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Maskats - Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus Diatonicus, etc. | Ondine ODE14192

Maskats - Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus Diatonicus, etc.

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Label: Ondine

Cat No: ODE14192

Barcode: 0761195141922

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 6th January 2023

Contents

Artists

Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andris Poga

Works

Maskats, Arturs

Accordion Concerto 'What the Wind Told Over the Sea'
Cantus Diatonicus
My River runs to thee... (Homage to Emily Dickinson)
Tango

Artists

Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andris Poga

About

Arturs Maskats (b. 1957) is a romantic and a lover of the theatre. Already on four occasions he has received Latvia’s highest music award – the Grand Music Award. One of those was given for his work Tango, which is included on this album and is one of the most popular classical music works in Latvia.

Arturs Maskats’ body of work is varied. There is a significant amount of music for the theatre, and that is understandable, since, already at the age of 25, Maskats became the music director at one of Latvia’s leading theatres – the Daile Theatre. He composed music for dozens of performances, and, for his theatre music, he was also nominated for the Spēlmaņu nakts (Performer’s Night) award, which he received on multiple occasions. Maskats was not as active in film but composed music for some dozen films.

Arturs Maskats has also actively worked in the field of academic music. He has composed a symphony, symphonic miniatures, and many distinguished instrumental concertos; several impressive vocal instrumental works, including a mass and a prayer to St Cecilia – the patron saint of music. He has also written solo songs, choir works, and instrumental works.

Andris Poga says: “Maskats’ music has a kind of poetry and pain, which is not often heard in the works by other contemporary composers. It is certainly music of emotion and fantasy, more Dionysus than Apollo.”

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