Komitas: Piano & Chamber Music / Ayrapetyan, Sergeev

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
March 10, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KOMITAS
    • PERFORMER
      Ayrapetyan, Sergeev
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2017
    • UPC
      747313972029
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP720
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Manushaki of Vagharshapat

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    2. No. 2. Yerangi of Yerevan

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    3. No. 3. Unabi of Shushi. No. 4. Marali of Shushi

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    4. No. 5. Shushiki of Vagharshapat

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    5. No. 6. Het u Aradj of Karin

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    6. No. 7. Shoror of Karin

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    7. No. 1. Es Ahchikem (I'm a Girl)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    8. No. 2. Ervum em (I'm Burning)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    9. No. 3. Tun ari (Come Home Again)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    10. No. 4. Gutan'e hats em berum (Bread I Carry for the Ploughman)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    11. No. 5. Lusnak'e sari takin (The Moon under the Mountain)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    12. No. 6. Es Gisher, lusnak Gisher (This Night, the Moonlit Night)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    13. No. 7. Gzhur kuga verin Sarin (Water Flowing from the High Mountain)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    14. No. 1. Andzev ekav (Rain Has Come)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    15. No. 2. Andzev ekav (Rain Has Come) Variation

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    16. No. 3. Phapuri (Pchapuri)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    17. No. 4. Gzhur kuga verin Sarin (Water Flowing from the High Mountain)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    18. No. 5. Yar jan u Marjan (My Darling and Marjan)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    19. No. 6. Yar jan u Marjan (My Darling and Marjan) Variation

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    20. No. 7. Es Ahchikem (I'm a Girl)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    21. No. 8. Haralo (Kharalo)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    22. No. 9. Sar, Sar (The Mountain, The Mountain)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    23. No. 10. Sar, Sar (The Mountain, The Mountain) Variation

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    24. No. 11. Arev, Arev (The Sun, the Sun)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    25. No. 12. Pies Zhohovrdakan Hokov (Piece in the National Spirit)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    26. Msho-Shoror

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Mikael Ayrapetyan

    27. Chinar Es (You Are a Tree) (arr. A. Gabrielian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    28. Al Aylukhs (The Scarlet Shawl) (arr. A. Gabrielian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    29. Dsirani dsaṙ (Tsirani Tsar, The Apricot Tree) (arr. A. Gabrielian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    30. Akh, Maral djan (Ah, Sweet Maral) (arr. A. Shamschian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    31. K'eler, tsoler (Keler, tsoler, He Walked, Shining) (arr. K. Dombaev for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    32. Kṙunk (Krounk, The Crane) (arr. S.Z. Aslamazian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan

    33. Kak'avi erg (Kagavik, The Song of the Partridge) (arr. A. Gabrielian for violin and piano)

      Composer: Komitas Vardapet

      Performer: Vladimir Sergeev, Mikael Ayrapetyan


Komitas was one of the first Armenian musicians to undergo classical Western musical training, in Berlin, in addition to music education in his own country. He published both folksong collections and writings on Armenian church melodies, and his work laid the foundations for the development of a clearly defined national musical style. The Seven Folk Dances evoke the specific timbres of Armenian instruments, the Seven Songs for Piano are fleeting and lyrical while the Twelve Children’s Pieces based on folk-themes are beautifully crisp. Msho-Shoror is one of the most ancient of all Armenian dances.

REVIEW:

These days the most widely known Armenian composers are probably Khatchaturyan and Babajanian but, if you want to hear music that really evokes the scenery, people and cultural heritage of Armenia, look for the works of Komitas – a composer generally regarded as the founder of the Armenian national school of music.

...it is difficult to imagine a specific piano and acoustic better suited to performance of this music and, unless finding this was achieved purely by luck (which I doubt) the search must have taken somebody - probably Mikael Ayrapetyan himself - considerable effort. Whoever it was the results do him much credit.

The last seven pieces were not intended as a set – but composed individually during the period 1899 to 1911 and arranged here for violin and piano by four Armenian composers (including two who were founder members of the Komitas Quartet, referred to above). These are all beautifully and atmospherically played here by Ayrapetyan and a Russian violinist who seems to have a considerable affinity for the Armenian style (although his performance of ‘The Apricot Tree’, which comes third, does not quite displace that of Chilingirian in my affections). Several of these pieces have been arranged for other combinations but they work very well on violin and piano.

Booklet notes are excellent and in English and German. The only problem with this CD is that attempting to listen to all the piano music together is rather too much of a good thing. Interesting though the pieces are, ideally one needs rather greater instrumental variety and it would have been preferable to have the violin and piano pieces spread throughout the disc rather than collected at the end. Perhaps this can most easily be achieved if your CD player allows for random track sequence or programming. At any rate, it is not much of a problem and I can strongly recommend exploring this illuminating and beautifully recorded disc.

-- MusicWeb International