Works for Piano Trio

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) has earned much international acclaim through his deeply spiritual works of choral music, symphonies and concertos. Vasks' list of works also includes several pieces of chamber music. This album by Trio Palladio from Latvia includes Vasks' works for the piano trio. Episodi e Canto perpetuo dating from 1985 is one of Vasks' key works in chamber music. The work is dedicated to Olivier Messiaen and was written during time when Latvia was still experiencing the Soviet times. The work has eight movements which are played consecutively. The work was inspired by Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, which was

used as a kind of a template when writing the work, but contain no musical references to Messiaen's music.