Arias of Love & Sorrow / Hakobyan, Fischer, Orbelian, Kaunas City Symphony

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Gevorg Hakobyan is a rising star on the international operatic stage. His deep, resonant voice brings drama and color to every aria on this album....

Gevorg Hakobyan is a rising star on the international operatic stage. His deep, resonant voice brings drama and color to every aria on this album. Three unusual selections in Armenian – including Mosi’s Aria from Anoush, the most important opera in the Armenian language – enhance this debut recording. Drawing from favorite operas such as Verdi’s Otello and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Arias of Love & Sorrow joins recent Delos releases including Oksana Dyka’s In Questa Reggia, Oksana Volkova’s Poison D’Amour and Kristian Benedikt’s Tenore di forza in bringing new and captivating voices to fans of opera.

REVIEW:

Armenian baritone Gevorg Hakobyan has a wonderfully rich, colorful, dark baritone with a solid lower register and a ringing top that can only be a boon for the contemporary opera world. He has not yet sung in this country; we can hope that will be change soon. Comparisons with Ettore Bastianini and Anselmo Colzani are fully justified. He also has some timbral similarity to Sergei Leiferkus, but Hakobyan has his own unique sound as well.

We are given arias from Verdi’s Otello, Nabucco, and Ballo in Maschera, Giordano’s Andrea Chenier, and Puccini’s Tabarro as the Italian portion of the program. He sings these all with imagination and a solid legato. His Russian arias (from Aleko, Prince Igor, The Tsar’s Bride, The Queen of Spades) benefit from his fluency in Russian. Incidentally, he sings Tomsky’s harrowing aria from Act 1 where he tells the Countess’s back story rather than Yeletzsky’s more romantic aria later on. With the baritone’s precise diction and exciting high G at the end, it’s one of the best selections on the program. Hakobyan also treats us to three arias by Armenian composers Levon Khodya-Eynatyan and Armen Tigranian, displaying his consumate legato and keen ability to create a character through song.

Delos habitually employs the Kaunas City Orchestra and for good reason. There are two conductors, John Fischer and Constantine Orbelian, probably because of the gap in recording sessions.

-- American Record Guide (David Reynolds)



Product Description:


  • Release Date: February 03, 2023


  • UPC: 013491357225


  • Catalog Number: DE 3572


  • Label: Delos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: Romantic, 20th Century, Contemporary


  • Composer: Tigran Chukhajian, Umberto Giordano, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Armen Tigranian, Giuseppe Verdi


  • Conductor: Constantine Orbelian, John Fisher


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan



Works:


  1. Otello, Act II: Vanne! la tua meta gia vedo - Credo in un dio crude!

    Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  2. Andrea Chénier: “Nemico della patria”

    Composer: Umberto Giordano

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  3. Arshak II: Arioso: Es ktsankam

    Composer: Levon Khodja-Eynatyan

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  4. Il tabarro: Nulla! Silenzio!

    Composer: Giacomo Puccini

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  5. Aleko: Ves' tabar spit

    Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  6. Nabucco, Act IV: Recitative: Son pur queste mie membra? Ah! fra le selve … Dio di Guida!

    Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  7. Un ballo in maschera, Act I: Alzati, là tuo figlio … Eri tu che macchiavi

    Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  8. Prince Igor, Act II: Aria: Ni sna ne otdykha

    Composer: Alexander Borodin

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  9. The Tsar's Bride, Act I: Ne tot teper ya stal…Kuda ty, udal prezhnyaya, devalas

    Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  10. The Queen of Spades, Act I: Odnazhdy v Versale au jeu de la Reine

    Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  11. Anush: Aria: Dushman dardzanq en harsanqic

    Composer: Armen Tigranian

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher


  12. David-Bek, Act II: Aria: Oh, im chqnakh

    Composer: Armen Tigranian

    Ensemble: Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Gevorg Hakobyan

    Conductor: John Fisher