Julius Juzeliūnas - Symphony No. 5 “Lygumų giesmės“/“Songs of the Plains“ (Score Video)

00:00 1. Sėdauto 14:20 2. Kalnuti Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Saulius Sondeckis Liepaitės Girls’ Choir conducted by Liucija Palinauskaitė and Petras Vailionis This recording is from a 1987 Melodiya LP. Many thanks to Ben Lunn for the score and to the YouTube channel “Obscure Little Beasties“ for the original audio ( Julius Juzeliūnas (1916-2001) was a Lithuanian composer and teacher, one of the most influential in his country during the 20th century. In the 1960s, Juzeliūnas adapted his style from national romanticism to a more modernist idiom rooted in Lithuanian folk music with elements of minimalism. Many of his most important works, including “Lygumų giesmės“ - composed in 1982 - date from this later period. “It was Miroslav Buček, Professor at the Department of Music of Brno University, a choirmaster and organist, who proposed an idea to write