Vasks
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Vasks: Musica dolorosa, Musica serena, Musica Appassionata & Klātbūtne
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Composer of the Year
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Music, moreover, that inevitably speaks to the heart of the Latvian Radio Choir, which gives of its best under Sigvards Klava. With its spacious if focused sound and detailed notes from Olivier... —
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Sidorova’s playing is superbly judged, melding seamlessly with a range of instrumentals, but never dominating as an adversary…Sensitively accompanied by Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Concerto Choice
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The performance from these Latvian musicians is as soulful as could be imagined...[Plainscapes] – with exquisite gradations of vibrato from the two strings – is invested with rare space, profundity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... —
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Special offer. Vasks: Oboe Concerto
Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Cast as a ‘Morning’ and ‘Evening Pastorale’ separated by a ‘Scherzando’, [the Oboe Concerto is] a kind of gentle day-in-a-rural-life and is beautifully played by soloist Albrecht Mayer. —
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Special offer. Pēteris Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Ilze Reine (organ)
Latvian Radio Choir & Sinfonietta Riga, Sigvards Kļava
At times impassioned, at times hauntingly still, Vasks’s atmospheric choral world is brilliantly showcased in performances that are as exquisitely balanced as they are perfectly paced. A stunning... —
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Whether down to the commanding presence of the music itself, Apkalna's powerful interpretations, Ventspils Concert Hall's richly resonant acoustics, the sheer force and weight of the impressive... —
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Special offer. Max Richter: Recomposed - The Four Seasons, Vasks, Pärt
Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer
Humphreys mines the repetitive melodies for subtelties of colour, rather than drama. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Concerto Choice
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This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic... —
