Kremerata Baltica. Margeris Zarins

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Release Date: 3rd Dec 2021
Catalogue No: LMIC128
Label: SKANI
Length: 71 minutes

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Zariņš: Partita in Baroque Style for mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Work length12:23

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Ieva Parsa (mezzo-soprano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Andris Veismanis

I. Variations

Track length2:45

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II. Galliard

Track length1:31

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III. Intrada and Cadenza

Track length3:34

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IV. Saltarella

Track length1:13

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V. Minstrel

Track length1:10

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VI. Pavane

Track length2:10

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Zariņš: Carmina Antica for mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Work length12:29

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Ieva Parsa (mezzo-soprano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Andris Veismanis

I. Pan with Flute

Track length2:50

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II. Aeolian Harp

Track length1:18

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III. Tragic Monody from Medea

Track length8:21

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Zariņš: Concerto Innocente, Organ Concerto No. 1

Work length15:20

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Aigars Reinis (organ), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Andris Veismanis

I. Allegro gaio

Track length3:52

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II. Andante pensieroso

Track length7:13

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III. Allegro volando

Track length4:15

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Zariņš: Concerto Triptichon, Organ Concerto No. 2

Work length26:17

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Aigars Reinis (organ), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Andris Veismanis

I. Ciborium

Track length10:24

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II. Mensa

Track length9:30

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III. Predella

Track length6:23

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Zariņš: Japanese Miniatures (4)

Work length4:40

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Andris Veismanis

I. Very light, Even, Unhurried

Track length1:28

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II. Adagio

Track length1:55

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III. Andante

Track length0:41

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IV. Allegro vivo

Track length0:36

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In this SKANi Latvian Composers Series album the Grammy award winning Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, mezzosoprano Ieva Parsa, organist Aigars Reinis and conductor Andris Veismanis bring world premiere recordings of Latvian polystylist composer Margeris Zarins (1910-1993): Carmina Antica (1963), Partita in Baroque Style (1963) , Four Japanese Miniatures (1963) and both of his organ concerti Concerto Innocente (1969) and Concerto Tryptichon (1971) that were recorded on the famous E. F. Walcker & Co. organ of the Riga Cathedral. What was current in the field of Latvian literature in 1963? Ojars Vacietis turned thirty years old and had recently published his poem "Einsteiniana"; in addition, this idealistic poet's conflicts with the cultural environment ruled by the totalitarian Soviet regime grew ever deeper. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was also thirty years old and had already published his Tenderness poetry collection and the poem "The Heirs of Stalin". Others, including Vizma Belsevica and Joseph Brodsky, had come to open confrontation with the ruling regime, but the atmosphere was turbulent for many. Linards Tauns a contemporary of Vacietis, Belsevica and Imants Ziedonis who had fled Latvia during the war had suddenly died in New York City, and his likewise very gifted confrre and friend Gunars Salins began compiling Tauns' second collection of poems, Marriage with the City. In 1963, the prolific author Anthony Burgess published his novel Honey for the Bears and the first part of his Enderby series; a year earlier, he had published the novel The Wanting Seed and, of course, his best-known work, A Clockwork Orange. It is possible that the key to interpreting the compositions of Margeris Zarins lies precisely in literature. And not only because Zarins himself was a writer. His music and literature is permeated by many different levels of stylisation, genuine joie de vivre and a grotesque-like sense of humour. He was cheerful, charismatic, lightly ironic, witty; but at the same time, he was also provocative. The grotesque twists and turns in his work reveal the drama of human experience and point to a reality that is harsh, unpredictable and anti-human. Zarins' oeuvre also contains drama and tragedy. And the reasons for this are also found in the deeper connections linked with the historical era and political reality of the 1960ies and 70ies he portrayed.

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