Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. ,,The Nightingale". Notes
Instrumentation:
flute and piano
Year
of publication: 2021
Arrangers:
Vilmantė Kaziulytė and
Kristina Ivanauskaitė-Čiurilienė
Music
engraver: Robertas Budrys
Publisher: Music Information Centre Lithuania
Mikalojus
Konstantinas Čiurlionis works’ arrangements for flute and piano Lakštingala (The Nightingale) were made and proposed to be published by
the members of the ensemble Duo FluPia – flutist Vilmantė Kaziulytė and pianist
Kristina Ivanauskaitė-Čiurilienė.
The arrangements are originally for flute and
piano, but the set may also be performed by violin and piano. It is intended
for anyone, from students to professional musicians, who want to include
Čiurlionis’ music into their repertoire.
The arrangements are based on M. K.
Čiurlionis’ early pieces. Such as Nocturne in F-sharp minor (VL 178) which
include a prevailing pastoral and contemplative mood, subtle shades of harmonic
changes. Also, the pieces written in the summer of 1901 in Druskininkai (VL
186, VL 187) which bear many features of Lithuanian folk songs. The remaining
arrangements are based on works created after studies at the Leipzig
conservatory (VL 239, VL 248, VL 268, VL 270, VL 294). The predominant
chromatic harmonic language and intense polyphonic factures reveal a
considerably more concentrated set of the composer’s emotions.
While setting up the eight miniatures,
Kristina and Vilmantė scrutinised the compilations of the composer’s piano
compositions edited by Jadvyga Čiurlionytė, Vytautas Landsbergis and Darius
Kučinskas.