Garuta - Apple Tree
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Label: Skani
Cat No: LMIC153
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd November 2023
Contents
Works
A Moderate BreezeA White Sheep Swims in the Sea
Apple Tree
Come, Young Generation
Day of Song
In the Spring Rain
Ligo
Little Song's Path
Oh, in My Land
Our Field so Vast and Wide
Song of the Migrating Birds
The Bridge Rumbles
The Song - Humanity's Song
The Song Walks Alongside the Sun
The Voice of Peace
The Voices of Youth
To a Dear Elderly Mother
Your Castle of Sound
Artists
Latvian Radio ChoirConductor
Sigvards KlavaWorks
A Moderate BreezeA White Sheep Swims in the Sea
Apple Tree
Come, Young Generation
Day of Song
In the Spring Rain
Ligo
Little Song's Path
Oh, in My Land
Our Field so Vast and Wide
Song of the Migrating Birds
The Bridge Rumbles
The Song - Humanity's Song
The Song Walks Alongside the Sun
The Voice of Peace
The Voices of Youth
To a Dear Elderly Mother
Your Castle of Sound
Artists
Latvian Radio ChoirConductor
Sigvards KlavaAbout
Like most composers born in Latvia in the early 20th century and who lived through the Soviet occupation, Garūta's work can be divided into periods before and after the Second World War. In the memoirs of her contemporaries from the 1930s, we read about venues full to overflowing on evenings featuring Garūta's solo songs, when the young composer herself, who had studied in Paris (1926-1928) alongside studies at the Latvian Conservatoire, sat at the piano and accompanied the brightest soloists of the day, including soprano Milda Brehmane-Štengele, mezzo-soprano Herta Lūse, tenor Mariss Vētra and baritone Adolfs Kaktiņš. Garūta was admired for her unusual interplay of thoughts that reflected on current trends in the world of music at the time, bravely defending even the ideas of Les Six, but at the same time remained faithful to elements of Latvian music, especially praising the Latvian folk song.
The Latvian Radio Choir is a unique, award-winning ensemble of professional singers that offers its audiences an extraordinarily broad repertoire, indulging in studies of early music as well as the elegance of Classicism, balancing the overflowing emotions of the Romantics and enthusiastically exploring scores by contemporary composers. The choir has always taken a special interest in Latvian choral music, seeking out and often premiering undeservedly forgotten contributions.
The Latvian Radio Choir participated in the recording of the Grammy Award-winning album Adam's Lament (ECM), composed by Arvo Pärt. The choir's recording of Sergei Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil was praised by the British magazine Gramophone as the best recording of February 2013 and ranked among the 25 best albums of the year by the American radio station NPR. Its recording of Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and Nine Sacred Choruses (Ondine) won the International Classical Music Awards/ICMA for best choral recording of the year in 2020 and was later shortlisted for BBC Music Magazine's Recording of the Year award. This is Latvian Radio Choir's 13th release on SKANi label.
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