Vasks reviews
Pētēris Vasks: Musica Serena; Musica Dolorosa, etc
Munich Radio Orchestra/Ivan Repušić, et al (BR Klassik)
Pēteris Vasks: Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' etc
Vadim Gluzman (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu (BIS)
Stabat
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; The Dmitri Ensemble/Graham Ross (Harmonia Mundi)
Pēteris Vasks: Viola Concerto; Symphony No. 1
Maxim Rysanov (viola); Sinfonietta Riga (BIS)
Fenella Humphreys soars in The Four Seasons Recomposed
‘Humphreys mines the repetitive melodies for subtelties of colour, rather than drama’
Company: an 'outstanding CD' from the Borusan Quartet
This outstanding CD from the Istanbul-based Borusan Quartet explores a diverse collection of modern string quartets with tremendous spirit and poise. Arvo Pärt’s restless Summa (1977), an early example of the composer’s ‘tintinnabuli’ style, opens the disc. It is paired with Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 2 (1983), originally composed to accompany a staged adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novel Company and here performed with apt intensity and precision.