Peteris Vasks (Composer)
Born: 16th April 1946, Aizpute, Latvia
Nationality: Latvian
Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer. He trained as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several Latvian orchestras before entering the State Conservatory in Vilnius in the neighboring Lithuania to study composition with Valentin Utkin, as he was prevented from doing this in Latvia due to Soviet repressive policy toward Baptists. He started to become known outside Latvia in the 1990s, when Gidon Kremer started championing his works and now is one of the most influential and praised European contemporary composers.
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Interview,
Pēteris Vasks
18th April 2019
The Latvian composer talks to David about his new album of choral works, featuring two large-scale liturgical compositions and written as a centenary present to his country.
Recording of the Week,
Sol Gabetta plays Pēteris Vasks
27th November 2015
David listens to cello works by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, performed by Sol Gabetta.
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Popular Works: Vasks
- Balta ainava [White Scenery] (6)
- Bass Trip for Double Bass (3)
- Cantabile for String Orchestra (5)
- Canto di forza (2)
- Cantus ad pacem (3)
- Castillo interior (5)
- Cello Concerto No. 2 'Klatbutne / Presence' (4)
- Dona nobis pacem (5)
- Grāmata čellam (The Book) (8)
- Lauda (3)
- Lidzenuma ainavas (2)
- Litene - Ballad (3)
- Lonely Angel (4)
- Mazā vasaras mūzika (Little Summer Music) (3)
- Missa (2)
- Music for a deceased friend (2)
- Music for a Summer Evening (4)
- Musica Appassionata (5)
- Musica dolorosa (9)
- Musique du Soir (3)
- Piano Quartet (5)
- Piano Trio (“Episodi e Canto perpetuo”) (6)
- Plainscapes (5)
- String Quartet No. 1 (2)
- String Quartet No. 2, 'Sommerweisen' (4)
- String Quartet No. 3 (3)
- String Quartet No. 4 (4)
- Symphony for String Orchestra "Voices" (3)
- Symphony No. 2 (2)
- Symphony No. 3 (3)
- Tala gaisma-Concerto for violin & string orchestra (2)
- Te Deum (4)
- The Fruits Of Silence (5)
- The Sonata of Loneliness (3)
- Vasaras vakara muzika [Music for a Summer Evening] (4)
- Viatore (4)
- Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' (6)
- Vox Amoris-Fantasia per violino ed archi (3)
- Wind Quintet No. 2: In memory of a friend (3)
- Ziles zina (The Message of the Titmouse) (4)
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