SKANI
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[The Ivanov is] a powerful, brooding work…while the performance is more than committed, it is a difficult work to love…the final minutes of the [Karlsons] are luminous and full of hope, something... —
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Other Colors: Latvian Composers for Flute
Ilona Meija (flute), Dzintra Erliha (piano), Ilona Meija (alto flute)
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Cantus Annae: Riga Cathedral Organ & Chamber Music
Aigars Reinis (organ), Gidons Grinbergs (violin), Elina Endzele (percussion), Ieva Ezeriete (soprano)
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Vox Clara: Late Medieval Chant From Riga, Hamburg, Lund, Lim
Late Medieval Chant From Riga, Hamburg, Lund, Limoges
Guntars Prānis, Ieva Nīmane, Jānis Moors, Jānis Kurševs, Schola Cantorum Riga, Rūdolfs Bērziņš, Rūdolfs Bērtiņš
[with] the intensely virile sound of the male-voice choir of Riga Cathedral, we can get a vivid idea of what this music would have sounded like half a millennium ago. —
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Pēteris Vasks: Lugsana/Prayer
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, State Choir Latvija, Professional Symphonic Band Riga, Maris Sirmais
An album covering 40 years of Vasks’s music, with the substantial Missa of 2005 at its heart. The State Choir Latvija’s sound is both passionate and refined. —