Jāzeps Vītols : 10 Lettish Folksongs, Op. 29 6-10 (Video #2/2)

[Lachausis]

Interesting! Thanks, anything is welcome that boost our Latvian self-awareness.

[PSearPianist]

@Lachausis Thank you. I am from England, a country that has no cultural self-awareness at all (when compared with our UK neighbours Scotland and Wales!).

[Lachausis]

@PSearPianist You know, no matter from what angle we look on this problem, the problem will always be in politics. Multiculturalism is murder of national culture.

[PSearPianist]

@Lachausis You're right!

[My123581321]

Aizden mani Kurzeme,great.Arvo perts thinks.Shimkus play better.

[PSearPianist]

@My123581321 Thank you. You have every right to prefer Shimkus to me - he is a very good pianist, and is from Latvia!

[KizHrgetic]

Well, I think this is pretty, I'm Vitols too! And I play the piano concidence?!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you! Perhaps you are a descendant of Vitols?

[KizHrgetic]

Yes my last name is Vitols.

[jannarta]

delightful I am almost glad that you are snowed in : these are difficult to play with all the different textures and the story board is extreemly helpful. jannarta. ( it is minus 10 and if this keeps on I shall be able to walk across the canal to the shops in the village!)

[PSearPianist]

Thank you! The snow has given me a lot of enforced practice time!

[stepasb]

I welcome the interest shown in the Baltic countries of music! Maybe when you've made and Lithuanian composers (for example, Mikalojus Konstatinas Čiurlionis 1875-1911) piano music? I wish you success in the highest!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you! I am very keen to play more music by composers from the Baltic states - I am a bit restricted by copyright (I paid for a digital download of this as Vitols is still in copyright in the EU). I would like to play some Čiurlionis as and when I can get some scores.

[Babejuda]

All of them are beautifully descriptic-music-pieces. Played beautifully as well. Bravo&Bravu!

[PSearPianist]

Thank you - they are indeed wonderfully evocative pieces.