Pēteris Vasks

Chorpartitur / Chornoten von Liepa (Der Lindenbaum / The Lime Tree) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB).

Streicherstimmensatz

Streicherstimmensatz

These three folk songs in a charming instrumentation were composed by Vasks 30 years ago. The texts describe nature's flora and fauna, the hard work of mankind and the thoughts of a newlywed woman. Va...

Taking as his theme the use of traditional birds' names as pet names for women, Vasks has created a very poetic piece of music based on a text in the Latvian language. German and English translations...

Weißes Fragment (1978, rev. 2014) - ein Poem für Männerchor (TTBB) auf ein Gedicht des berühmten lettischen Dichters MarisCaklais. Die Farbe Weiß in poetischen, irrealen Bildern in einer faszinierende...

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...

With little effort and deeply rooted in the sonority of his Latvian homeland, Vasks generates enormous emotional power. Again and again the voices - accompanied by strings or organ - layer up from int...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...

Zala ainava (Green Landscape) is the final part of the cycle Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), a collection for piano with the pieces Rudens muzika (Autumn Music), Balta ainava (White Landscape) and Pav...

The two pianos introduce the bass motif one after another. Every new entry brings an increase in tempo. Only when they play together, though, is the real 'Vivace unleashed. From then on, it is only in...

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...

Peteris Vasks has added two pieces to the flute and piano repertoire which are well suited for both domestic music-making and concert-hall performances. Aria is a gentle, meditative dialogue between f...

In the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, performed for the first time by Michael Faust, Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in 2009, the burlesque middle movement, with its firm dete...

Pēteris Vasks skilfully wove this song cycle from the lyrics and melodies of five Latvian folk songs.