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	Pēteris Vasks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pēteris Vasks (born April 16, 1946) is a Latvian composer.
		Vasks feels strongly about environmental issues, and a sense of nature both pristine and destroyed can be found in many of his works, such as the String Quartet No. 2.
		Vasks was the recipient of the Vienna Herder Award in 1996 and the Latvian Grand Music Award in 1997, the latter for his violin concerto "Tāla Gaisma".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peteris_Vasks (218 words)

	Peteris Vasks -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pēteris Vasks (born April 16, 1946) is a (A native or inhabitant of Latvia) Latvian composer.
		Initially, Vasks' style owed much to the aleatoric experiments of (additional info and facts about Witold Lutosławski) Witold Lutosławski, (additional info and facts about Krzysztof Penderecki) Krzysztof Penderecki and (additional info and facts about George Crumb) George Crumb.
		Vasks was the recipient of the Vienna Herder Award in 1996 and the Latvian Grand Music Award in 1997, the latter for his violin concerto "Tala Gaisma".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peteris_vasks.htm (158 words)

	Peteris Vasks: Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto "Distant Light" \| Peteris Vasks, John Storgaards,...
		Peteris Vasks is quite a renowned composer in his own right, and who enjoys, after Janis Ivanovs during the last century, the status as Latvia's foremost composer, very much like Giya Kancheli of Georgia, Valentin Silvestrov of the Ukriane, and Arvo Part of Estonia.
		Vask's Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra "Distant Light" (1996-1997), is quite as liturgical and soul searching as the Symphony, and as Kancheli's "Mourned by the Wind" for cello and orchestra (1988) for that matter.
		Peteris Vasks' recorded works stand alone in their power to evoke the mysticism of the spiritual loner.
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	ARTIST
		Vasks resolutely addresses, preaches, advocates, therefore his music is not classical but programmed in a literary sense: in conjunction with an idea, a moral and emotional frame of reference.
		Peteris Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia on April 16, 1946.The son of a minister and with its ensuing stigma in the former Soviet Union Vasks finallv found a safe haven for his budding talents in neighboring Lithuania.
		Peteris Vasks is the 1996 recipient of the Vienna Herder Award and the 1997 Latvian Grand Music Award (Liela muzikas balva) for his Concerto for Violin (Tala Gaisma).
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/BioInfo.cfm?Biography__Performer=VASK (458 words)

	Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4 \| Peteris Vasks, Kronos Quartet \| Just beautiful
		Lyrical and elegiac, the 4th String Quartet by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is a meditation on the brutality and suffering of the 20th century.
		Vasks declares that the second and fourth movements, Toccata I and Toccata II, are "in a spirit close to that of Shostakovich's style" -- "aggressive, and at times, ironic." This is a notable departure for Vasks, who is not known for anything dissonant or angry.
		Vasks may not be the most original of contemporary composers, but he knows how to work with existing materials and create music that is accessible and moving.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbffffxaxnixfxi (915 words)

	Peteris Vasks [BK]: Classical Reviews- March 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vasks was born in the town of Aizpute, Latvia in 1946, where his father was a minister, and consequently a distinct religious air dominates much of his output.
		Vasks and other composers took to writing scores, at first glance with little relevance to current issues, often with historical themes, but with coded messages to those who could read them, supporting the goals of the rebellion against the Russian oppressors.
		Vasks’ importance in the shaping of things to come cannot be underestimated, and the Zalite setting was part of the unfolding developments, as the mighty Soviet Union was laid low, and Latvian independence was secured.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Mar02/Vasks.htm (800 words)

	Popular Music : Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has said 'There has been so much bloodshed and destruction, and yet love's power and idealism have helped to keep the world in balance.
		I wanted to speak of these things in my new quartet; not from the sidelines, but with direct emotion and sensitivity,' and, indeed, from the folksy melodies through to chaos and back again which he creates in this, his fourth quartet, we are taken through a myriad of feelings.
		But the textures, so beautifully brought out by the great Kronos Quartet, are uniquely Vasks' and when, at the work's conclusion, after a return to the folk melody of the first movement, the strings fly up to their highest registers and simply disappear into the ethos, the effect is magical and, somehow, comforting.
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	WERGO - Vasks, Peteris
		From 1963 to 1974 Vasks was member of various symphony and chamber orchestras such as the Lithuanian Philharmonic Orchestra (1966-69), the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (1969-70) and the orchestra of the Latvian Radio and Television (1971-74).
		But what really matters to Vasks is not a poetic praise of nature or a landscape description as aesthetic ideal: The mutual relation between nature and man, the beauty of life and the threatening ecological and moral destruction of these values
		Peteris Vasks lives in Riga as a freelance composer.
	www.schott-international.com /shop/php/Proxy.php?purl=/wergo_e/artists/show,19587.html (284 words)

