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Cover: Anton Bruckner – Latin Motets

Anton Bruckner

Latin Motets

Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava, conductor
Kristine Adamaite, organ

ODE 1362-2 · CD · November 2020

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Track listing

18 tracks · 58:38

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Anton Bruckner

  1. 1 Os Justi (WAB 30) 4:10
  2. 2 Christus factus est (WAB 11) 5:28
  3. 3 Locus iste (WAB 23) 3:13
  4. 4 Ave Maria (WAB 6) 4:05
  5. 5 Libera me (F minor) (WAB 21) 2:18
  6. Kronstorfer Messe (WAB 146)
  7. 6 I. Kyrie 1:39
  8. 7 II. Sanctus 1:35
  9. 8 III. Benedictus 1:06
  10. 9 IV. Agnus Dei 2:22
  11. 10 Tantum Ergo (WAB 32) 3:07
  12. 11 Tantum Ergo (WAB 41) 2:19
  13. 12 Tantum Ergo (WAB 42) 2:42
  14. 13 Tantum Ergo (WAB 43) 1:35
  15. 14 Virga Jesse (WAB 52) 3:51
  16. 15 Pange lingua et Tantum ergo (WAB 33) 5:30
  17. 16 Salvum fac populum tuum (WAB 40) 3:23
  18. 17 Tota pulchra es Maria (WAB 46) 5:20
  19. 18 Vexilla Regis (WAB 51) 4:55

About this recording

Ondine is proud to release its 17th album together with the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir and conductor Sigvards Kļava dedicated to a cappella words by Anton Brucker.

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) is known as one of the greatest of 19th century symphonists. Yet, also choral music formed an integral part of the composer’s output. This album includes a selection of smaller choral works written between the years 1848 and 1892. Many of these works were long forgotten. Yet after a long stretch on the periphery of the choral world, Bruckner’s motets have now finally returned to a broader consciousness.

The Latvian Radio Choir (LRC) ranks among the top professional chamber choirs in Europe and its refined taste for musical material, fineness of expression and vocal of unbelievably immense compass have charted it as a noted brand on the world map. The repertoire of LRC ranges from the Renaissance music to the most sophisticated scores by modern composers; and it could be described as a sound laboratory – the singers explore their skills by turning to the mysteries of traditional singing, as well as to the art of quartertone and overtone singing and other sound production techniques. The choir has established a new understanding of the possibilities of a human voice; one could also say that the choir is the creator of a new choral paradigm: every singer is a distinct individual with his or her own vocal signature and roles in performances.

Sigvards Kļava is one of the most outstanding Latvian conductors, also a professor of conducting and producer, music director of the Latvian Radio Choir since 1992. As a result of Sigvards Klava’s steady efforts, the Latvian Radio Choir has become an internationally recognized, vocally distinctive collective, where each singer possesses a creative individuality. Under Sigvards’ guidance, the choir has recorded a number of choral works by little known or completely forgotten composers of the past, as well as formed a friendly collaboration with a number of notable Latvian composers. Sigvards Klava is a professor at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music. Klava is a multiple winner of the Latvian Great Music Award.

Features

Sleeve notes in English, lyrics in Latin and in English translation.

The artists

Latvian Radio Choir

The Latvian Radio Choir is a full-time professional chamber choir founded in 1940. Chief Conductor Sigvards Kļava and Conductor Kaspars Putniņš have led the choir since 1992. The ensemble's repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the present day, with a primary focus on exploring the capabilities of the human voice and seeking to extend its limits. A major part of the repertoire is dedicated to contemporary music and composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The choir is also open to creative experiments and often participates in dramatic performances and multimedia projects. The ensemble regularly commissions works from leading Latvian composers such as Pēteris Vasks and Ēriks Ešenvalds.

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Sigvards Klava

Sigvards Kļava began working with the Latvian Radio Choir in 1987 and was appointed its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director in 1992. As one of Latvia's most prolific choral conductors, Sigvards Kļava has collaborated with every leading choir and orchestra in the country, performing the great works of the standard repertoire in addition to conducting most premieres of new choral works by Latvian composers. He has recorded numerous albums with the Latvian Radio Choir. Sigvards Kļava has also been Chief Conductor at a number of Latvian and Nordic song festivals. He is a co-founder of the Latvian New Music Festival ARENA and serves as a member of its artistic board. He teaches young conductors at the Choral Department of the Latvian Academy of Music and the Choral College of the Riga Lutheran Cathedral. Sigvards Kļava appears as a guest conductor with leading European choirs. He has received the Latvian Great Music Award and the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers Award.

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