By his own admission, emotion is central to the music of Peteris Vasks, though his intense outpourings are far from amorphous or undisciplined rhapsodies. Rather, his most passionate works are tempered by an appreciation of tradition and a practical awareness of instrumental techniques, timbres, and orchestral textures. Neo-Romanticism plainly ...
Nice coupling, eh? Kurt Weill's twisted neo-Classical Concerto for violin and winds with its crooked melodies, broken harmonies, and bent sensuality does go extremely well with Peteris Vasks oddly neo-Romantic Concerto for violin and strings with its sometimes mellow, other times abrasive melodies, its sometimes warm other times harsh harmonies, ...
Latvian composer Peteris Vasks seems to have his finger placed firmly on the pulse of an aspect of postmodern European classical music that goes right to the heart of Europe's people. Vasks has said "I have always dreamt that my music would be heard where people were unhappy: in hospitals and prisons, in crowded trains and buses. My music is ...
A member of Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road Ensemble and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right, virtuoso pianist Joel Fan surveys the international keyboard repertoire in this 2006 collection and reveals his versatility in many styles, often with bravura playing. World Keys, Fan's debut album on Reference, is a survey of musical approaches ...
By his own admission, emotion is central to the music of Peteris Vasks, though his intense outpourings are far from amorphous or undisciplined rhapsodies. Rather, his most passionate works are tempered by an appreciation of tradition and a practical awareness of instrumental techniques, timbres, and orchestral textures. Neo-Romanticism plainly ...
Peteris Vasks (1946), Latvia's most prominent composer, was the son of a Baptist minister, and while he always felt a strong affinity for sacred music, he didn't feel free to express it through vocal music since it would never have been allowed to be performed under the Communist regime. Since the early '90s, he has turned his attention more and ...
Kamer... is a youth choir, but you'd never guess that by listening; the members sing with all the sophistication and maturity of the finest international vocal ensembles, performing works of daunting technical and musical demands. The repertoire recorded here, all by Latvian composers, requires extended vocal techniques, microtonal singing, the ...
At the climaxes of both these chamber works by Latvian composer Péteris Vasks are love songs. The eight-movement piano trio called Episodi e Canto perpetuo from 1985 reaches its peak with the achingly beautiful Canto perpetuo while the six-movement Quartet for piano from 2000-2001 achieves its apogee in the searingly effective Canto principale. ...
At the climaxes of both these chamber works by Latvian composer Péteris Vasks are love songs. The eight-movement piano trio called Episodi e Canto perpetuo from 1985 reaches its peak with the achingly beautiful Canto perpetuo while the six-movement Quartet for piano from 2000-2001 achieves its apogee in the searingly effective Canto principale. ...
The Latvian Radio Choir's CD of contemplative choral music is largely devoted to the work of Gavin Bryars, including two of his larger pieces, Glorious Hill and Cadman Requiem. It also includes several of Bryars' shorter works, thirteenth century chant, and music by Latvian composers Peteris Vasks and Eriks Esenvalds. The Esenvalds piece is ...
Talivaldis Deksnis devotes this recital to the organ music of his fellow Latvian, composer Peteris Vasks. Vasks is frequently grouped with the composers referred to as "holy minimalists" -- Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli -- and his work does bear some resemblance to that of Górecki and Kancheli in its prevailing hushed ...
Much of the music of Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is characterized by the juxtaposition of extremes: violent and ethereal, impetuous and reserved, strictly metered and largely improvisatory. Such is also the case with this powerful collection of works with cello on the Hanssler Classics label. Performed by cellist David Geringas (a student of ...
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