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Release Date: 18th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: LMIC054
Label: SKANI
Length: 58 minutes

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Darzins, E: Long Ago

Work length3:27

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Darzins, E: Moonbeams

Work length3:21

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Darzins, E: The Broken Pines

Work length3:10

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Melngailis: Nature and the Soul

Work length3:51

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Melngailis: Latvian Requiem

Work length12:00

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

I. Move Gently and Quietly

Track length5:27

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II. Gently, Slowly

Track length1:46

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III. The Sun is Setting

Track length2:02

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IV. Doomsday

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Zālīts: The Goblet on the Isle of the Dead

Work length4:44

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Graubiņš: Night Has Entered the Forest

Work length2:57

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The Day Is Ending

Work length1:38

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The Moon Lied

Work length1:16

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The Enchanted Forest

Work length3:40

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The Dwarves and the Old Man of the Forest

Work length4:03

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The King and the Mushroom

Work length2:30

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: David Before Saul

Work length8:02

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

Vitols: The Sun's Revelry

Work length3:21

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Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putniņš
Recorded: October 2016
Recording Venue: St John’s Church, Riga, Latvia

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The wonderful works chosen for this album, each one with its own story and distinct character, collectively create something reminiscent of a dear childhood home to which we need to return from time to time. The Latvian Radio Choir beautifully performs these Latvian choral classics by Vitols. Darzins, Melngailis, Zalitis and Graubins.

’The majority of Latvia’s choral conductors have likely grown up with these songs whose imagery, sound and colour are deeply encoded in our consciousness, perhaps to a much greater extent than we realise. The subdued northern nature that bursts into a lavish display at the height of summer and the “various emotional states of the soul”, as Emils Darzins described the subjects that interested him in music. - Kaspars Putnins

Reviews:

’Anyone lucky enough to have heard last Sunday’s celebration of the music of Rachmaninov at the BBC Proms couldn’t help but be impressed by the meticulous singing of the Latvian Radio Choir. Now, to mark Latvia’s forthcoming centenary, it has released a recording of compositions from its homeland where once again we can savour its miraculously cohesive sound. Featuring a pure soprano line and sonorously rich basses, the choir charts a path through the development of Latvian choral music, majoring on the works of Jazeps Vitols (1863-1948), whose extended masterwork, David Before Saul is a highlight, rivalled by Emilis Melngailis’s heartbreaking Move Gently and Quietly.’ - Stephen Pritchard, The Observer

EDITOR’S CHOICE ‘This is a truly beautiful album of Latvian choral works performed by singers clearly immersed in its musical and cultural foundations.’ --Martin Cullingford, Gramophone

’This Latvian programme whisks us away to landscapes of enchanted forests and never-ending sunsets, thanks to a stunning performance by the Latvian Radio Choir.’ - BBC Music Magazine

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