Litauen-Nytt - Women's choir Liepos

The Liepos Women's Choir of Vilnius, Lithuania

Not long time ago in Vilnius there was a girl's choir called the Liepaites (the Young Lime-tree Girls).
But from autumn 1989 girls had become adults and appeared as an independent women's choir the Liepos (the Lime-tree Women). (Today other young girls are singing in the Liepaites.) The Liepos' Art Manager and Conductor is Mrs Audronė Zupkauskienė-Steponavičiūtė, pianist is Mrs Henrika Seckuviene and Choir Manager Mrs Stefanija Badariene.

Liepos at 1998 World Choir's Championship in Great Britain (2nd place)

The Liepos is often touring in Lithuania, in music halls as well as in churches. The repertioar is consisting from very different music – from Gregorian chorals to modern opuses. On the program is now these themes:

Art manager and Conductor, Mrs Audrone Steponaviciute-Zupkauskiene

Liepos' conductor Mrs Audronė
Zupkauskienė-Steponavičiūtė

The cycle «Ave Maria»
French choir music
G P da Palestrina and O di Lasso's compositions (to his 400 years' memorial)
Renesance epoch's choir music
Lithuanian female composers' music for Women's choirs

Many of Liepos' presentations are taped at Lithuanian radio stations – from folk songs, to modern compositions, foreign miniatures, G P da Palestrina's Magnificat, J Tamulionis' Mess op 222 and other.

Liepos is performing in the Edvard Grieg Hall, Bergen (1995)
Liepos performing in the Edvard Grieg Hall at Bergen, Norway (1995)

The choir is often participating at International choir's competitions and festivals. So far they have won several prices. Just take a look at this impressing list:

1992 and 1995 – International S Simkus Choir's Competition in Klaipeda, Lithuania (1st and 3rd places)
1994 – International Women's Choir Festival in Reims, France and French Poliphonic Music Festival at Aix-en-Provence, France
1997 – XXXII International Choir Festival in Miedzyzdra, Poland (2nd place and Silver Medal)
1997 – International F. Schubert Choir Competition in Vienna, Austria
1998 – International Choir Competition in Llangollene (Wales) (2nd place)

In 1995 Liepos was touring West Norway

Repertoire
Lithuanian Folk Music
Music by Lithuanian composers
Music by foreign composers
CYCLES
"Ave Maria"
Christmas Music
Entertainment Music

Lithuanian Folk Music

1. Stasys Simkus: "Uzia girele"
2. Stasys Simkus: "Skamba skamba kankliai"
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: "Ar vejai pute"
4. Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: "Kelk, dukrele"
5. Eduardas Balsys: "Plaukia antele"
6. Mindaugas Urbaitis: "Kad as tureciau"
7. Jonas Tamulionis: "Greitakalbes"
8. Jonas Tamulionis: "Butu grazus berneliai"
9. Arturas Novikas: "Sodauto"
10. Zigmas Virksas: "Oi ant kalno"
11. Kristina Vasiliauskaite: "Vejas lapa nukrete"
12. Kristina Vasiliauskaite: "Ein bernelis per laukeli"
13. Juozas Indra: "As anyta netikus buvau"
14. Leonas Povilaitis: "Kermosius"
15. Konradas Kaveckas: "Oi tai dyvai"

Music by Lithuanian composers

1. Anatolijus Lapinskas: "Tevyne" with text by Justinas Marcinkevicius
2. Jonas Tamulionis: "Pieva motinos pilnoji" with text by Justinas Marcinkevicius.
3. Jonas Tamulionis: "Liepu giedojimai" with text by Justinas Marcinkevicius
4. Jonas Tamulionis: "Laudes" with text by V. Radvanas Lietuvis
5. Jonas Tamulionis: Missa op. 222.
6. Laimis Vilkoncius: "Nepaliesk mano ranku" with text by Vytautas Onaicis
7 Alvidas Remesa: "Vieversio malda" with text by Leonardas Gutauskas
8 Alvidas Remesa: "Choralas Sausio 13-ai" ("Loreta")
9. Alvida Remesa: "Missa Brevis"
10. Vytdutas Montvilas: "Saule teka" with text by
Mykolas Karciauskas
11. Dalia Kairaityte: "Trys miniatiuros":
"Rudiens akimirka" with text by Justinas
Marcinkevicius, "Puga" with text by herself and "Pavasario naktis" with text by herself
12. Dalia Kairaityte: "Akimirkos'' with text by
Antanas A. Jonynas: "Ruduo", "Lietus", "Taip tylu", "O kas dabar" and "Vakaras"
13. Onute Narbutaite: "Vasara" with text by herself
14. Onute Narbutaite: "Salia mamos" with text by herself
15. Mindaugas Urbaitis: "Diptikas" with text by Justinas Marcinkevicius
16. Bronius Kutavicius: "Idile" with text by Antanas Strazdas
17. Ceslovas Sasnauskas: "Kur bega Sesupe" with text by Maironis
18. Ceslovas Sasnauskas: "Aspirationes"
19. Juozas Naujalis: "Lietuva brangi" with text by Maironis
20. Galina Saviniene: "Lietuva" with text by Justinas Marcinkevicius
21 Audrone Zigaityte: "Seneles pasaka" with text by Salomeja Neris
22. Audrone Zigaityte: "Druskininku pasaka" with text by Juozas Nekrosius: "Ciurlionio pasaka'', "Raigardas", "Ratnycele" and "Misko akordai"
Music by foreign composers
1. Josquin Des Prez: "ln te Domine Speravi"
2. Tomas Luis de Victoria: "Duo Seraphim"
3. Felice Anerio: "Christus factus est"
4. Baltasare Donati: "Qui la gaglarda"
5. Rugiero Giovalneli: "Di vaghe fila d'oro"
6. Orlando di Lasso: "Tik-tak"
7. Georg Händel: "Dignare"
8. Georg Händel: "Largo" ( from the opera "Xerxes")
9. Georg Händel: "Hallelujah" ( from "Messiah")
10. Christopher Yavelow: "Dona nohis pacem"
11. Einojuhani Rautavaara: "Siuita" with text by Federico Garcia Lorca
12. Johan Brahms: "Der Broutogam" with text by J.
Eichendorf
13. Johan Brahms: "Märznacht" with text by Ludwig Uhland

