Famed Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča has released her latest album entitled Meditation (Deutsche Grammophon, DG 479 2071). Featuring works of a more spiritual and meditative nature, Garanča is joined by Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken and the Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by Karel Mark Chichon.
The collection also features works by Latvian composers – a new arrangement of Uģis Prauliņš’ ‘Dievaines’, and Pēteris Vasks’ ‘Dusi dusi’ and ‘Paldies tev vēlā saule’.
Garanča will perform works from this album on tour in Europe in October 2014, and returns to Carmen at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2015.
For more information, please visit Elīna Garanča’s website and her biography on the Deutsche Grammophon site.
See the music video for ‘Dievaines’ here.
Track listing
- Gounod, Charles: Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile: Sanctus
- Gounod, Charles: Repentir O Divine Redeemer
- Prauliņš , Uģis: Dievaines
- Mascagni, Pietro: Cavalleria rusticana: Regina coeli laetare
- Mascagni, Pietro: Cavalleria rusticana: Ave Maria (Adapted from Intermezzo sinfonico)
- Gomez, William: Ave Maria
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Vesperae solemnes de confessore, K. 339: Laudate Dominum
- Bizet, Georges: Agnus Dei (based on Intermezzo from L Arlesienne Suite No. 2)
- Puccini, Giacomo: Salve Regina
- Adam, Adolphe: Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)
- Vasks, Pēteris: Silent Songs, No 2 Dusi dusi
- Vasks, Pēteris: Silent Songs, No 4 Paldies tev vēlā saule
- Allegri, Gregorio: Miserere mei, Deus
- Caccini, Giulio (attr.) / Vavilov, Vladimir: Ave Maria
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To Egils Kaljo
Australia’s ‘ABC Classic FM’ radio have started broadcasting Urg’a Prauli’na “Dievaines”.
Is this available on CD recording.