Pēteris Vasks

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...

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...

La versione originale per violino e pianoforte è stata composta da Peteris Vasks nel 1985. Nel 2012, Kleine Sommermusik è stata pubblicata in un arrangiamento per viola e pianoforte. La suite in sei m...

Nel Concerto per flauto e orchestra, eseguito in prima assoluta nel 2009 da Michael Faust, Semyon Bychkov e dalla WDR Symphony Orchestra di Colonia, il burlesco movimento centrale, che ricorda Shostak...

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...

Nei quattro movimenti del suo Concerto per cor anglais e orchestra, Vasks esplora intensamente le varie caratteristiche del cor anglais. Allo stesso tempo, lo stretto legame con la natura lettone, pat...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur

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...

Questo lavoro della durata di circa 12 minuti è stato composto su suggerimento del violoncellista Sol Gabetta in ricordo della grande mistica Santa Teresa d'Avila. Eseguita in prima assoluta nel 2014,...

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...

With serious string players this Latvian composer has long been recognized because of his sonorous tonal concepts and his modal, occasionally aleatoric idiom. Works like 'Cantabile per Archi' or 'Musi...