Pēteris Vasks: Intermediate Sheet Music

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.

In metamophorically dense images, Anna Rancane describes in her poem Latvija the past sufferings and residual wounds of the Latvian people through war and occupation. Peteris Vasks has sensitively set...

Three challenging pieces by the Latvian-born composer, in his characteristic idiom of traditional and folk elements incorporated with contemporary influences.

P?teris Vasks composed this cycle for women's choir on poems by his Latvian compatriot Vitauts ??d?ns. The lyrics are taken from the poetry collections Blizzard in the Rye of 1971 and The Birch Bark P...

Poem für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) Text von M?ris Caklais Chorpartitur - gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) - lettisch

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...

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 komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an sein Vaterland Litauen. Durch die Aussprachhi...

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...

It is particularly the choral music of Peteris Vasks that reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of hi...

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...

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...

Baltâ ainava - White Landscape (Winter)' belongs to the seasonal pieces of the nature-loving Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. Everything is white. The new year begins. It is a quiet meditation, a great...

In the subtitle, the composer calls the piece 'Three looks into the infinity of time'. Tris skatieni is an extraordinary work in every respect. It has no fixed instrumentation, the instruments can be...