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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 the music of Pēteris Vasks. The ample programme 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 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. © BIS Records
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Violin Concerto "Distant Light" (Pēteris Vasks)
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Hannu Lintu, Conductor, MainArtist - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer - Antti Pohjola, SoundEngineer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Summer Dances (Pēteris Vasks)
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Sandis Steinbergs, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Quartet for Strings & Piano (Pēteris Vasks)
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Peteris VASKS, Composer - Vadim Gluzman, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Angela Yoffe, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ilze Klava, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Nagorni, Producer, SoundEngineer - Reinis Birznieks, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2020 BIS 2020 (P) BIS
Album review
Having spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with the music of Pēteris Vasks. The ample programme 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 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. © BIS Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:24:29
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vadim Gluzman The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu
- Composer: Pēteris Vasks
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
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