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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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Handel: Alexander's Feast
Miriam Kutrowatz; Daniel Johannsen; Damien Gastl; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardin
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Molter: Oratorio "Hochst schmerzensvoller Tag"
Julia Sophie Wagner|Susanne Langner|Benjamin Glaubitz|Karsten Muller|Camerata Bachiensis
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Veni Creator Spiritus - Second Vespers of the Solemn...
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Simon Johnson; Peter Stevens; Simon Johnson
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The Living Fire
The Choir of Jesus College; Benjamin Sheen
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Everlasting Light
The Choir of Bath Abbey; Huw Williams
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Michael Ostrzyga: Seasons & Time
Ensemble vocal; Kammerchor der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg; Cornelius Trantow
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James Woodhall: Full of Grace
Cantores Lucis; James Woodhall
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (Recreation o...
Kate Lindsey; Johann Kristinsson; Veronika Eberle; Thomas Cornelius; Chor der KlangVerwaltung; Capp
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