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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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Peteris Vasks: PRAYER / LUGSANA
State Choir "Latvija", Latvian National Symphony Orchestra,
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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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Already Bloomed: Contemporary Latvian Women Composers
Riga Project Choir
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The White Birds
String Trio Baltia
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Echoes of Latvia
Laura Zarina
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Arvo Part: Credo
Paavo Jarvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra; Kalle Randalu; Estonian National Male Choir; Ellerhein Gi
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A babe is born: Music for Christmas
St Martin's Voices; Andrew Earis (director)
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Handel: Israel in Egypt
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
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Te Deum pour Notre-Dame
Alain Altinoglu; Thierry Escaich; Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris; NFM Choir; Frankfurt Radio Symphony
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Arvo Part: And I heard a voice
Vox Clamantis; Ene Salumae; Jaan-Eik Tulve
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Michael Haydn: Requiem Pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Si...
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Academy of Ancient Music; Matthew Martin
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Haydn: Missa Cellensis
Mari Eriksmoen; Kristina Hammarstrom; Mark Milhofer; Christian Senn; Zurcher Sing-Akademie; Kammero
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Charpentier: Messe a 4 Choeurs. Cori Spezzati
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas; Consort Musica Vera; Choeur de l'Opera Royal; Choeur de la Maitrise du CRR d
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