Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Christopher on Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:41

Title: Emilis Melngailis (1874-1954, Latvia)
Post by: Christopher on Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:41
The Latvian Music Information Centre (LMIC) has just released an album of songs for mezzo-soprano and piano by the Latvian composer Emilis Melngailis (1874-1954).  The album is called "and a birch and grasses..."

Ieva Parša - mezzo-soprano
Andrejs Osokins - piano

https://www.lmic.lv/en/skani/catalogue?id=223 (https://www.lmic.lv/en/skani/catalogue?id=223)
brochure - https://www.lmic.lv/uploads/images/album/brochures/20220331_223_LMIC%2060%20iTunes%20booklet.pdf (https://www.lmic.lv/uploads/images/album/brochures/20220331_223_LMIC%2060%20iTunes%20booklet.pdf)

It comes combined with music from another composer, Kristaps Pētersons, born in 1982.

(https://www.lmic.lv/uploads/images/album/20220331_223_LMIC136_1.jpg)