Spīķeru String Quartet - Pēteris Vasks_String Quartets 1, 3, 4 (2016) [FLAC] WEB
Composer: Pēteris Vasks (b.1946) 彼得里斯·瓦斯克斯 / 派特立斯·法斯卡 / 佩特里斯·瓦斯克斯
Ensemble: Spīķeru String Quartet
Antti Kortelainen………..violin
Eriks Kirsfelds………….violin
Ineta Abakuka…………….viola
Marta Sparnina……………cello
Label: Wergo
No.: WER 73302
Number of Discs: 1
Year: October 28, 2016
I have always dreamed that my music would be heard in the places where unhappy people are gathered in hospitals, prisons, overcrowded trams and buses... consoling and questioning. - Peteris Vasks. Peteris Vasks' main mission is a panegyric of love. There are characteristic symbols in Vasks music: birdsongs associated with ultimate freedom; elements of Latvian folk music as reminders of Latvian identity; toccata-like passages expressing an evil and brutal force, and aleatoric episodes picturing the scenes full of despair and chaos. Besides the all-embracing humanism, the destiny and history of Vasks homeland Latvia have always been present in his music. Born in 1946 at Aizpute, a town situated in Western Latvia, Vasks has spent most of his life under the regime of Soviet occupation, witnessing both the suppression of the Latvian language and deliberate russification of the Latvian nation. Deeply felt pain of his oppressed nation, its endangered identity and the portrayal of totalitarianism at its most brutal became the dramatic vein of Vasks music. The present recording of the String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 and 4 complete the string quartet oeuvre of Peteris Vasks already recorded. All string quartets were released on the occasion of the Latvian composer's 70th birthday. Each of the five string quartets was composed at a different time, but they all cover almost thirty years of his creative experience and clearly illustrate the basic principles of Vasks' musical language.
作曲家本人这样说道:“有这么多的流血和破坏,但爱情的力量和理想主义有助于保持世界平衡,这就是我的这部四重奏中想讲东西。不隐晦,表达直接的情感和敏感性”。的确,从平易近人的旋律穿过混乱,然后再返回他在这个创造,他的第四弦乐四重奏,我们通过感受无数的场景,时而是激烈的,他知道如何建立一个高潮,放松,听者回到戏剧认识的提高。他颠覆性的方式部分受到肖斯塔科维奇的影响。克罗诺斯四重奏团的精妙演出带来如此完美的效果。在作品的结尾,回归到第一乐章的民间旋律后,琴弦飞到最高的把位,神奇的效果给听众极大的安慰。作品采用了拉脱维亚民歌,各个乐章表现了在经历一个世纪的沉静的反思,不同视角地冥想,尖锐的、不安的、焦虑的、痛苦的、柔和的。第四弦乐四重奏,提献给克罗诺斯四重奏团,2000年在巴黎De La Ville剧院首演。