Sandglasses, by Justė Janulytė

Sandglasses

by Justė Janulytė

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1.	Sandglasses (DVD)	info
2.	Interviews	info
3.	Elongation of Nights 08:16	info	buy track
4.	Aquarelle 10:22	info	buy track
5.	Observation of Clouds 33:56	info	buy track
6.	Psalms 10:57	info	buy track
7.	Textile 07:27	info	buy track

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The music of Justė Janulytė (b. 1982) leaked into the hotbed of international new music events like the river a hardly visible and audible brook at first, but rapidly growing into a faster, wider, mightier stream... The same metaphor might be applied to describe her works: they seem to emerge from the 'ringing silence; or some-times even from a mere premonition of sound when one cannot be certain, lithe music is actually heard or just approaching from afar. Then one has to hush down and prick one's ears up. One usually remains in such state of stillness to the very last sound, which leaves the echoing trace of past musical action and transformations until it ultimately fades away, melts into thin air. In a similarly intent way we listen to the rumble of distant thunder, the rising wind and the first drops of a brewing storm.

Such comparisons to the natural phenomena are not haphazard in this case, because the composer has an outspoken predilection for the embodiment of nature-driven universal ideas in music (e. g. 'Elongation of Nights'; 'Observation of Clouds'; the sand falling in the 'Sandglasses'). On the one hand, this feature might stem from the deep-rooted connection to the Baltic worldview (in which the vestiges of pagan nature worship can still be traced) and its musical manifestation that had shaped into a trend known as Baltic minimalism in the last decades of the 20th century. But on the other, she might have inherited this interest in the natural phenomena from her family; she had spent many childhood summers at the observatory, with her astrophysicist father, where mysterious celestial bodies and vast cosmic distances, observed through a telescope, roused and nourished the imagination of the future, composer.

Jūratė Katinaitė

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released December 31, 2013

PERFORMERS:
Edmundas Kulikauskas, Povilas Jacunskas, Rūta Tamutytė, Onutė Švabauskaitė - cellos (1)
Francesco Dillon - cello (6)
State Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga, conductor - Normunds Šnē (3, 5)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor - Paul Hillier (4)
Youth Choir Kamēr... (5)
Teatro La Fenice Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Eliahu Inbal (7)

DVD editing and authoring - Luca Scarzella, Michele Innocente (Studio Vertov, Milan)
CD editing and mastering - Arūnas Zujus (MAMA Studios, Vilnius)
Lines notes - Jūratė Katinaitė, Antoine Gindt, Justė Janulytė
Editing and translation - Veronika Janatjeva
Design and layout - Liudas Parulskis
Photo credits - Dmitrij Matvejev (cover picture, portraits of Janulytė),
Luca Scarzella ('Sandglasses' images on the inside cover)
Executive producer - Veronika Janatjeva

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Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation
Partner - Vilnius Festivals

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