Martins Brauns - Daugava
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Label: Skani
Cat No: LMICSKANI064
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 10th August 2018
Contents
Artists
Latvian Radio ChoirConductor
Sigvards KlavaAbout
Every four years, a choir of approximately 35,000 singers gather at the Mezaparks Grand Bandstand in Riga to perform at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival. ‘Saule, Perkons, Daugava’ (Sun, Thunder, Daugava), the final track of this album, has been firmly cemented in the core repertoire of the festival. The festival is such a unique event that it has been included on the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Daugava by poet the Rainis and composer Martins Brauns has great cultural and historical value. The work is closely linked with the birth of the Latvian state in the early 20th century as well as with the country’s path towards the restoration of its independence at the end of the 20th century. Remarkably, ‘Sun, Thunder, Daugava’ was adopted as the anthem of the Catalonian independence movement.
The Latvian Radio Choir makes regular appearances in the world’s most prestigious concert halls, festivals and concert series, as well as well received albums for Ondine, Hyperion Records, Deutsche Grammophon, ECM, BIS and Naive and SKANI labels. It has become one of the world’s leading choirs.
“There is, in fact, something extraordinary about Latvian choirs: they sing as though their very lives depend on it, and when they are singing Latvian music their immediate connection with the language makes this even more apparent. There is both Nordic clarity and Slavic profundity to be heard in the sound of a Latvian choir, and there is also what I might call a poetic sense, an instinctive knowledge of how to phrase.” – Gramophone
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