Distant Light

Even as the Russian revolution
unfurled outside his window,
Prokofiev maintained work on his
‘Vision Fugitives’ – snapshots of
life and feeling, by turns mournful
and mischievous and surely among
the most elegant and revealing of
Prokofiev’s works. The very human
foibles of Prokofiev’s miniatures
are countered by the heavenly ingle
span of ‘Distant Light’, the violin
concerto by Latvian Peteris Vasks
that is fast becoming a modern
classic.