Composer: Pēteris Plakidis
Performer: Pēteris Plakidis, Antra Bigača, Uldis Urbāns, Vilnis Pelnēns, Andris Pauls, Dzintars Beitāns, Riga Chamber Players
Conductor: Normunds Šnē
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0004
Release: 2007
Size: 270 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Music for Piano, Strings and Timpani
Songs for the Wind and Blood
02. No. 1. No one enters this forest
03. No. 2. The dark waters of blood are flowing
04. No. 3. Take me, o wind
05. Concerto for 2 Oboes and Strings
06. Concerto-Ballad for 2 Violins, Piano and Strings
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.