Navarra Quartet - String Quartets Nos 1-3, Peteris Vasks EPK

"His music is the product of a country that for years struggled under the yoke of the Soviet regime."How can a composer create in such surroundings?" Vasks often wondered. "How does he survive in such a chronically dire situation?" His answer seems simple: "By suffering in sympathy with
the suffering of the entire world. For me, this is the only solution. Suffering
is not a game or a fantasy to me. I sit in the midst of it; my family sits in the midst of it; my people. I feel the heartbeat of suffering. That is for me the source of our power." And the source of his music, as well, for in his scores, Vasks is a somber pessimist with a glowing edge of never-flagging hope. He agitates in his work against the situation in his country. "When I think about modern life, it is impossible to not realize that we are balancing on the edge of the end of time." They are heavy themes that motivate
Vasks' music -- in his string quartets, too. In his first three string quartets --
he has written five -- the transformation is clearly perceptible from the direct
sources of his inspiration to an abstraction of his worry and suffering.

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• Navarra
• Quartet
• String
• Strijkkwartet
• Peteris
• Vasks
• Nos 1-3