Pēteris Vasks: spartiti difficile

Spring Music - The Seasons II (1995)This Spring music forms part of the cycle The Seasons, a collection for piano containing the previously published pieces Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Rudens m...

'Christmas - Peace on Earth' is the leading motive of the String Quartet, a tenet of faith as well as an expression of hope. In the first part of the work Vasks uses themes from a well-known Christmas...

The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, 'Cantabile', 'Musica dolorosa' and 'Voices', is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his lates...

For a number of years the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, famous for his atmospheric compositions for string orchestra like 'Cantabile' and 'Musica dolorosa', worked as a double bass player in various...

Litene is the name of a village in Latvia, which has acquired a significance similar to that of 'Katyn' in Poland. It was in this village that in June 1941 the officer élite of the Latvian army was am...

The beauty of the Latvian landscape inspired many of my works, for it has given me moments of exceptional happiness. The plains are a dominant feature of the Latvian countryside, a place where one can...

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...