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Peteris Vasks - Vale of Glamorgan Festival

Ivan Hewett presents music by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, performed at the 2016 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Including Cantabile, Sala and the Viola Concerto.

Ivan Hewett explores some recent compositions by Peteris Vasks who turned seventy in April this year. Vasks music is often tinged with an elegiac nostalgia for his homeland. It often incorporates folklore elements, placing them within a dynamic and challenging relationship with the language of contemporary music. The recordings were all made at the recent Vale of Glamorgan Festival and its director, John Metcalf joins Ivan this evening. Peteris Vasks was a guest at the festival and was present at the world premiere of a new viola concerto for former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Maxim Rysanov, a work featuring two cadenzas in a Bach-like vein.

Peteris Vasks
Cantabile

Peteris Vasks
Sala Symphonic Elegy (UK Premiere)

Peteris Vasks
Viola Concerto (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 co-commission - World Premiere)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Edwin Outwater (conductor)

Modern Muses
Oliver Knussen and soprano Claire Booth talk about their collaboration on Knussen's deeply felt Requiem â€" Songs for Sue.

plus
Horatiu Radulescu
Piano Sonata No 2, Op 82
"being and non-being create each other"
Stephen Clarke (piano).

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Sat 18 Jun 2016 22:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Peteris Vasks

    Small, Warm Holiday (Mazi, silti svetki)

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards KΔΌava.
    • Plainscapes.
    • Ondine.
    • 10.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Cantabile

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Silent Songs no. 1

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards KΔΌava.
    • Plainscapes.
    • Ondine.
    • 2.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Sala Symphonic Elegy

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • Peteris Vasks

    Viola Concerto

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Edwin Outwater.

  • HoraΘ›iu RΔƒdulescu

    Piano Sonata no 5, op. 106

    Performer: Stephen Clarke.
    • Piano Sonatas & String Quartets 1.
    • Mode Records.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Jun 2016 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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