BERLIN, GERMANY, April 12, 2023—Orchestral Tools launches Pēteris Vasks Strings, a contemporary chamber string ensemble sample library created in partnership with composer Pēteris Vasks. Captured with ...

Peteris Vasks Strings is ideal for a number of production settings, from commercial, to classical or cinematic. Legato playing will require some practice. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert ...

Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra Maxim Rysanov, Conductor, Viola Riga Sinfonietta Symphony for Strings, 'Voices' Maxim Rysanov, Conductor, Viola Riga Sinfonietta Most works by Vasks present, in ...

A world of elegies opens up on this disc of string quartets by living composers. The main event is Pēteris Vasks’s String Quartet No. 4, written in 1999. Dedicated to the composer’s mother on her 90th ...

Andrew Mellor guides us through the available recordings of one of the most popular of modern violin concertos The first violin concerto by the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, Distant Light (Tālā ...

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Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...

At 57, Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has begun to enjoy the sort of voguish attention that has already been lavished on such composers as Arvo Part and Giya Kancheli. This beautiful, gripping new ...

The string section is commonly the largest of the orchestral units; you need that many players to balance with the wind, brass and percussion, but sometimes string scoring requires smaller forces, for ...