Pēteris Vasks

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...

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...

Ceci est la première de deux oeuvres pour cette formation du célèbre compositeur letton. Elle a été écrite en 1977 et témoigne du style de ses débuts : après une notation libre au commencement, des se...

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...

Dans son poème Latvija, Anna Ranc?ne décrit avec d'intenses images métaphoriques les souffrances et les blessures du peuple letton à travers la guerre et l'occupation. P?teris Vasks a adapté ce texte...

En trois mouvements intitulés Nakts - Lidojums - Nakts, le compositeur letton Peteris Vasks, né en 1946, décrit avec des onomatopées un vol d'oiseaux nocturne entre le crépuscule et l'aube.

Trois pièces ambitieuses du compositeur né en Lettonie, dans son langage caractéristique fait d'éléments traditionnels et d'éléments folkloriques associés à des influences contemporaines.

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...

C'est particulièrement dans sa musique chorale que Peteris Vasks révèle son attachement à sa patrie lettone. La nature, les coutumes, les traditions et l'idée de liberté sont les thèmes centraux de se...

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...