Pēteris Vasks

Organ and choir take turns in appearing: Three passages on the majestic organ in a vigorous D minor are answered by the choir with a meditative part each. A final interlude on the organ is followed by...

It is particularly in his choral music that Peteris Vasks reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of th...

Pēteris Vasks (16 de abril de 1946 en Aizpute) es un compositor letón. Actualmente vive como compositor independiente en Riga y es uno de los compositores más conocidos de los Estados de la antigua Un...

Taking as his theme the use of traditional birds' names as pet names for women, Vasks has created a very poetic piece of music based on a text in the Latvian language. German and English translations...

Also available for a-cappella choir apart from the versions with piano or string orchestra: the Prayer for Peace of Saint Mother Teresa in a simple, densely woven musical setting as a romantic elegy....

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an die Landschaft seines Heimatlandes Litauen: W...

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an sein Vaterland Litauen. Durch die Aussprachhi...

Vasks's popular Missa is now available in his original setting for SATB a cappella choir. The work, which runs for about half an hour, can also be performed with organ or string orchestra.

Choral music has always played a major role in the work of the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. In this piece, but also in his numerous instrumental works, themes such as home, nature, customs and trad...

Chorpartitur / Chornoten von Liepa (Der Lindenbaum / The Lime Tree) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB).

Streicherstimmensatz

These three folk songs in a charming instrumentation were composed by Vasks 30 years ago. The texts describe nature's flora and fauna, the hard work of mankind and the thoughts of a newlywed woman. Va...

Taking as his theme the use of traditional birds' names as pet names for women, Vasks has created a very poetic piece of music based on a text in the Latvian language. German and English translations...

Weißes Fragment (1978, rev. 2014) - ein Poem für Männerchor (TTBB) auf ein Gedicht des berühmten lettischen Dichters MarisCaklais. Die Farbe Weiß in poetischen, irrealen Bildern in einer faszinierende...

Mother Teresa liked to surprise people she met by giving them a small card printed with five concise sentences instead of a calling card. The brief text on the card beginning with the line 'The fruit...

Con poco esfuerzo y profundamente arraigado en la sonoridad de su patria letona, Vasks genera una enorme fuerza emocional. Una y otra vez, las voces -acompañadas por cuerdas u órgano- se superponen de...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...