Armenian Songs for Children / Bayrakdarian

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Label
Avie Records
Release Date
June 18, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GANATCHIAN TOUMAJAN VARTABED
    • PERFORMER
      Bayrakdarian, Choate, Furuta, Harutyunyan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 18, 2021
    • UPC
      822252244922
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2449
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Children's
    Works ⌄

    1. 6 Children's Songs (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    2. 5 Lullaby Fragments (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    3. K'un eghir palas (Sleep My Child) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    4. Yeraz (Dream) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    5. Aknay Oror (You are Beautiful) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    6. Manukneru Hayr Mer (Children's Prayer) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    7. Kak'avi erg (Song of the Partridge) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    8. P'ayte Dziuk (Little Wooden Horse) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    9. Dzidzernak (The Swallow) (arr. A. Avanesov for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    10. Bjingō

      Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    11. Dzidzernak (The Swallow)

      Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    12. Tsaykerk (Serenade)

      Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    13. Khaghagh Gisher (Nocturne)

      Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    14. K'un eghir palas (Sleep My Child)

      Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate

    15. Ōrim, Ōrim (Sleep, sleep) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    16. Salnjakh Em Tsker (I have placed the cradle at the plum tree) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    17. Ēyur Genem (I sing lullaby to you) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    18. Bar-bar Genem (Bounce, bounce) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    19. Allabidig (The Scarecrow) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    20. 2 Playsongs (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    21. 2 Lullabies (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    22. Hayrururi (Rocking) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    23. Nenni Ěsim (I Sing to You) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    24. Collection of Alphabet Songs (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    25. 4 Children's Songs (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Mihran Toumajan

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    26. Ari, Im Sokhak (Come, My Nightingale) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    27. Erekha T'ṛts'nelu Erk (Bouncing Song) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, flute and harp)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ray Furuta, Ellie Choate

    28. Nanig (Sleep) (arr. J. Hodian for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate

    29. Ōrōra (Lullaby) (arr. for voice, duduk and harp)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Rouben Harutyunyan, Ellie Choate


Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. 29 tracks trace an arc from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, with songs and transcriptions by the country’s beloved folk composer Gomidas Vartabed, Parsegh Ganatchian who joined the diaspora in Lebanon, and Ganatchian’s contemporary Mihran Toumajan. For Isabel, these evocative songs span two centuries and five generations. Sung by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, and now to her own children, Isabel’s Armenian Songs have an appeal to children of all ages.

REVIEW:

The arrangements are enlivened by their variety, featuring not only flute and harp but the less familiar and quite haunting duduk. All this said, there are a lot of lullabies on the program, in similar tempos, and one wonders whether an "Armenian Songs for Children and Others" program, with other examples of the abundant folk-influenced material in the Armenian tradition, might have been a bit livelier. Certainly, though, listeners with children are invited to try the album out.

– AllMusicGuide.com (James Manheim)