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Winter voting of Kilograms of Culture 2025

On Wednesday, January 14, the winter voting for Latvian Public Media’s annual culture award “Kilograms of Culture 2025” began. Voting will be open until January 25 at 11:59 PM on the public media portal LSM.lv. The winter voting includes several events in which the State Choir “Latvija” plays a significant role. In the category MUSIC…
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The closing concert of the 28th International Sacred Music Festival, BUDDHA PASSION, is among the nominees for the 2025 Great Music Award!

At a press conference on Wednesday, January 14, the jury of the Great Music Award announced the nominees for the 2025 Great Music Award as well as the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards. The 2025 Great Music Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to organist Larisa Bulava and composer and musicologist Georgs Pelēcis.…
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Beloniel: Aeronauts

Beloniel: Aeronauts Latvian National Symphony Orchestra State Choir LATVIJA Insomnio Ensemble (Netherlands) Jan Hage (organ, Netherlands) Conductor Rene Gulikers (Netherlands) Composer – Bertold Beloniel (1943-2017, USA) CD1 Sinfonia Cosmologica Organ Sonata A Giardano Bruno Sonata (I, II, III) CD2 Infinity – Edge. transcendental Requiem (Part One, Part Two)   Published: 12.12.2023. Publisher: encora Pirkt

Choir Chamber Opera for Children EJ NU EJ by Laura Jēkabsone

EJ NU EJ is a story about a city boy who experiences a wide range of emotions — while riding a tram or visiting his grandmother’s seaside country home, thinking about his father’s sleep or an old fence gnawed by the tooth of time. Reflections and feelings that appear suddenly, a readiness for exciting adventures…
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CREDO

CREDO State Choir LATVIJA Conductor Māris SIRMAIS List of works: Richard Strauss 1.Deutsche Motette Op 62 Sven-David Sandström Four songs of love 2. Let him kiss me 3. Until the daybreak 4. Awake, O north wind 5. His left hand Olivier Messiaen, arr. Clytus Gottwald 6. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus Ambrož Čopi 7. He…
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State Choir LATVIJA nominated for the Latvian Grand Music Award 2023

On January 10th in press conference the jury of The Grand Music Award announced nominees for this year. In the category CONCERT OF THE YEAR, the performance of Hector Berlioz’s Requiem on August 26 in Riga Cathedral was nominated. The monumental masterpiece was performed by State Choir LATVIJA, Orchestra RĪGA, Latvian National Symphony orchestra, tenor…
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State Choir LATVIJA returns to Philharmonic Hall Szczecin

State Choir LATVIJA has returned to Philharmonic Hall Szczecin in Poland where we where honored to perform Beethoven’s 9th Symfony at the Opening Concert of the concert hall in 2014. On October 1, 2021, celebrating the International Music day, together with Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and soloists – soprano Iwona Sobotka (Poland), mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis (Poland),…
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AETERNUM

AETERNUM: Latvian composers for the Centenary of Latvia Performers: State Choir “Latvija”Māris Sirmais – conductor Compositions: Ēriks Ešenvalds “Rasa (The Dew) Irīna Mihailovska “Uguns rituāls” (Fire Ritual) Valts Pūce “Dziesmu svētkos” (At the Song Festival) Andris Dzenītis “No debesīm” (From the Sky) Pēteris Vasks “Mūsu kalni” (Our Mountains) Rihards Zaļupe “Sauciens vējā” (A Call in…
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CONCERT VIDEO: ARVO PÄRT “ADAM’S LAMENT”

For only two weeks, from April 2 to 16, a recording of “Adam’s Lament” by the legendary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is available on Sinfonietta Riga web page. The Concert in which State Choir LATVIJA and Sinfonietta Riga under the baton of Māris Sirmais performed was recorded on The Good Friday, April 2, 2021, at…
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Song “Prayer: Dodi mieru mūsu brāļiem” has recieved MundoBSO award in nomination “Best song”

We are truly honored for the prestigious World Film Music XX MundoBSO Award in the nomination “Best Song” for film by Dzintars Dreibergs Blizzard of Souls, for the theme Prayer: “Dodi Mieru Mūsu Brāļiem”. We are grateful and satisfied that in such a wide competition the jury has recognized the choral a cappella music as…
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Concert “World Premiers” is now available in video format

We are pleased to announce that in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Information Systems, the concert of the 23rd International Sacred Music Festival “World Premieres” can now be watched in video format: http://www.diva.lv/Contents/Item/Display/38633  In the concert, which took place on September 2, 2020, in Riga St. Peter’s Church, the world premieres of four composers…
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Wach production “Evolution”

One year ago, the State Choir LATVIJA traveled to Bochum, Germany, where, within the framework of the Ruhrtriennale interdisciplinary arts festival, it participated in an ambitious production entitled “Evolution”. The production was based on Gyorgy Ligeti’s Requiem. In addition to the State Choir LATVIJA, participants included the Bochum Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Sloan, soprano…
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Raimonda Paula dziedāšanas svētki koncertzālē “Lielais dzintars”

Raimonds PAULS, piano Conductor Māris SIRMAIS Liepāja Simphonyc orchestra State choir Latvija Oskars Petrauskis, saxophone (3,6) Ansis Bētiņš, tenor (5) Eduards Vācietis, baritone (10) © 2019 Mikrofona ieraksti 1. Aiz ezera augsti kalni2. Tautas acis3. Tēma no k/f Ilgais ceļš kāpās4. Kaligula5. Dzel manī sauli6. Mersedesa7. Meža gulbji8. Latgalei9. Vecpuiša dziesma10. Leo dziesma11. Atziedi, dvēsele12.…
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THE SPIRIT OF THE ROSE

RAIMONDA PAULA kora dziesmas Valsts Akadēmiskais koris LATVIJA RAIMONDS PAULS, klavieres diriģents MĀRIS SIRMAIS Inese Romancāne (13, 18), Irīna Mihailovska (5, 9, 13) Eduards Fiskovičs (18) Rūdolfs Bacāns (20) Released in 2016   ROZES GARS (veltījums Emīlam Dārziņam) Jānis Peters IZŠUJ MANI, MĀMULIŅA Leons Briedis GAISMIŅ, TECI MAN PA PRIEKŠU Leons Briedis TAURENIS LILIJAS KAUSĀ…
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From the Dim and Distant Past

Choral music by Ēriks EšenvaldsState Choir “Latvija”Conductor Maris Sirmais Ilze Zariņa (9), Asnate Rancāne (2, 8), Lauma Bērza (2, 8), Ēriks Zeps (2, 8), Altera Veritas (8), Aivars Krastiņš (2, 6, 8), Inga Lisovska (2), Sintija Šmite (6), Rūdolfs Bacāns (2, 6), Ansis Bētiņš (5, 6), Līga Vasiļjeva (5), Jānis Petrovskis (4, 6), Zane Šmite…
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