Bronius Kutavičius is a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n composer. He has written numerous oratorio

Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...

s and opera

Opera

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s, among them The Last Pagan Rites, Lokys the Bear and The Gates of Jerusalem. He won the Lithuanian State Prize in 1995, and the prize of the Probaltica Festival in Toruń

Torun

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 (Poland) in 1996.

Selected works

• Sonata for viola and piano (1968)
• Ant kranto (On the Shore) for soprano and 4 violas (1972); words by Jonas Mekas
  Jonas Mekas
  Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dzūkiškos Variacijos (Dzuk Variations) (1978)
• The Last Pagan Rites, oratorio (1978)
• Strazdas žalias paukštis (Thrush, the Green Bird), opera-poem (1981); libretto by Sigitas Geda
  Sigitas Geda
  Sigitas Geda was a poet and translator in Lithuania.- Education and career :He studied history and philology at Vilnius University. In 1966 his collection Pedos came out. He was also a leading figure in the Movement for the Support of Perestroika or Sąjūdis...
  
  
• Iš Jotvingių Akmens (From the Jatvingian Stone) (1983)
• Pasaulio Medis (The Tree of the World) (1986)
• The Gates of Jerusalem (1991-95)
• Epitaphium temporum pereunti (1998)
• Lokys (Lokis the Bear), opera (2000) - commissioned by the Vilnius Festival (2000), to libretto by US based Aušra Marija Sluckaitė-Jurašienė after Prosper Mérimée
  Prosper Mérimée
  Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.-Life:...
  
  's short story Lokis the bear. This afterwards entered the repertoire of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
  Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
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• Joys of Spring (2005)

vinyl

1973 Melodiya

Melodiya

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 33SM-04251/2 - Stygnis Kvartetas (String Quartet) Nr. 1 (1971): Vilniaus kvartetas. Together with string quartets by Vytautas Barkauskas

Vytautas Barkauskas

Vytautas Barkauskas is a Lithuanian composer and is a Professor of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of Music, where he has taught since 1961.-Career:...

 & Vytautas Juozapaitis.

1979 Melodiya

Melodiya

Melodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...

 S10-12535/6 - Dzūkiškos Variacijos (Dzuk Variations) / Praeities Laikrodžiai (Hours of the Past) / Mažasis Spektaklis (Little Play): Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras / Vilniaus kvartetas etc.

1979 Melodiya

Melodiya

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 S42-12623/4 (7") - Eilės: Sigitas Geda

Sigitas Geda

Sigitas Geda was a poet and translator in Lithuania.- Education and career :He studied history and philology at Vilnius University. In 1966 his collection Pedos came out. He was also a leading figure in the Movement for the Support of Perestroika or Sąjūdis...

: Nijolė Gelžinytė (reading) / Vilniaus Kvartetas.

1982 Melodiya

Melodiya

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 S10-18773/4 - Jubiliejinis koncertas (Jubilee Concert): Paskutinės Pagonių Apeigos (The Last Pagan Rites) / Du Paukščiai Girių Ūksmėj (Two Birds in the Thick of the Woods): Giedrė Kaukaitė / Vilniaus M. K. Čiurlionio vidurinės meno mokyklos choras dir. Rimantas Zdanavičius

1985 Melodiya

Melodiya

Melodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...

 S10 22333 006 - Lietuvių Kompozitorių Kūriniai Fortepijonui (Lithuanian Composers' Works for Piano) - Sonata. Together with works by V. Lauršas, F. Bajoras & Osvaldas Balakauskas

Osvaldas Balakauskas

Osvaldas Balakauskas is a Lithuanian composer of classical music.- Career :Balakauskas graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical University in 1961. After his mandatory service in the Soviet Army between 1961 and 1964, he studied composition with Boris Lyatoshinsky and M. M. Skorik at Kiev Conservatory...

 : Birutė Vainiūnaitė

1987 Le Chant du Monde

Le Chant du Monde

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 LDC 78037 (5LP set) - 1953-1983: Trente Ans De Musique Sovietique: Paskutinės Pagonių Apeigos (The Last Pagan Rites). This is a repress of Melodiya

Melodiya

Melodiya is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union.-History:It was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya"...

 side 18773 above.

1990 Melodiya

Melodiya

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 S10-29285 009 - Iš Jotvingių Akmens (From the Jatvingian Stone) / Pasaulio Medis (The Tree of the World)

CD

• Bronius Kutavičius 1. Last Pagan Rites, oratorio for chorus, horn & organ. Leopoldas Digrys (Organ) 2. Epitaphium Temporum Pereunti, symphony oratorio for chorus & orchestra Conductor Robertas Šervenikas. CD Ondine
• Lokys the bear Martynas Staškus 2CD Ondine

Further reading

• Raminta Lampsatis: Bronius Kutavicius. A Music of Signs and Changes. Vilnius 1998