Portrait album Tapestries (2026)
Music Information Centre Lithuania will release Justina Repečkaitė’s first album, Tapestries, in spring 2026. The album brings together works composed between 2012 and 2024, reflecting key stages of the composer’s professional journey. It encompasses recordings made in the Baltic States, France, and Germany, and will be released in both physical and digital formats.
The booklet visuals, which delve into the composer’s inspirations, were created by the celebrated Lithuanian creator of photo-manipulations artist and designer Liudas Parulskis. The accompanying text was written by the composer.
Justina Repečkaitė at Ircam, 2024. Photo by Kristijonas Našlėnas.
Performers featured on the album include:
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (cond. Clément Power),
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (cond. Arash Yazdani),
Sinfonietta Rīga (cond. Normunds Šnē),
Les Pages of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (cond. Clément Buonomo),
with the IRCAM team,
and soloists Patrick Wibart (serpent), Kanae Mizobuchi (soprano), Mathilde Comoy (trombone), Vytenis Gurstis (flute) and Marta Finkelštein (piano).
Mastering: Arūnas Zujus.
From the Tapestries (2026) album, Justina Repečkaitė’s composition La Muë (2024), co-commissioned by IRCAM and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles for serpent, children’s choir, and electronics, was broadcast on France Musique on Sunday, February 23, 2026 in the program Le Concert du soir (host Arnaud Merlin), within the section Nouveautés du disque. Listen here.
““Her works are woven with cold and white polyphonies. Like Tapisserie (2015), which presents itself as a complex web of lines stretched to the extreme, as if stretched towards an impossible resolution, but whose relationships and discrepancies – a heritage of medieval music? – are governed by internal mathematics. And with only one transverse flute (Incantare, 2018), she builds a world crowded with terrifying monsters. Do not be fooled by appearances: in this smart thirty-something, with a wise and discreet demeanour, anguish lurks at every corner of the note.””
The release of the album by Music Information Centre Lithuania is sponsored by:
