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Ešenvalds responds to the purpose of the words he sets, occupying similar choral territory to the likes of Whitacre and Shchedrin, character rather than ego dominating … Ešenvalds favours the upper voices, giving them luminous, floating melodies against backgrounds that set them in shimmering relief or throw mysterious, penumbrous cloaks around them. Polyphony typically balances beauty of timbre...
In den drei Republiken des Baltikum gab es immer schon eine ausgeprägt hochklassige und vielfältige Musikszene, die nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion wieder richtig aufblühte. Nun, rund 20 Jahre danach, ist sie zu einem bedeutenden Faktor in der europäischen Szene der zeitgenössischen Musik (sowohl im Jazz, als auch in der zeitgenössischen klassischen Musik) geworden. Zahlreiche Komponisten...
De revolutie van 1991 in Letland is de geschiedenis ingegaan als de ‘zingende revolutie’. Duizenden Letten verzamelden zich om liederen te zingen die door de communistische machthebbers verboden waren. Eriks Esenwalds was viertien jaar en hij was er bij. Hij zong zich vrij.Een componist die aan het begin van zijn studie alle deuren ziet opengaan, zal nieuwe indrukken als een spons opzuigen. En...
A "singing revolution" of vocal magic from Polyphony, Stephen Layton and Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds.
The Latvian struggle for independence from the Soviet Union has been dubbed the “Singing Revolution”, in which freedom fighters raised their voices in a chorus of forbidden songs.
Australian concert-goers have sampled the mesmerising choral sound of the Baltic as championed by Stephen Layton...
Eriks Esenvalds (b. 1977) is a Latvian composer who, according to the notes, comes from a new Latvia free of all repressive Socialist Realism strictures. Yet his music is hardly avant-garde either, and his teachers have included Jonathan Harvey and Richard Danielpour, among others, in a very cosmopolitan set. But his music will inevitably remind any listener of Arvo Pärt or earlier John Taverner...
'When composing a work, I give myself to the temptation of the creative work -- a journey, whose twisting roads persistently, but convincingly, bring me to the final sounds of the score.
'Only then do I exhale,' says Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds (born 1977 at Priekule) whose orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works have been performed in Europe and the USA.
Esenvalds will spend two...