“I think the Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė is one of the best in the Baltic region right now. ”
Sentimental Work: Gidon Kremer on Raminta Šerkšnytė’s „This too shall pass“
Gidon Kremer| The Strad | Feb 2024
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“The main thing to say about De profundis is this: it is ever interesting, I think. And it is complete, hanging together. Scarcely a note is wasted.”
Jay Nordlinger | The New Criterion Vol. 42, No.4 | Dec 2023
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een relaxte Tsjaikovski en overrompelende Weinberg bij het Concertgebouworkest
Frederike Berntsen | Het Parool | 24 Apr 2023
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“Raminta Šerkšnytė’s Musik ruht in nahezu magischer Weise in sich”
Wolfgang Sandner | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No.229 | 2 Oct 2021
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“Alluring music”
SERKSNYTE Orchestral and Choral Works
Richard Whitehouse | Gramophone Vol.97, No.1184 | Feb 2020
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“Šerkšnytė’s music is offering moments of exquisite beauty and quasi mysticism <…>there is something magical about hearing contemporary Lithuanian music.”
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Claire Jackson | BBC Music Magazine | 23 Jan 2020
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“It is so unusual, so beautiful and so moving that it could, long term, prove to be a milestone in bringing the riches of Lithuanian and Baltic music to a wider audience.”
Unusual and beautiful: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the music of Raminta Šerkšnytė
Anne Ozorio | Opera Today | 17 Jan 2020
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“Šerkšnytė’s blend of past evocations and future imaginings combined to present something intoxicatingly heartfelt.”
Šerkšnytė’s Songs of Sunset and Dawn intoxicates at the Baltic Sea Festival
Simon Cummings | Bachtrack | 3 Sep 2018
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“Fires- a compelling quarter-hour work.”
A Rising Conductor Makes Her New York Debut
James R.Oestreich | The New York Times | 27 Sep 2016
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“It is not a very frequent occurrence that the works of composers making their debut are so mature that they early on enter the living repertoire.”
Raminta Šerkšnytė’s ‘Icebreakers’ in Vilnius, Tongyeong, Katowice, Detroit and Lucerne
Music Information Centre Lithuania | 3 March 2016
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“An individual language is created out of foreign words, a dramatic act out of separate emotions, Baltic mysticism out of melancholia.”
Gidon Kremer und Komponistin Raminta Serksnyte in München
Helmut Mauró | Süddeutche Zeitung | 23 Jan 2009
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“The audience is invited to wander into spheres of exalted poetry and music.”
Raminta Šerkšnytė: Songs of Sunset and Dawn
Linas Paulauskis | Lithuanian Music Link No.14 | Apr- Sept 2007
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“The maximum creativity is in nature” – with this in mind, Raminta has repeatedly drawn inspiration from its inexhaustible.”
Raminta Šerkšnytė in the Vortex of Natural Cycles
Veronika Janatjeva | Lithuanian Music Link No.10 | 2005
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“Music of dark coloration and hint of mystery.”
Hints of Jazz, Minimalism and Mystery From Abroad
Allan Kozinn | The New York Times | 20 Jun 2005