The new Latvian chamber music album was recorded directly in the recording studio of the Liepāja Concert Hall and released under the auspices of the national record company Skani.
The musicians recorded the album in late October – early November, said Timur Thomson, the director of the concert hall. “It was a wonderful residence that moved and sang the concert hall in silence,” he said.
The title of the album reveals the closeness of both composers and performers to nature as a source of inspiration. I. Parša revealed that the photo of the disc cover was taken during a walk with his son, going to the sea in Bolderāja.
E. Melngailis is well known for his choir songs, he has collected melodies of folk songs all over Latvia, but chamber music is played less often.
E. Parša has offered to record solo songs by E. Melngailis. “When I asked Professor Arnold Klotiņš to write the introduction to the album, he said – bravo! Because Melngailis did not have such a sample.
The singers have chosen little solo songs because there is nothing to show vocals. But it fell on my heart as very poetic and vivid, everyone has their own story, ”the singer pointed out.
A. Osokin asked K. Peterson to write music for the piano, which he did. Eve comes to me and says she has “Smilgas”. There is a solo voice and a solo piano. What is missing? Duets. Let’s go to Kristapa again. He wrote a fantastic song with Weidenbaum’s words, “said the pianist. “Two outstanding Latvian composers are talking, there is a dialogue from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.”
The concert was gorgeously complemented by the music of Bartók and Mozart, as Mozart’s variations on the children’s song echoed E. Melngailis’ warm and heartfelt songs for children, but Bartoks, who, like Melngailis, was a researcher of folk songs, echoes A. Peterson’s work.
