Pēteris Vasks

The two pianos introduce the bass motif one after another. Every new entry brings an increase in tempo. Only when they play together, though, is the real 'Vivace unleashed. From then on, it is only in...

Peteris Vasks supports the solo part with a string orchestra accompaniment, employing a warm, sonorous tone that is particularly effective during the slow movements. The two central movements pose exc...

P?teris Vasks composed the original version for violin and piano in 1985. The year 2012 saw the publication of the 'Little summer music' in an arrangement for viola and piano. The six-movement suite t...

In the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, performed for the first time by Michael Faust, Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in 2009, the burlesque middle movement, with its firm dete...

Pēteris Vasks ha tejido con gran maestría este ciclo de canciones a partir de las letras y melodías de cinco canciones populares letonas.

The effective choral setting is based on texts by the Latvian national poet Velta Toma whose works are characterized by her having lived in exile in Canada for decades. At the heart of her Latvian Pra...

Der wirkungsvolle Chorsatz basiert auf Texten der lettischen Nationaldichterin Velta Toma, deren Schaffen durch einen jahrzehntelangen Aufenthalt im kanadischen Exil geprägt ist. Liebessehnsucht, Fami...

En los cuatro movimientos de su Concierto para corno inglés y orquesta, Vasks explora intensamente las diversas características del corno inglés. Al mismo tiempo, la estrecha conexión con la naturalez...

In my adaptation of a work originally composed in 2002 for eight-voice choir, violin and violoncello, I was particularly interested in recreating the tonal spectrum of the three extended vocalises (su...

This work of ca. 12 minutes' duration was composed at the suggestion of the cellist Sol Gabetta in remembrance of the great mystic St. Teresa of Avila. Premiered in 2014, it will surely find its way i...

String Quartet No. 5 consists of two contrasting movements. The first movement, being present, immediately leads to an atmosphere of high emotional tension. The prevailing atmospheric elements of the...

This is the first of two works by the successful Latvian composer for this instrumentation. It was written in 1977 and shows his early compositional style: while freely notated in the beginning, impro...

This little suite is particularly suitable as a first introduction to contemporary music. The outer movements seem to pursue a melismatic dialogue, the middle pieces cover a variety of moods.