Pēteris Vasks: Viatore, Violin Concerto "Distant Light" & Symphony No. 1 "Voices" Stanko Madić, Munich Radio Orchestra & Ivan Repušić

• Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946): Viatore (Arr. S. Vanselow):
• 1Viatore (Arr. S. Vanselow)16:08
• Violin Concerto "Distant Light":
• 2Violin Concerto "Distant Light": I. Andante05:35
• 3Violin Concerto "Distant Light": Cadenza I01:46
• 4Violin Concerto "Distant Light": II. Cantabile03:03
• 5Violin Concerto "Distant Light": III. Mosso01:40
• 6Violin Concerto "Distant Light": Cadenza II02:21
• 7Violin Concerto "Distant Light": IV. Cantabile04:20
• 8Violin Concerto "Distant Light": Cadenza III03:48
• 9Violin Concerto "Distant Light": V. Andante06:56
• Symphony No. 1 "Voices":
• 10Symphony No. 1 "Voices": I. Voices of Silence05:07
• 11Symphony No. 1 "Voices": II. Voices of Life13:19
• 12Symphony No. 1 "Voices": III. Voice of Conscience07:26
• Total Runtime01:11:29

Info for Pēteris Vasks: Viatore, Violin Concerto "Distant Light" & Symphony No. 1 "Voices"

"The works on this album are for chamber-music string ensembles: his first symphony ""Balsis - Voices"" (1991), the haunting violin concerto ""Tālā gaisma - Distant Light"" (1996/97), and the piece ""Viatore” (the traveller; 2001), dedicated to Arvo Pärt, here in a version for eleven solo strings by the conductor, church musician and arranger Stefan Vanselow. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester plays under its chief conductor Ivan Repušić, and the concerto soloist is Stanko Madić, first concertmaster of the MRO. During the critical phase that accompanied the emancipation of the Baltic states from the Soviet Union, Vasks’ symphony ""Balsis"" was commissioned by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and it premiered on September 8, 1991 in Kokkola, Finland. Its three sections are dedicated to the voices of silence, the voices of life and the voice of conscience. - The Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra ""Tala gaisma"", commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, is dedicated to Gidon Kremer, who premiered it with the Kremerata Baltica on August 10, 1997 in Salzburg. It is a sound epic rich in contrasts, with three great virtuoso solo cadenzas, tonal carpets of chords, elements of folklore, and full of dramatic gestures. - Viatore, the tribute to Arvo Pärt that Vasks composed in 2001, describes man in the loneliness of his existence as a restless wanderer - from his arrival in this world to his adolescence, his first love, and his eventual disappearance."

Stanko Madić, violin
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Ivan Repušić, conductor

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