Aigars Reinis, Ieva Ezeriete, Gidons Grinbergs and Elina Endzele
Description
This album recorded at the Riga Cathedral and the compositions on it reflect modern man's road to the church or temple. This road to spirituality leads listeners to experience new horizons and depths and every step, every composition, merges into a single, essential awareness. All works on this album are world premiere recordings.
'This recording has given us the opportunity to celebrate compositions that have been written specifically for us – not only us as a musical ensemble, but also us as specific people. We are happy that our collaboration with composers Rihards Dubra, Santa Ratniece and Rihards Zalupe has resulted in wonderful music – vivid, varied and expressive. This is music that is very important to us musicians. Now, recorded on CD, it can reach new listeners in Latvia and abroad, and maybe new interpreters of this music will be found, thereby opening ever new vistas and horizons.' Aigars Reinis
Personnel
Ieva Ezeriete, soprano (4, 6)
Eli¯na Endzele, percussion (3, 5, 6)
Gidons Gri¯nbergs, violin (2, 5)
Aigars Reinis, organ (1-6)
Jolanta Barinska, organ assistant
Tracklisting
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
Various Artists
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Atvars Lakstigala
Various Artists
Latvian Radio Choir
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra / Normunds Sne, Deutsche Radio Philharmonic Saarbruken-Kaiserslautern / Karel Mark Chicon and Silesian String Quartet
Egils Silin?s and Maris Skuja
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Berit Norbakken (soprano) & Solmund Nystabakk (lutes)
Magnus Boye Hansen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gavin Bryars
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
