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World Premiere Recording! Lithuanian pianist and composer Vytautas Bacevi?ius (1905-70) is one of the undiscovered radicals of the twentieth century. The early works on this CD show him finding his voice, as in the First Piano Concerto (with its echoes of Scriabin) and the Poème électrique, cast in the "machinist" aesthetic in vogue in the 1920s and '30s. The programmatic Second Symphony depicts the onset of the Second World War which Bacevi?ius, desperately anxious about his family in Poland and Lithuania, followed from his exile in the New World. The late Sixth Symphony and Graphique, which show a kaleidoscopic, pointillist use of orchestral color, boiling with violent energy, point to an entirely new musical language.