Browse: Concertos, Vasks (composer)
This page lists all classical by Peteris Vasks (b.1946), in genre: Concertos.
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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... — More…
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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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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 yearning... — More…
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Vasks: Presence
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Concerto Choice
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Vasks: Distant Light
and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
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Jalbert, Bach, Pärt & Vasks: Music for Violin & Orchestra
Margaret Batjer (violin)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane
Its moods ranging from otherworldly to feisty, Pierre Jalbert’s Violin Concerto has its memorable moments. The real pleasure, though, lies in the Bach, Pärt and Vasks that follow. — More…
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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. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Concerto Choice
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Vasks’s desolate, contemplative soundworld seems all too appropriate for current times. Rowland captures the spirit with aplomb here. — More…
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The emotional core of what in the 1970s would have been called a ‘concept album’ is a gripping performance of Bach’s epic D minor Chaconne…in which Samuelsen exchanges the dogged intensity of... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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Distant Light
RecommendedJS Bach & Vasks: Violin Concertos
Renaud Capuçon (violin & conductor) & Celine Frisch (harpsichord)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
[Vasks] brings out the best in Renaud Capuçon. His grasp of the music's loosely palindromic trajectory is compelling; he meets the technical and emotional challenges of the three strategically... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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