DE PROFUNDIS - Raminta Šerkšnytė, composer

DE PROFUNDIS for string orchestra (1998)

Raminta Šerkšnytė De profundis. Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra, conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Raminta Šerkšnytė’s ‘De profundis’ is the calling card of Baltic music.

Gidon Kremer, violinist

PROGRAMME NOTE:

This dramatic music, full of contrasts, reflects a certain world-view of a young person (this is my the first orchestral composition, which was written as the Bachelor’s graduation work). At a young age the life is admitted in an extreme, “severe” way, where euphoria quickly changes to disappointment. One searches for the extraordinary, transcendental experience both in life as well as in art, believing in the profound power of the art sacredness. Therefore the opus was named “from the depths” (Latin –“de profundis”), though making no reckoning of the historical “De profundis” tradition.

Raminta Šerkšnytė

YEAR OF COMPOSITION: 1998

INSTRUMENTATION:

string orchestra: 6.5.4.3.2 (possible to perform by larger string sections)

DURATION: ca. 13′

SCORE (manuscript): please contact raminta.serksnyte@gmail.com

PERFORMING RIGHTS: please contact Mr. Stefan Fragner: fragner@rbartists.at

RELEASES:

CD Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Going for the Impossible – A Portrait. – Deutsche Grammophon, 00289 483 7761, 2019

CD Gidon Kremer – De Profundis. Nonesuch 287228-2, 2010

CD Vortex. Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre LMIPCCD049, 2007

REVIEWS: