Epifania is dedicated to the Finnish conductor Juha Kangas. We have been close friends since 1991 when he directed the first performance of my 1st Symphony ’Balsis · Stimmen’.
Epifania is a brief, tranquil composition with an extremely measured sonorous string sound primarily played con sordino. A lyrical theme is introduced at the beginning which is varied during the central section with cumulative exhilaration, only to reappear a third time in inverted form in the final section, accompanied by the divisi violins playing an old Latvian folk song. As an unspoken motto above the music, I can see the question: what remains at the end of a life full of music? Pēteris Vasks
Epifania is a brief, tranquil composition with an extremely measured sonorous string sound primarily played con sordino. A lyrical theme is introduced at the beginning which is varied during the central section with cumulative exhilaration, only to reappear a third time in inverted form in the final section, accompanied by the divisi violins playing an old Latvian folk song. As an unspoken motto above the music, I can see the question: what remains at the end of a life full of music? Pēteris Vasks
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra’s new CD Epifania (Epiphany) includes works by five composers of our time, some of who have direct links with the orchestra and conductor. Four of the works are heard here as world premiere recordings. Tiensuu’s Sulci and Meriläinen’s Summer Concerto were both specially commissioned works by the orchestra.
Vask’s work Epifania was dedicated to the conductor of this recording, Juha Kangas. Vasks says he got the idea for its main theme while walking by the Baltic Sea one summer’s evening.
Vask’s work Epifania was dedicated to the conductor of this recording, Juha Kangas. Vasks says he got the idea for its main theme while walking by the Baltic Sea one summer’s evening.
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