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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... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2020 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Vasks’s desolate, contemplative soundworld seems all too appropriate for current times. Rowland captures the spirit with aplomb here. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Peteris Vask's music is a beguiling mixture, poised somewhere on a tightrope between Sibelius and Arvo Pärt… the three pieces on this new release all exude beautiful and sometimes ravishing sounds.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this, the second volume from Ondine, focuses on superb performances by the Latvian Radio Choir of the secular side of his trance-inducing, largely homophonic four-part compositions, regarded... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…