Vasks: Sala - Musica appassionata - Credo

Esthetic games as ends in themselves are far from the mind of the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. He believes in “L’art pour l’homme” [Art for mankind] rather than “L’art pour l’art” [Art for art’s sake]. He sees his music as a language of the soul: “Music is the most powerful of all the arts, because it is closest to the Divine. Music is indefinable, it is true, but sounds are able to express spirituality. This cannot be expressed in words. All around me, I hear talk about the body, but I want say: where is the spirit, the soul? Souls are as overgrown as a jungle. This is why I try to preserve a ray of light in my sounds."