die - everything repeats, nothing new happens.
In
the second part of the "The
Cares of Winter", the Lithuanian traditional
Advent song "Sodai, sodai, leliumoj" was used and developed.
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