Arutiunian: Complete Piano Works / Melikyan

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
January 13, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ARUTIUNIAN, ALEXANDER
    • PERFORMER
      Hayk Melikyan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2017
    • UPC
      747313971824
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP718
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Armenian Dance

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    2. Pastoral

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    3. Theme and Variations

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    4. No. 1. Andante

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    5. No. 2. Moderato assai

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    6. No. 3. Maestoso. Allegro

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    7. Prelude-Poem

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    8. I. Invention

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    9. II. Chorale

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    10. III. Fugue

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    11. Humoresque

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    12. No. 1. The Wind Blew in the Mountains

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    13. No. 2. Ararat Valley Evening

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    14. No. 3. Sassoun Dance

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    15. I. Moderato

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    16. II. Adagio

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    17. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    18. No. 1. Adagio

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    19. No. 2. Allegro agitato

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    20. No. 3. Moderato

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    21. No. 4. Adagio

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    22. No. 5. Moderato

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    23. No. 6. Allegro energico

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    24. I. A Joke

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    25. II. Autumn Waltz

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    26. III. Cheerful Promenade

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    27. IV. A Sad Song

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    28. V. Lyrical Waltz

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    29. VI. Naughty Girl

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    30. VII. A Story

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan

    31. VIII. Spring Mood

      Composer: Alexander Arutiunian

      Performer: Hayk Melikyan


Alexander Arutiunian was one of the most prominent composers in the USSR, one of the representatives of the Armenian ‘Mighty Handful’ and much admired by Shostakovich. An accomplished pianist, Arutiunian created virtuoso piano works that are rooted in Armenian folk traditions while expressing, in the words of Hayk Melikyan, “a rich palette of emotions reflecting both his time and the history of his nation”. From the Armenian Dance of 1935, with its delicate, transparent texture and strong rhythmic drive, via the more dissonant, neo-classical Polyphonic Sonata, the descriptive Musical Pictures, and the almost Debussyan approach to tonality in the Six Moods, to the simple and beautifully crafted Album for Children of 2004, the works on this recording, the first complete edition, span Arutunian’s entire compositional career.