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Monday, January 21, 2019

Pēteris Vasks - Sala; Musica appassionata; Credo (Atvars Lakstīgala)


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Composer: Pēteris Vasks
  1. Sala, symphonic elegy for orchestra
  2. Musica appassionata per orchestra d'archi
  3. Credo per orchestra

Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Atvars Lakstīgala, conductor

Date: 2015
Label: Wergo


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Review

I must admit that I don’t often check releases on the Wergo label – they tend to be too avant-garde for my liking – but the music of Vasks is a different matter entirely and the price being asked by emusic.com is absurdly inexpensive for the work of a composer who resists gimmicks, believing in ‘art for mankind’ rather than ‘art for art’s sake’.  With a strong spiritual element, the nearest analogues that I can suggest are Arvo Pärt and John Tavener.  It’s not ‘easy’ music and it’s not imitative of the past but it does stand in a clear line of descent from the mainstream.

These are all first recordings, so there’s no benchmark, but the performances, from Vasks’ native Latvia, make an excellent case for the music.

-- Brian Wilson, MusicWeb International

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Pēteris Vasks (born 16 April 1946 in Aizpute, Latvia) is a Latvian composer. He trained as a violinist and a double-bass player and played in several Latvian orchestras before entering the State Conservatory in Vilnius in Lithuania to study composition with Valentin Utkin. He started to become known outside Latvia in the 1990s, when Gidon Kremer started championing his works and now is one of the most influential and praised European contemporary composers. Vasks's compositions incorporate archaic, folklore elements from Latvian music with the language of contemporary music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93teris_Vasks
https://en.schott-music.com/shop/autoren/peteris-vasks

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Atvars Lakstīgala is Latvian conductor. He studied with Lutz Koehler at the Berlin University of the Arts, and with Arvids Klisans and Imants Resnis at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. From 1997-2009, as a French horn player, Lakstīgala played in many local and international professional and youth orchestras, performing as a soloist in concertos as well as taking part in chamber music ensembles. He was chief conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra from January of 2010, till July of 2017. Lakstīgala  has directed several highly acclaimed recordings for labels including Wergo, Odradek, Danacord and Skani.
https://atvars-lakstigala.com/

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