The Lithuanian composer Jeronimas Kačinskas (1907–2005) is one of the lost radicals of twentieth-century music. Under the influence of his Czech teacher, Alois Hába, Kačinskas abandoned traditional syntax in favour of an atonal athematicism, whereby the music is in constant evolution, with freely pulsing rhythms and melodic lines that branch forward like tendrils. His lyrical but tightly woven Nonet was well received at the festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in London in 1938; Bartók was one of the fellow composers who congratulated him. When Kačinskas fled Lithuania from the approaching Russians in 1944 – his name was on a death list – he had to abandon almost all his scores and began a new life as church musician in Boston, Mass. Only with the collapse of the Soviet empire could the work be reconstructed – and the composer return home in triumph.
Tracks
Disc 1
1. 1. Largo Maestoso
2. 2. Allegro Moderato
3. 3. Allegro Con Fuoco
4. 4. Andante
5. 1. Andante Grazioso
6. 2. Allegretto
7. 3. Adagio
8. 4. Allegro Con Fuoco
9. Kammer-Fantasie (Für Flöte, Streichquartett Und Klavier) (1981)