Pēteris Vasks

Años más tarde, en la época que trabajaba en Mudanzas, la canción Lïdzenum Ainavas se convirtió durante algunos meses en lo que más escuchaba.

Durante la correspondencia con Roberto, sumergida en pleno proceso creativo, recuperé Lïdzenum Ainavas; empecé a investigar un poco más sobre Vasks. 

«The subjecte of nature is also of key importance in Plainscapes.» 

Plainscapes es un disco del Coro de la Radio Letona, que recopila piezas de Vasks insiradas en los paisajes letones.

«I am fortunare that I live in Latvia, where I can enjoy the turn of the beautiful seasons. There are other exotic and temping lands where there is always summer, but we can rejoice at the changing rhythms of the year. In the autumn I look out my window and see yellow leaves. I wait for the first snow, and then for the birds to return. I cannot imagine my life in a closed room. That is why I composed Plainscapes – you can see a great distance on the plains. You can look up and see the clouds or, better yet, the stars. I have noticed that people don’t really care to look at the stars, perhaps they don´t  have time to do so. But everyone should. First and foremost this applies to our politicians, who apparently have never heard of such a thing as ideals. Pherhaps they have thoroughly forgotten ideals. I am so fortunate to stand on my native land and watch the stars. Something of this is Plainscapes. And there´s another thing – music can sometimes heal and calm the individual, and here we have the feeling of peace and quiet which so very much goes missing in our lives. We´re always in a big rush. I want people to stop, to slow down. Silence is so beautiful.»

«My music, contains a great deal of idealism. I want to tell people about beautiful ideals, high goals, show them that there is not only the drab everyday, that there is more than mere pessimism… Every honest composer searches for a way out of the crises of his time… shows how humanity can overcome the passion for self-annihilation that flares up. Perhaps my music contains sadness, but it also contains a great deal of optimism and idealism. Beauty and harmony are rare in life, but in music they are possible. I go through pessimism finally to confirm at the end that I say ‘Yes’ until my last breath to the beauty of the world.”