Browse: Concertos, Vasks (composer)
This page lists all classical by Peteris Vasks (b.1946), in genre: Concertos.
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Vasks: Musica dolorosa, Musica serena, Musica Appassionata & Klātbūtne Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Composer of the Year
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This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic yearning... — More…
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Vasks: Presence
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Irène Timacheff-Gabetta (organ)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
There's a simplicity and immediacy to Vasks's musical languge, not that far removed in character and spirituality to the sound world explored in John Taverner's The Protecting Veil, which makes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Concerto Choice
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Vasks: Distant Light
and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances
Vadim Gluzman (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
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Max Richter: Recomposed - The Four Seasons, Vasks, Pärt
Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Covent Garden Sinfonia, Ben Palmer
Humphreys mines the repetitive melodies for subtelties of colour, rather than drama. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Concerto Choice
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The emotional core of what in the 1970s would have been called a ‘concept album’ is a gripping performance of Bach’s epic D minor Chaconne…in which Samuelsen exchanges the dogged intensity of... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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Distant Light
RecommendedJS Bach & Vasks: Violin Concertos
Renaud Capuçon (violin & conductor) & Celine Frisch (harpsichord)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
[Vasks] brings out the best in Renaud Capuçon. His grasp of the music's loosely palindromic trajectory is compelling; he meets the technical and emotional challenges of the three strategically... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Vasks’s desolate, contemplative soundworld seems all too appropriate for current times. Rowland captures the spirit with aplomb here. — More…
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Peteris Vask's music is a beguiling mixture, poised somewhere on a tightrope between Sibelius and Arvo Pärt… the three pieces on this new release all exude beautiful and sometimes ravishing sounds.... — More…
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