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The music of Peteris Plakidis, born in 1947, is rooted in the melodic character of Latvian folk music, which imbues all his works with a remarkable strength and beauty. Renaissance and Baroque polyphony and forms - such as fugue, chaconne, canon, and variation - provide the strong internal organization that binds together a remarkable and moving synthesis of disparate elements. Although Plakidis shares some points of contact with the "Holy Mystics" among other Baltic composers, such as Arvo Part and Peteris Vasks, his own music evokes the meditative power of nature and the distinct character of his Latvian roots. From these four works a unique voice emerges, a musical personality full of harmonic warmth, rhythmic excitement and dramatic lyricism.