Onutė Narbutaitė

Centones meae urbi (Patchwork for My City)

Year of composition: 1997
Duration: 72′
Instrumentation: S-Bar-satb-orch(fl-ob-cl-birb-3tp-3tb-perc-str[7.6.4.4.2])
Text: Czesław Miłosz, Adam Mickievicz, Eugenijus Ališanka, M. C. Sarbievius, Moshe Kulbak, Jeremiah's Lamentation
Language: Polish, Lithuanian, Latin, Yiddish, Hebrew

Oratorio

 

CD Vilnius Recording Studio VSCD-063, 2000
CD Lithuanian Musicians' Union LMSMBCD-021, 2001 (excerpt)

 

Premiere performance:
Regina Maciūtė, Ignas Misiūra, Chamber Chor Aidija, conductor Romualdas Gražinis, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robertas Šervenikas, “The Baroque Week”, The Church of St. Catherine, Vilnius, August 9, 1997