Epifania

Epifania is dedicated to the Finnish conductor Juha Kangas. We have been close friends since 1991 when he directed the first performance of my 1st Symphony ’Balsis · Stimmen’.

Epifania is a brief, tranquil composition with an extremely measured sonorous string sound primarily played con sordino. A lyrical theme is introduced at the beginning which is varied during the central section with cumulative exhilaration, only to reappear a third time in inverted form in the final section, accompanied by the divisi violins playing an old Latvian folk song. As an unspoken motto above the music, I can see the question: what remains at the end of a life full of music? Pēteris Vasks