Ēriks Ešenvalds: St. Luke Passion & Other Sacred Works

Featuring

Sigvards Kļava
Jānis Kurševs
Ieva Parša
Daumants Kalniņš
Ieva Ezeriete
Līga Paegle

Aleksandrs Maijers
Inga Martinsone
Kristīne Barkovska
Inita Vindava
Rūdolfs Bērtiņš
Kārlis Rūtentāls
Normunds Ķirsis
Jānis Kokins
Ferijs Millers
Eriks Esenvalds
Sinfonietta Riga
Latvian Radio Choir

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Recording & Production

The Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga, featured on this album, won a Grammy Award for their contribution to Arvo Pärt's album Adam's Lament.

Composer Biography

Ēriks Ešenvalds, an award-winning Latvian composer, studied at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga and was also a member of the Latvija State Choir.

Compositional Technique

Ešenvalds's choral works are primarily unaccompanied, though some feature brass band, saxophone quartet, percussion, or orchestral accompaniment, with textures ranging from three to twelve voice parts.

Performer Biography

The Latvian Radio Choir, a full-time professional chamber choir founded in 1940, has been led by Chief Conductor Sigvards Kļava and Conductor Kaspars Putniņš since 1992.

Performer Biography

Sigvards Kļava, the music director of the Latvian Radio Choir, is a professor of conducting and a multiple winner of the Latvian Grand Music Award.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Over 70% of Ēriks Ešenvalds's works are choral pieces, and his rich choral writing has been described as 'permanent ecstasy' and 'too ravishing to cope with'.