Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Agnese Eglina, Atvars Lakstigala
Release Date: 18 February 2022
Label: Skani
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4751025441038
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
World premiere recordings of Karlis Lacis' Piano Concerto and Latvian Symphony (Latvju simfonija) by Liepaja Symphony Orchestra and pianist Agnese Eglina, recorded at Great Amber Concert Hall in Liepaja, Latvia (August 2021), Atvars Lakstigala conducting.
Karlis Lacis is an artist with an impressive creative range, from classical and choral music to instrumental experiments, music for theatre performances, jazz and pop music. His work includes symphonies, music for popular and award-winning theatre performances, collaborations with some of the greatest Latvian musicians, Latvian Song Festivals and chamber music concerts. Lacis is known not only as a composer but also as a pianist and producer. He is a sought-after arranger of music who tirelessly explores new possibilities in arranging and instrumentation.
Lacis's pop music projects have won international acclaim, filling auditoriums not only in Latvia but also abroad. He is commended by critics for his versatility and professionalism, praised by colleagues for his fanatically serious attitude to and capacity for work, and sought after by audiences for his distinctive style and mood. "My work is an entire entity. It comes gradually – with years, with experience, when one can live up to the expectations one puts on oneself. I am grateful to be able to enjoy it, and I know that my 'debt' to an audience for its trust is the music itself," Lacis has commented in an interview.
"Karlis Lacis chucks everything bar the kitchen sink into his orchestral scores – including a prepared piano in the third movement of the Piano Concerto. His Latvian Symphony is equally extravagant, not to mention eclectic in style, but also quite fun." – BBC Music Magazine
Tracklisting
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava
Various Artists
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
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Igor Zhukov, Vassily Sinaisky and Tovijs Lifsics
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Robert Kruzik
Sibylle Mahni; Andreas Spering; Brandenburger Symphoniker
