Vasks - Plainscapes
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... —
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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. 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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Tim Posner, Hülya Keser, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Candida Thompson, Martina Batič
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Isang Enders (soloist, cello), Alexandra Soumm (soloist), Wolfram Buchenberg, Sächsisches Vokalensemble, Matthias Jung
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Peteris Vasks: Distant Light
Maja Bogdanović, Daniel Rowland, Stift Festival Orchestra, Consensus Vocalis, Thomas Carroll, Benjamin Goodson
Vasks’s desolate, contemplative soundworld seems all too appropriate for current times. Rowland captures the spirit with aplomb here. —
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Graham Ross judges the spacious juxtapositions of movement and silence exquisitely, the Dmitri Ensemble’s explosion of energy in the third interlude being simultaneously surprising yet entirely... —
