Jurgis Juozapaitis's lyrics & chords

"I always found it most interesting to watch the orchestra and to guess at the secret of its sound." - says Jurgis Juozapaitis. Even in his early works, the composer - who made his name with a number of orchestral pieces (the symphonies Rex, 1973, and Zodiacus, 1977) - focused on sound colour. The evolution of his musical style in the 1970s reveals the impact of dodecaphonic, quarter tone, and aleatoric music; in the 1980s-90s, alongside expressive atonal works, Juozapaitis was also writing pieces akin to the aesthetics of romanticism and minim...read more