Pēteris Vasks: spartiti medio

Landschaften der ausgebrannten Erde.

Peteris Vasks ha arricchito la letteratura per flauto e pianoforte con due brani adatti sia all'esecuzione domestica che a quella in sala da concerto. L'"Aria" è un dialogo dolce e meditativo tra flau...

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...

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...

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 komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an die Landschaft seines Heimatlandes Litauen: W...

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...