Rain From Golden Clouds

Pianisto biblioteka XIII, Vilnius: Vaga, 1985
Diapason 1. - Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, MILC AT002-1, 2005
LP Mel C10-23669-009, 1987
CD 30 Druskomanijos akimirkų. - Vilnius, Lithuanian Composers' Union LKSCD006-009, 2014

It is probably not Vidmantas Bartulis’s most minimalistic work but is, without a dbout, the most repetitive one. Besides that, it prefigures the later direction of his creative output, where the nostalgia and introspection so characteristic of his earlier work were replaced or supplemented by massive bursts of dramatism. The genesis of the work was determined, in part, by practical considerations - its first performer Gintautas Kėvišas, in preparing for an international piano competition, wished for a technically demanding, virtuosic piece. While the idea behind it, according to the composer, was a ‘vision of all-destroying beauty’ which had then consumed him.

Linas Paulauskis