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NEW CD RELEASE

Sinfonietta Rīga: Dzenītis, Buravickis, Leimane, Paidere

Performers

Sinfonietta Rīga
Conductor Normunds Šnē
Aigars Raumanis, saxophone

Series

"Latvian composers"

Release date

10.12.2021

Compositions included in the album

Andris Dzenītis

"Euphoria"

Platon Buravicky

"Plastmasas temperatūra" / "Temperature of Plastics"

Linda Leimane

"Ray-Bows"

Ruta Paidere

Tempera

The Sinfonietta Rīga state chamber orchestra was founded relatively recently, in 2006. This selection of compositions written for the orchestra and its conductor, Normunds Šnē, are even younger: Ruta Paidere’s Tempera is from 2012, Andris Dzenītis composed Euphoria in 2017, Aigars Raumanis and Sinfonietta Rīga first performed the Temperature of Plastics concerto for saxophone and chamber orchestra by Platons Buravickis in 2019, and Linda Leimane’s Ray-Bows also dates to 2019, although it premiered only in 2021. In the context of cultural history, fifteen years is as brief as a breath of air. But in reality, it can be a long time, especially in theatre, where everything can change in a matter of fifteen years. And likewise, of course, in cinema and dance. But nor does music lag behind, as evidenced by the large number of new works created for the Sinfonietta Rīga chamber orchestra. In a span of fifteen years, promising and provocative young modernists become classics, and they are joined by a new generation of composers; at the same time, it turns out that the teachers of the aforementioned classics are also still actively working. In this sense, too, the selection of composers represented on this album is significant: two of them are of the generation of avantgardists born in the 1970s, while the other two came to prominence approximately fifteen years later.

/Armands Znotiņš/

Recorded at: Riga Recording Studio, July 2021

Recording producer: Normunds Slava

Editing, mixing, mastering: Normunds Slava, Normunds Šnē

Executive producer: Egīls Šēfers