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Description
The synergy on this album between three personalities - poet Inese Zandere, composer Raimonds Pauls and conductor Ints Teterovskis - has become one of the ports of call in the BALSIS Youth Choir's "river story", a special journey that it embarked on already a decade ago.
Songs About Latvian Rivers features a lesser-known cycle of eight a cappella choral songs composed by Pauls with poetry by Zandere. Also special is the participation of both artists - with Pauls at the piano and Zandere reading - on "River Poetry", the last track on the album.
Teterovskis is convinced that as long as Zandere continues writing about rivers and as long as young people respond to Latvian choral music, BALSIS (which means 'voices' in Latvian) will continue to flow along smaller and larger rivers to wider waters.
"BALSIS […] have been musically following the course of Latvia's rivers for some years, matching a sustained journeying metaphor with profound love for the native countryside. The singing is bright and positive, the inflections unmistakeable even to non-speakers." – Choir & Organ
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Tracklisting
- 1. Salaca
- 2. Gauja
- 3. Lielupe
- 4. Ogres siciliana
- 5. Irbe
- 6. Venta
- 7. Daugava
- 8. Aiviekste. Janu rits
- 9. Upju lirika
Disc 1
Side 1
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Peteris Plakidis: Eternity
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
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The Fruit Of Silence
Latvian Radio Choir and Sigvards Klava
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Native Music 15: Traditional Folk & World Music From...
Various Artists
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Flowering Jasmine
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma
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The White Birds
String Trio Baltia
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Echoes of Latvia
Laura Zarina
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Vilnis Smidbergs: Chamber Music
Magdalena Geka, Iveta Calite & Ilona Meija
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Rihards Dubra. Music for Organ
Ilze Reinis & Aigars Reinis
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Bach: Easter Oratorio; Magnificat
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
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CPE Bach: St Matthew Passion (1769)
Soloists; Ton Koopman; Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra
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Telemann: St Luke Passion 1744
Soloists; Dresden Chamber Choir; Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
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Jean-Baptiste Lully: Proserpine
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
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Orchestral Anthems Vol. 2: Bairstow | Elgar | Irelan...
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
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Lassus: The Alchemist, Volume 2
Magnificat; Philip Cave
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HERBERT HOWELLS:
Psalms and Psalm Preludes
David Hill, The Choir of Durham Cathedral, Joseph Beech, Daniel Cook
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William Mundy: Vox patris caelestis
Choir of New College Oxford; Robert Quinney
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