Vasks: Distant Light: and Piano Quartet & Summer Dances

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Release Date: 29th May 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2352
Label: BIS
Length: 84 minutes

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Vasks: Violin Concerto 'Distant Light'

Work length33:29

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Vadim Gluzman (violin)
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu

Andante I

Track length6:51

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Cadenza I

Track length1:49

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Cantabile I

Track length3:57

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Mosso

Track length1:42

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Cadenza II

Track length2:24

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Cantabile II

Track length4:26

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Cadenza III

Track length4:01

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Andante II

Track length8:19

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Vasks: Summer Dances

Work length12:13

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Vadim Gluzman (violin), Sandis Šteinbergs (violin)

I. Broadly, Sonorously

Track length1:40

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II. Underscoring the Character

Track length1:21

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III. Unhurriedly

Track length1:31

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IV. Energetically

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V. Sadly

Track length2:15

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VI. Joyfully

Track length2:09

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VII. Broadly, Sonorously

Track length2:07

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Vasks: Piano Quartet

Work length38:47

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Vadim Gluzman (violin), Ilze Klava (viola), Reinis Birznieks (cello), Angela Yoffe (piano)

I. Preludio

Track length3:21

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II. Danze

Track length5:41

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III. Canti drammatici

Track length7:27

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IV. Quasi una passacaglia

Track length7:39

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V. Canto principale

Track length10:33

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VI. Postludio

Track length4:06

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Having spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with this disc of music by Peteris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto ‘Distant Light’, which in the two decades since it was composed has become a modern classic. The composer has described it as ‘a song, coming from silence and floating away into silence, full of idealism and love, at times melancholy, at times dramatic.’ For the concerto, Gluzman found support from the strings of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu, just across the Baltic See from Latvia. For the other works on the disc he is however joined by Latvian colleagues and friends. These include the violinist Sandis Šteinbergs who appears in the duo Summer Dances, one of Vasks’ more carefree and buoyant pieces. This recent work in seven brief movements is, in the composer’s own words, the musical equivalent of a naïvist painting. In comparison, the Piano Quartet from 2001 is one of his longest and most imposing chamber works. Beginning with a perfect fifth in the piano, it takes the listener on an emotional roller-coaster, through hectic dances and dramatic songs to a typical ‘Vasks ending’ with a distant light offering a tempered hope. In the quartet, Vadim Gluzman leads an ensemble consisting of Ilze Klava, Reinis Birznieks, and Angela Yoffe.

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