Tapestries on The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp

Tapestries appears on the article The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 by Peter Margasak :

“Lithuanian composer Justina Repečkaitė presents a remarkable survey of the first decade of her work as a composer, each of its eight works offering dizzyingly varied sides of her music. The earliest work here is the opener “Chartres,” written while she was still in school in 2012; from the outset, Repečkaitė’s abilities were clear. The orchestrations are superb—a mix of taut sustained tones, stabbing rhythms, and needling harmonic intensity. Six years later, we can hear something radically different and more personal: “Incantare” is a solo flute piece in which Vytenis Gurstis plays against a wild and raw churn, carefully mapped out vocal fry, overtone singing, and noise, the performer adding additional sibilance with his own vocalizations. Arash Yazdani’s Ensemble for New Music Tallinn play a new adaptation of “Tapisserie,” a dark, dynamic, and tightly wound translation of weaving patterns in sound, its intensely asymmetric movement rejecting machine-age perfection. The 2020 piece “Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus” was written for pianist Marta Finkelštein during the pandemic, but when it came to time record the piece, the pair agreed to update it. The composer brought in four transducers to fill the space with a sonic approximation of starlings, through the rattling and buzzing of the instrument. Additionally, electronic triggers add warped recordings of birdsong as systematic reverb on specific piano notes. Beyond the trippy musicality is the composer’s interest in how the mass quietude imparted by the early days of the pandemic gave urban wildlife a new vocal platform. Tapestries is stunning, but I can’t wait to hear how Repečkaitė builds on it by paring down.”