Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė
Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė is one of the most prominent Lithuanian pianists-concertmasters of our time. She has performed together with almost all famous Lithuanian vocalists and also with some international musicians. The pianist has deeply matured skills in interpretation: the perfect sound of the instrument and the duo of the voice and the instrument.
Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė was born in 1930, Anykščiai. In 1938, only eight years old, she was already on the stage: she was accompanying to the male voice choir of her home town. In 1948 she graduated from the Gymnasium for Girls in Panevėžys; she also studied at the Music School of Panevėžys. In 1948 – 49 she studied part time at the Kaunas Conservatoire. While still a student she accompanied famous soloists: Aleksandra Staškevičiūtė and Juozas Babravičius.
In 1949 deportation to Siberia interrupted the pianist’s studies and concerts. She lived in exile for almost nine years (Olkhon Island, the Baikal, Zima, Irkutsk and Sverdlovsk). However, even there she did not stop studying music: in 1950 – 52 she studied at the Music School of Irkutsk, in 1954 –1957, at the Sverdlovsk Conservatoire. After having returned to Lithuania, she studied piano at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire with Prof. Balys Dvarionas in 1957 – 59; she graduated with distinction.
In 1958 – 1985, Ručytė-Landsbergienė worked as an accompanist at the Lithuanian Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre helping the soloists to prepare their roles in all productions. Since 1989 she has been teaching piano and accompanying at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Since 1990, she has been Associated Professor at the LMTA and Professor, since 1999.
The pianist has given over 400 concerts with various soloists: Virgilijus Noreika, Gražina Apanavičiūtė, Antanas Kučingis, Vaclovas Daunoras, Giedrė Kaukaitė, Regina Maciūtė, Judita Leitaitė, Regina Tumalevičiūtė, Birutė Almonaitytė, Bronius Tamašauskas, Gintarė Skerytė, Algirdas Janutas, German singer Peter Schreier and others. She has given concerts in Sweden, Germany, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, USA, Australia and former USSR. She has recorded ten records.
Lithuanian Composers
Feliksas Bajoras
Suite of Stories
The Birch Has Grown
I have Ridden All Day
Deaf Forest (Prayer)
Rearing Mother
Ritaujoja, Sister
Lullaby
Where Is the Father's Granary
Diptych
Oh, My God
Animals and People
Cherry-tree
Why?
Triptych
Vytautas Barkauskas
Far, far beyond the Nemunelis, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Justinas Bašinskas
The Rivulet Flows
Vocal cycle „Owl's Hour”
Algimantas Bražinskas
Lament and Sacrifice
Konstancija Brundzaitė
Two laments
M. Bukša
Loneliness again
Balys Dvarionas
Pine-trees
A Starlet
Juozas Gruodis
Spells
The Sea and the Girls
Feather-brain
Spring Night in Berlin
Eternal Piligrim
Lilacs
Whimsey
In the Autumn stillness
Mother-in-law's song, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Silence
Cornflowers
Poppies
The Guelder-Rose Grew
Tonight
It Is So Quiet All Around, L.Gira
Love
Why Such Longing Here
I Had a Daydream
Reviving
Bard
I will Blossom like the Wormwood
Oh, upon the Hill (Ulijona), folk song
Juozas Indra
Your Song
Jurgis Juozapaitis
”I will Blossom like the Wormwood”, vocal cycle
Vytautas Jurgutis
A Soldier's letters
Vocal cycle „Ciurlionis Sketchbook”
Julius Juzeliūnas
Eight Lithuanian Folk Sutartines
Aleksandras Kačanauskas
In the windrows
How Lovely
Juozas Karosas
I wandered the birch grove, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Mikas Petrauskas
Clearing the forest, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Stasys Šimkus
Father went to the green forest, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Is That Hut Mossgrown
Anatolijus Šenderovas
Songs of Shulamith
Four Poems of Sigitas Geda
Juozas Tallat-Kelpša
Worrying mother, harmonization of Lithuanian folk song
Not the speckled little falcons
Voice and Piano
Leonard Bernstein
„Maria"
Johannes Brahms
„Den blaues Augen"
„Am Sontagmorgen"
„Regenlied"
„Dort in den Weiden"
„Madchenlied"
„Vergebliches Standchen"
„Wie Melodien zieht es mir"
Ernest Chausson
Moths, words by Theophile Gautier
Hebe
Chanson perpetuelle
Le Temps des lilas
Salvatore D'Esposito
„Anema e core"
Guy D'Hardelot
”Why?”
Claude Debussy
The Son of Spring
Gabriel Faure
The butterfly and the violet, words by Victor Hugo
Reinhold Glier
Longing for Love, words by M.Lochvicka
Joseph Haydn
Sailors Song, words by A.Hunter
Jules Massenet
Charlotte's letter scene and the aria from the opera "Werther"
Olivier Messiaen
”Harawi, Chant d'Amour et de Mort”
Modest Moussorgsky
The children's room, words by Modest Moussorgsky
Gopak, words by Taras Shevchenko
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Despina's aria from the opera "Cosi fan tutte "
Joaquin Nin
Canto andalus. El Vivo, words anonym
„Granadina"
„Las Machas Madrilenas"
Francis Poulenc
"Fleurs" from the song cycle "Fiancailles pour rire"
Sergei Rachmaninov
I fell in love with my sadness, words by Taras Shevchenko
Maurice Ravel
Deux melodies hebraiques
Franz Schubert
Salve Regina
Love's messenger, words by Ludwig Relstab
Winterreise, vocal cycle, words by Wilhelm Muller
Aleksandr Spendiarov
The rose
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Had I known, words by Aleksey Tolstoy
On the yellowing fields, words by Aleksey Tolstoy
Giuseppe Verdi
Procida's aria from the opera "I vespri Siciliani"
Solo Works
Feliksas Bajoras
Variations for Piano based on the folk song Mother Raised Me
Works for Cello and Piano
Franz Schubert
Sonata „Arpeggione”
Works for Violin and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 5, in F Major, op. 24
J.Gruodis Poppies
B. Dvarionas Pušys // Pine-trees
Francesco Paolo Tosti - La Serenata
Concert at the Olivier Messiaen festival, Lithuanian National Philharmonic, 12 02 1998
Olivier Messiaen ”Harawi, Chant d'Amour et de Mort”
1. La ville qui dormait, toi
2. Bonjour toi, colombe verte
3. Montagnes
4. Doundou Tchil
5. L'Amour de Piroutcha
6. Repetition planetaire
7. Adeu
8. Syllabes
9. L'escalier redit, gestes du soleil
10. Amour, oiseau d'etoile
11. Katchi katchi les etoiles
12. Dans le noirRegina Maciute - soprano
