'I have always dreamed that my music would be heard where people were unhappy: in hospitals and prisons, in crowded trains and buses… My music is intended for a large number of people, not just for the audiences at concert halls.’ This is a comment that Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) made in connection with Musica Dolorosa, the earliest of the works on the present disc, written in 1983 as a requiem for his sister. If anything the composer’s deep urge to communicate, and his humanistic and spiritual concerns have grown even stronger since then.

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Release: Feb 2001