	Peteris Vasks: Major presence in Northern Europe
		With three premieres of Vasks’ works starting on the 19 October with the 5th String Quartet, then continuing on the 9 November with Missa for choir and string orchestra and culminating on the 25 November with 3rd Symphony.
		Vasks’ first four quartets have already proved to be huge successes and now this fifth for the Kronos Quartet looks set live up to the rest - Premiere on the 19 October at Tallinn, with further performances on the 21 in Copenhagen and the 22 October in Malmö.
		Both of the Premieres in November occur in Finnland: Missa is for the Helsinki Bach Festival and the 3rd Symphony is for the Tampere Filharmonia and their chief conductor John Storgårds.
	www.schott-music.com /news/komponistennews/show,15432.html (302 words)

	Peteris Vasks - String Quartet No 4 (Kronos Quartet)
		Peteris Vasks has become something of a leading light in Eastern European music.
		When working on the piece in 1999, Vasks says he "often reflected on the passing century.
		For them to commission a work from Vasks indicates the high regard in which he is held.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/vasks.htm (346 words)

	Popular Music : Music of Peteris Vasks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His music has some affinities with that of Pärt and Tormis, and while Vasks isn't afraid to tap into different stylistic modes, like Schnittke, his music remains mostly tonal and doggedly idealistic.
		Vasks' works clearly show his admiration for the Romantic and early Modern masters, from Bruckner and Rachmaninov to Stravinsky and Salinen; as well as his ability to assimilate, then restructure their melodies and harmonics in a delightfully spacious way.
		Vasks compositions on this CD are the most powerful modern-classical pieces I have heard.
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	INKPOT#48 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: VASKS Cello Concerto & Voices Symphony (CONIFER) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such are the terrible memories of suffering confronted in the music of their eminent composer Peteris Vasks, which is also contrasted by a lush and simple beauty embracing freedom and nature.
		Vasks is now a full-time composer and is interested in early and contemporary music; he is also influenced by the late Witold Lutoslawski and other Polish contemporary composers such as Penderecki and Gorecki; plus Crumb, Kanchieli and even Mahler and Sibelius.
		Towards the end of this long (nearly 15 minutes) movement, Vasks seems to direct the music towards the mood of the concluding Voices of Conscience, sorrowfully tracing the pain and suffering of the world, wrecked by war, cruelty, destruction.
	inkpot.com /classical/vasksvoices.html (926 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		In a courageous action the Latvian parliament voted for independence from the Soviet Union, and in August 1991 Latvia was recognized by the U.S.S.R. as an independent state.
		Peteris Vasks’s entire life, as a student and then as a practicing musician, has been lived under the shadow of Soviet domination, which we know from the experiences of such composers as Shostakovich and Prokofiev was extremely traumatic and hazardous to free creativity.
		Vasks ideal in the Cantabile, "to express how beautiful and harmonious the world is," is achieved in a kind of wonderfully floating stream of consciousness but controlled manner that is enveloping and, for all its brevity, emotionally satisfying.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=5 (654 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		She helpfully points out that most of the musicians in the symphony were trained at the same school in Riga that gave us Gidon Kremer, Mariss Jansons and Mischa Maisky.
		Peteris Butans' music fascinates me for its sparkling humour, while Peteris Plakidis' "Hallooing" for soloists and orchestra is, in my opinion, a brilliant composition having been preformed undeservedly rarely, and I am very happy that we shall have the opportunity to listen to that wonderful music at the concert on April 8th."
		The CD, by the way, is terrific; a witty tango by Arturs Maskats, a Vasks piece called “Viatore” that demonstrates his command of juicy strings, well-crafted pieces by Aivars Kalejs and Andreis Riekstins.
	www.sequenza21.com /2005/04/road-to-riga.html (442 words)

	The Green Head - Emporium : Music Shop - Music of Peteris Vasks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many composers, Vasks among them, utilize great dynamic range variations, crescendos and diminuendos, as a tool to create a deeper spatial dimension and psychological impact.
		In my opinion, the problem is two-fold: microphone placements and recording engineering, as well as the job of conducting the orchestra for the recording media.
		Comment: Vasks compositions on this CD are the most powerful modern-classical pieces I have heard.
	www.thegreenhead.com /emporium/B000003D2J/Music-of-Peteris-Vasks.html (567 words)

	MDT - ODE10052, Ondine CD
		Peteris Vasks is one of the leading composers in
		In the same way as the Polish idiom can be understood through Gorecki, the Estonian through Part and the Georgian through Kancheli, all of whom Vasks considers his contemporaries in music and spirit.
		Tala gaisma (Distant Light) is a concerto for violin and a large string orchestra.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/ODE10052.htm (257 words)

