Šarūnas Nakas

Ricercars

Year of composition: 1985
Duration: 13′
Instrumentation: gui-2vn-va-prep pf-synth-perc

CD Lithuanian Music in Context II. Landscapes of Minimalism. - Vilnius, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre LMIPCCD067-068, 2011


In the work of Šarūnas Nakas, it is one of a few pieces, in which he has attempted to combine two opposite directions of his quest for the utopian sound worlds: intense, sometimes to the point of being violent, complex “soundscrapers,” and dreamy, euphonic, nearly soporific soundscapes. The composer once described it as a certain “allegory of rock opera,” conveyed by means of instrumental music (that is, by using acoustic and electronic instruments plus effects).

Linas Paulauskis