Pēteris Vasks: Partituras medio

Peteris Vasks has added two pieces to the flute and piano repertoire which are well suited for both domestic music-making and concert-hall performances. Aria is a gentle, meditative dialogue between f...

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...

In metamophorically dense images, Anna Rancane describes in her poem Latvija the past sufferings and residual wounds of the Latvian people through war and occupation. Peteris Vasks has sensitively set...

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.

Varonis - der Held (1989, rev. 2013) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) - ein kurzes Chorstück in lettischer Sprache auf einen Text von Zinaida Lazda. Moderne Techniken des Chorgesangs ein mischen sich mi...

Peteris Vasks occupies a special position in the circle of Baltic composers. He is not only the most significant and popular composer ever to come out of Latvia; he always speaks to his listeners with...

Peteris Vasks has written compositions for organ again and again, whether original works or arrangements of his own works for strings. He drew his ideal sound image and his inspiration from the famous...

Viatore was originally one of Peteris Vasks's extremely successful works for string orchestra. This newly-published arrangement translates the inexorably shimmering original string sound of the piece...

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For my composition Cosa devo fare, I was inspired when I read the text accompanying the picture cycle Books of Venice by the Latvian artist Ilmars Blumbergs, who died in 2016. The Books of Venice, con...

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...

Gerne überraschte Mutter Teresa ihre Gesprächspartner damit, dass sie ihnen anstelle einer herkömmlichen Visitenkarte ein kleines Kärtchen überreichte, auf dem ein kurzer Text zu lesen war, beginnend...

For my composition Cosa devo fare, I was inspired when I read the text accompanying the picture cycle Books of Venice by the Latvian artist Ilmars Blumbergs, who died in 2016. The Books of Venice, con...

With little effort and deeply rooted in the sonority of his Latvian homeland, Vasks creates a tremendous emotional power. Again and again, the voices - accompanied by strings or organ - are layered wi...