performed by The State Chamber Orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga and conductor Normunds Šnē

Grand Concert of Latvian Symphonic Music
January 29, 2022
Great Guild, Riga

Ray-bows II

Ieva Saliete – harpsichord,
Artūrs Noviks – accordion
Commissioned by Baltic Music Days.
Live recording by Latvian Radio.

Neparalēles (harpsichord & accordion, 2022)

composer Linda Leimane
premiered by Sinfonietta Rīga
conductor Normunds Šnē
at the Great Guild Hall
08.11.2014
Latvian Radio Klasika recording

Richard Cameron-Wolfe about "Guesstimations":

During my first listening to Linda Leimane's Chamber Symphony, I attempted to experience it (typically) as a linear event, progressing toward a climactic moment and conclusion. But I soon realized that this music was an entity, a kind of sonic object. My experience during the second listening was circular, comparable to a person slowly walking around a multi-textured sculpture. As with the perception of music unfolding over a period of time, I also could not "see" this entire sound-object at any moment. On third listening, I realized that I had not travelled full-circle around this sound-object, for I did not arrive where I had started. I realized that I was on an ever-mutating spiral.


Guesstimations

Supernova (for symphony orchestra, 2024). 
Performed by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, cond. Clement Power.
Concert recording, Tartu Vanemuine Concert Hall, 2024.04.28

Supernova

Unsuk Chin
Grafitti, pour ensemble 
Ensemble intercontemporain 
Tito Ceccherini, direction 

Enregistré le 27.11.2015 à la Philharmonie de Paris

Unsuk Chin, Grafitti

Recorded by Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (cond. Juozas Domarkas) and State Choir "Vilnius" in the National Philharmonic Hall. Sound Engineer Arūnas Zujus.

Winter Calligraphies for symphony orchestra and mixed choir (2016). Quite a few aspects of my interest in Japanese culture combine in this composition. It’s musical material was influenced by a coincidence that in 2016 we commemorate 20 years since the death of Toru Takemitsu, who happens to be one of my favorite composers. That encouraged my search of particular common attributes between distinct sound quality and modal structures found in Takemitsu’s works and my way of musical thinking and principles of articulation of sound quality. Three Japanese waka poems find their place within this composition. These poems are taken from a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets  (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu), which consists from verses by poets from the 9th and 10th centuries. All three poems (no. 31, 29, 28) are united by winter, as their main subject. Within the composition they serve as three different calligraphies that depict different apprehensions caused by the same image. While working with these texts I put my biggest effort to deal with their meaning rather than the syllabic structures. However, their meaning cannot be fully transmitted to the Western public due to a language barrier. Therefore, I tried to depict each keyword of these poems into specific textural shapes according to the rhetoric principles of music.

Winter Calligraphies (2016) for symphony orchestra and Mixed choir (Žiemos kaligrafijos)

Instrument of Speech

‘Mosaico' delves into the various elements of the accordion’s soundworld that the composer and performer explored together in numerous sessions, and can be heard either as a fragmented concert extemporization, or as a conceptual recording of the collaborative process.

Performed by 
Pietro Roffi - accordion, Italy.

Recorded at Raudondvaris Castle, Lithuania during the Composers+Summer Academy on 25 August 2017.

Recording produced by Dainius Kazilionis.

More info at www.composersplus.com.

Joshua Brown – Mosaico (for solo accordion)

Performed by Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor - Juozas Domarkas

per sense

"Corpi Celesti", for five voices(2014)
From the Book of madrigals "Il Libro dei Margini" © Casa Ricordi.

The piece represents the nightmare of being one of the people who jumped off the Twin Towers. It’s a dilatation of the 10 seconds flight (aerial sounds, disturbances in audio communications, several cuts) and a "cantus post mortem" at the end. This madrigal has no text.

Exaudi Vocal ensemble. Live recording of the WP at LSO St Luke's, London. Open Ear. BBC Radio 3.
 
Dedication: to the ones who reversed the sky

Edizioni Casa Ricordi

Corpi celesti

Kaspars Kurdeko percussion
Linda Leimane composition, electronics
Agnese Streļča mastering
Kaspars Kurdeko, Youth Choir Kamēr.. voices
part of the audiovisual installation "INTERMEDIATE STATE. MATTER"

Winter Calligraphies (2016) for symphony orchestra and Mixed choir (Žiemos kaligrafijos)

Andrius Maslekovas

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