BERLIN, GERMANY, April 12, 2023—Orchestral Tools launches Pēteris Vasks Strings, a contemporary chamber string ensemble sample library created in partnership with composer Pēteris Vasks. Captured with ...

The string section is commonly the largest of the orchestral units; you need that many players to balance with the wind, brass and percussion, but sometimes string scoring requires smaller forces, for ...

Amazon mp3: $9.5 | Amazon CD: ~$17 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz: £10 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The String Quartets of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (*1946) are manifold works of considerable, eerie ...

At 57, Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has begun to enjoy the sort of voguish attention that has already been lavished on such composers as Arvo Part and Giya Kancheli. This beautiful, gripping new ...

Peteris Vasks’s 30-minute Episodi e canto perpetuo is subtitled Hommage à O Messiaen. That’s all well and good. In fact it sounds so much like a running commentary on the Quartet for the End of Time ...

Sound Out presenter Ian McGlynn previews one of this week's outstanding new music releases - Distant Light, featuring music by renowned Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. The seeds of this beautiful new ...

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Peteris Vasks Strings is ideal for a number of production settings, from commercial, to classical or cinematic. Legato playing will require some practice. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert ...