Pēteris Vasks

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...

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.

Gramata cellam besteht aus zwei sehr kontrastierenden Teilen. Der erste, sehr heftige Teil 'fortissimo' (Allegro, freie Sonatenform) bearbeitet rauhes, aggressives Musikmaterial in ununterbrochener em...

Nel suo poema Latvija, Anna Rancane descrive con immagini dense di metamorfosi le sofferenze passate e le ferite residue del popolo lettone attraverso la guerra e l'occupazione. Peteris Vasks ha messo...

In tre movimenti intitolati Nakts - Lidojums - Nakts, il compositore lettone Peteris Vasks, nato nel 1946, utilizza dispositivi onomatopeici per descrivere un volo notturno di uccelli tra il crepuscol...

Tre impegnativi brani del compositore di origine lettone nel suo caratteristico linguaggio di elementi tradizionali e folk combinati con influenze contemporanee.

Peteris Vasks from Latvia, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra Cantabile, Musica dolorosa and Voices, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music. He was commissioned to co...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

This piece dates back to Vasks' Sturm and Stress period and was premiered in 1977. Freely notated over long passages, it uses both commonly notated passages and symbols as well as clusters. Vasks uses...

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

Peteris Vasks' strong attachment to his Latvian home country shows particularly in his choral music. Nature, customs and traditions as well as the idea of freedom are the central themes of the texts h...

Peteris Vasks' strong attachment to his Latvian home country shows particularly in his choral music. Nature, customs and traditions as well as the idea of freedom are the central themes of the texts h...