	Kronos Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kronos was joined by guest vocalist Paul Hillier for Moving Still: H.C. Andersen 200, written for Kronos and Hillier in commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen.
		Peteris Vasks's String Quartet No. 5 is the second work that the Latvian composer has written for Kronos.
		About this piece, Vasks wrote that he "wished to speak of how we are each a part of the world, and a world unto ourselves, of the existence and necessity of idealism, the love around us and in us." He dedicated this quartet to the musicians of Kronos, "my friends and like-minded colleagues.
	www.kronosquartet.org /info/news.html (2074 words)

	VASKS Srting Quartets [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- December 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Third is in four movements and deploys Vasks’ stimulating and purely presented soundworld.
		Vasks' world was very different in 1977 as is announced by the fifteen minute First Quartet which uses an aggressive aleatory approach and Penderecki-like slides and ululation.
		John Kehoe of the ill-fated Conifer label provides a very personal booklet note reminding us how Vasks' voice and that of many Latvians had been stifled during the long years of Soviet rule.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Dec03/vasks_quartets.htm (402 words)

	Vasks offers revelatory spin on old gestures
		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.
		The skittering, grinding dissonances of the even-numbered movements are enlivened by the rhythmic surprises, and the keening melodies of the odd- numbered movements keep turning back on themselves and on their underlying harmonies.
		Newfound enthusiasm for Vasks' music is bound to be tempered a little by exposure to the composer's turgid, overextended Second Symphony, recorded in a capable but overwrought performance by the Tampere Philharmonia Orchestra of Finland under conductor John Storgards.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/14/PK233281.DTL&type=entertainment (524 words)

	More from the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, reviewed by Malcolm Tattersall
		He is concerned, he said, by the gulf between living composers and their potential audience and would like to bridge it.
		Now that the next generation of composers has found ways to write music which connects with the emotions, audiences need to be made aware of the change: step forward, please, Peteris Vasks.
		Vasks spoke most about Latvia's experience of World War 2 -- three successive invasions followed by a fifty-year Russian occupation -- and the difficulties of retaining artistic integrity and making life-affirming music under totalitarian rule.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/07/vasks1.htm (393 words)

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	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Peteris Vasks' Violin Concerto ("Distant Light") was written for Gidon Kremer, who very capably recorded it for Teldec.
		However, although Kremer is a fine musician and a real force in contemporary music today, his sound often comes across as less than ingratiating, and for this reason John Storgards offers a useful alternative view.
		The real treat, though, is this premiere recording of Vasks' epic Second Symphony, a 40-minute single movement that sounds something like Giya Kancheli with better tunes and less sense of despair.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6254 (288 words)

	Phoenix USA Presents "Mikhail Bronner, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Peteris Vasks: VIOLIN CONCERTOS".
		This concerto received its premiere in Moscow in 1990 by the ARCO Chamber Orchestra with Levon Ambartsumian, violin, and Guennadi Freidine, viola, as soloists.
		MUSICA DOLOROSA by Peteris Vasks, was completed in 1983, shortly before the death of the composer's sister, to whose memory this work is dedicated.
		The work has become Vasks most known and frequently performed composition to date.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/Detail.CFM?Master__Catnumber=PHCD159 (316 words)

	Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4 - dragonflycds.com Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Vasks voices compassion at the end of a brutal century:
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	Peteris Vasks - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shostakovich, Vasks, Schnittke: Dolorosa / Davies, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
		Peteris Vasks: Message - Cantabile (1979); Cor anglais Concerto (1989); Message (1982); Musica dolorosa (1983); Lauda (1986)
		The IMC UNESCO International Music Prize for 2005 was awarded to Mikis Theodorakis in Aachen, Germany.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=vasks (390 words)

	RedLudwig.com: Music News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A CD of Peteris Vasks' Symphony No. 2 was named Disc of the Year
		Composer Peteris Vasks, conductor Claudio Abbado, soprano Régine Crespin and pianist Zoltán Kocsis were among the winners of this year's Cannes Classical Music Awards, which were announced last week at the annual MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France.
		A recording of Vasks' Symphony No. 2 and violin concerto Distant Light was named Disc of the Year, while Abbado, Crespin, Kocsis and Swedish record label executive Robert von Bahr were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
	www.redludwig.com /news/archive/020504.html (473 words)

	Amazon.com: Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Music of Peteris Vasks ~ France Springuel (Performer), et al
		Peteris Vasks: Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto "Distant Light" ~ Peteris Vasks (Composer), et al
		Vasks voices compassion at the end of a brutal century, October 31, 2004
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