Ondine - up to 30% off
Until 26th August, we are offering up to 30% off Ondine titles on CD, SACD, DVD, & Downloads.
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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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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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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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Special offer. Pēteris Vasks: 80th Anniversary Edition
Marko Ylönen (cello), Sinfonietta Riga (chamber ensemble), Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds, Juha Kangas, Sigvards Klava
a mesmerising 80th Anniversary Edition for the compelling composer. —
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Special offer. Pēteris Vasks: Plainscapes
Sandis Šteinbergs (violin) & Guna Āboltiņa (cello), Jānis Kokins (percussion)
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava
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... —
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Special offer. Vasks: Pater noster, Dona nobis pacem & Missa
Latvian Radio Choir & Sinfonietta Riga, Sigvards Klava
…the beauty of the music is hardly disputable. Some commentators find his current style too simplistic, neo-Romantic and sentimental… but even they must acknowledge the superb performances... —
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Special offer. Vasks: Symphony No. 3 & Cello Concerto
Marko Ylönen (cello)
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
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Special offer. Vasks: Symphony No. 2 & Violin Concerto 'Distant Light'
John Storgårds (violin)
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra & Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds & Juha Kangas
Peteris Vasks has been winning himself something of a cult following over the past decade.
On the evidence of this blistering premiere recording, his Second Symphony of 1998-9 seems set to repeat... —Purchase product
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Zariņš's impeccable pianism is hugely to thank for this, and his capacity to trace cohesive narratives through often lengthy, apparently free-wheeling but rigorously composed, works —
