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Peteris Plakidis - Music for String Orchestra | Toccata Classics TOCC0004

Peteris Plakidis - Music for String Orchestra

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0004

Barcode: 5060113440044

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 25th June 2007

Contents

Artists

Antra Bigaca (mezzo Soprano)
Peteris Plakidis (piano)
Uldis Urbans (oboe)
Vilnis Pelnens (oboes)
Andris Pauls (violin)
Dzintars Beitans (violin)
Riga Chamber Players

Conductor

Normunds Sne

Works

Plakidis, Peteris

Concerto-Ballad for Two Violins, Piano and Strings
Concerto for Two Oboes and Strings
Music for Piano, Strings and Timpani
Songs of the Wind and Blood

Artists

Antra Bigaca (mezzo Soprano)
Peteris Plakidis (piano)
Uldis Urbans (oboe)
Vilnis Pelnens (oboes)
Andris Pauls (violin)
Dzintars Beitans (violin)
Riga Chamber Players

Conductor

Normunds Sne

About

• The music of Pēteris Plakidis, born in 1947, is rooted in the melodic character of Latvian folk-music, which imbues all his works with a remarkable strength and beauty.

• Renaissance and Baroque polyphony and forms, such as fugue, chaconne, canon and variation, provide the strong internal organisation that binds together a remarkable and moving synthesis of disparate elements.

• Although Plakidis shares some points of contact with the ‘Holy Mystics’ among other Baltic composers, such as Arvo Pärt and Pēteris Vasks, his own music evokes the meditative power of nature and the distinct character of his Latvian roots.

• From these four works a unique voice emerges, a musical personality full of harmonic warmth, rhythmic excitement and dramatic lyricism.

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