14. Robert Schuman: "The house at the Sea" with text by K. Alemasov
15 . Eurico Carraoatoso: "O magnum misteriuim"
16. György Ligeti: "Erdobe, erdobe"
17. Z. Vekerlen: "Egzode-menuetas" with text by Favaro
18. Hans Leo Hasler: "Dance"
19. E. Vidman: Madrigal
20. Claudio Monteverdi: "La sciatemi morire"
21. Edvard Grieg: "Melancholy"
22. Edvard Grieg: "Autumn Storm"
23. Cesar Franck: "Panis angelicus"
24. Henk Badings: "Kyrie eleison"
25. Pierre Villette: "O quam suavis est"
26. J. Luciuk: "Benedic anima mea Domino" and
"Afferte Domino"
27. M. Sokolowski: "Wyrzundzaj Sie" (Kurpiovska
melodia ludowa)
28. Andrzej Koszewski: "Zdrowas Krolewno
Wyborna"
29. T. Sygietynski: "Tramblanka"
30. Stanislaw Moniuszko: Mess
31. Francis Poulenc: "Litanies a la Vierge Noire"
32. Franz Schubert: "Kyrie" from Mess in Es Major
33. Franz Schubert: "Die Nacht" with text by F. A.
Krummacher
34. Franz Schubert: "Am Brunne vor dem Tore"
("Linden") with text by Wilhelm Muller
35. Franz Schubert: "Got in der Natur" with text by Gedicht von Gleim
36 . Franz Schubert: "Deutsche Messe"
37. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Regina coeli"
38. Henry Pursel: "Come ye sons of Art"
39. Sergej Rachmaninov: Two parts from "Vigilija":
"Come, let us bow" and "Girl, God's birthgiver, let us Joy"
40. Sergej Rachmaninov: "Spring Water" with text by
F. Tutchev
41. Vladimir Salmanov: "Spring" with text by I. Bunin
42. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: "Stabat Mater"
43. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: "Magnificat"
44. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: "Rex virtutis"
45. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: "Benedictus"
46. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Three coins:
1. Veni, Domine, 2. Laudate, pueri and 3. Dominika

CYCLES

"Ave Maria"

1. Johan Sebastian Bach: Charl Gounod
2. Robert Schumann
3. Javier Busto
4. Gulio Caccini
5. Johannes Brahms
6. Zoltan Kodaly
7. Franz Schubert
8. Jaques Arcadelt
9. Vincente Goicoechea
10. Johann Friedrich Burgmüller
11. Jurgis Juozapaitis
12. Ceslovas Sasnauskas

Christmas Music
1. German Folk song - "Joy on Earth and Heaven Dome"
2. 15th cent. German Folk melody arr. by F. Wagner:
"Joseph, my dear Joseph"
3. J. S. Franck: "Holy night"
4. L. Schröter: "Christian, enjoy"
5. J. F. Reichardt: "Holy night"
6. Michael Praetorius: "The big bell echo"
7. Michael Praetorius: "A child is born in Bethlehem"
8. Michael Praetorius: "From the high Heaven"
9. Franz Gruber: "Silent Night"
10. Z. Simutis: "O, greiciau, greiciau"
11. Juozas Naujalis: "Sveikas, Jezau gimusis"
12. Irvin Berlin: "White Christmas"

Entertainment Music
1. G. Kern: "Smoke"
2. R. M. Stuits: "The sweetest story ever told"
3. H. Y. Sayers: "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-re"
4. G. Podelskis: "Brass Band"

The French composer Pierre Villette is listning his own music

performed by the Liepos

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Translation (c) by Jan S. Krogh, The Association Norway Lithuania, Oslo

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