The Vilnius Choir
The Vilnius State Choir (artistic director and principal conductor Professor Povilas Gylys) is one of the most outstanding and renowned professional choirs in Lithuania. Since its establishment in 1970, it has appeared at numerous music festivals, state events and song festivals, implemented many educational programmes and cultural projects, and won a number of international competitions. Together with Lithuanian performers, the choir gives over 50 concerts per year at home and abroad. Eagerly awaited in foreign countries, it has successfully represented Lithuanian choral art in Switzerland, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Georgia and Cuba.
Over the years of its existence, the Vilnius State Choir has recorded 16 CDs and performed over 1,200 large-scale compositions and a capella works, including some of the most important scores by West European composers, examples of sacred and secular music, challenging contemporary choral compositions, light classical genres, and music by Lithuanian composers that occupies an exlusive place in the choir's repertoire.
In 2010, the choir started a new stage in its artistic life: on 1 March it was named the state choir.
Lithuanian Composers
Benjaminas Alekna
Requiem
Valentinas Bagdonas
Peace Symphony
Vytautas Barkauskas
Summer with Čiurlionis
Vidmantas Bartulis
Lithuania
Zita Bružaitė
Der feierliche March
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Cantata "De profundis"
Vladas Jakubėnas
My World, text Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Cantata "De profundis"
Julius Juzeliūnas
Symphony-oratorio "Cantus Magnificat"
V symphony "Songs of Plains"
Jeronimas Kačinskas
Missa in honorem Immaculati Cordis Beatae Mariae Virginis
Juozapas Kairys
Cantata
Requiem
Vytautas Klova
Messe
Vladimiras Konstantinovas
"Requiem Reborn"
Giedrius Kuprevičius
Cantata Pagan Hymns
Bronius Kutavičius
Opera Trush, the Green Bird
Teisutis Makačinas
Poem of the Sun
Cantata Pirčiupis Ashes
Algirdas Martinaitis
Cantata "Gratulationes Lithuaniae"
Vytautas Miškinis
Missa de Angelis
Onutė Narbutaitė
Lapides, flores, nomina et sidera
Juozas Naujalis
Missa in honorem St.Leonardi
Missa in honorem Sacrorum vulnerum Christi
Česlovas Sasnauskas
Requiem
Vladas Švedas
Roses at the Ninth Fort (1978)
Giedrius Svilainis
Cantata
Jonas Tamulionis
Seven Dedications to the Lithuania
Kristina Vasiliauskaitė
Magnificat
Stabat Mater
Juozas Žilevičius
Missa "Salve, Jesu parvule"
Foreign Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet "Singet dem Hern ein neues Lied", BWV 225
Motet "Jesu, meine Freude", BWV 227
Motet "Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir", BWV 228
Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248
Oster-Oratorium "Kommt, eilet und laufet", BWV 249
Messe h-moll, BWV 232
Matthaus-Passion, BWV 244
Ludwig van Beethoven
Messe in C major, op. 86
Fantasy for piano, choir and orchestra
IX Symphonie in D minor
Vincenzo Bellini
Messe
Georges Bizet
Te Deum
Howard Blake
The Song of Saint Francis
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches requiem, op. 45
Nanie, op. 82
Quartette fur vier Solostimmen, op. 31, 64, 92, 112
Anton Bruckner
Messe Nr. 2 e-moll, op. 78
Messe Nr. 3 f-moll, op. 79
Antonio Caldara
Prager Te Deum
E. Chalmey
Messe de L'esperance
Luigi Cherubini
Requiem c-moll
Niels la Cour
Requiem-Kantate
Gaetano Donizetti
Miserere
Théodore Dubois
Les sept paroles du Christ
Antonin Dvorak
Te Deum, op. 103
Messe in D, op. 86
Edwin Geist
Opera "Die Heimkehr des Dionysos"
George Frideric Handel
Oratorium "Der Messias"
Oratorium "Joshua"
Dixit Dominus
Das Alexander-Fest
Joseph Haydn
Messe B-dur Nr. 1
Nelsonmesse
Stabat Mater
Oratorium "Die Jahreszeiten"
Oratorium "Die Schopfung"
Niccolò Jommelli
Requiem
Zoltan Kodaly
Laudes organi
Gustav Mahler
III Symphonie in E flat major
Bohuslav Martinu
Cantata "Polni Mse"
Stanisław Moniuszko
I Litania Ostrobramska
IV Litania Ostrobramska
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa brevis D-dur, KV 194
Missa brevis B-dur, KV 275
Messe C-dur (Kronungsmesse) KV 317
Requiem, KV 626
Litaniae Lauretanae, KV 195
Regina coeli KV 276
Krzysztof Penderecki
Oratorium "Seven Gates of Jerusalem"
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Missa Romana
Sergei Prokofiev
Cantata Alexander Nevsky
Sergei Rachmaninov
Choral Symphony The Bells
Imant Raminsh
Magnificat
Josef Rheinberger
Stabat Mater, op. 138
Cantus Missae in E flat major, op. 109
Gioachino Rossini
Messe Solennelle
Stabat Mater
John Rutter
Requiem
Camille Saint-Saens
Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Noam Scheriff
Psalms of Jerusalem
Franz Schubert
Messe G-dur
Messe Es-dur
Stabat Mater
Robert Schumann
Requiem in D flat major
August Soderman
Katolskmesse
Igor Stravinsky
Opera-oratorio "Oedipus-Rex"
Sergei Tanejev
Cantata Joann Damaskin
Romuald Twardowski
Missa "Regina coeli"
Artemy Vedel
Concerto
Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem
Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria
Magnificat
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Requiem
Ave Maria
Trimitas Orchestra and choir Vilnius Lietuva
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, 25 April 2011
3rd International J.S.Bach Music Festival
Programme 5
Easter Oratorio
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049
Easter Oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra, BWV 249
MUSICA HUMANA Ensemble
Artistic director, conductor and soloist ALGIRDAS VIZGIRDA (flute)
VILNIUS State Choir
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Povilas Gylys
Soloists:
ROBERTAS BEINARIS (oboe)
BALYS VAITKUS (harpsichord)
JULIJA STUPNIANEK (soprano)
JURGA PRAKELYTĖ (mezzo-soprano)
MINDAUGAS ZIMKUS (tenor)
IGNAS MISIŪRA (bass-baritone)
