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Debussy / Komitas: Music in Time of War
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano), Ruzan Mantashyan (soprano), Katia Skanavi (piano), Thomas Adès (piano)
the real thrust of this album lies in its championing of Armenia’s musical patron saint Komitas Vardapet, who single-handedly founded an Armenian musical tradition through collecting his country’s... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Special Award for Curatorial Achievement
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An attractive sequence of folk-inflected works by Georgian, Armenian, Greek, Hungarian and British-born composers in imaginative arrangements for solo cello and string orchestra by Alessio Pianelli...strongly... —
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This enormously enjoyable debut solo recording from the Armenian mezzo comes courtesy of Decca’s ‘Mentored by Bartoli’ series, and Abrahamyan certainly shares the Roman diva’s effervescence... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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My Armenia
Dedicated to the 100th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
Sergey Khachatryan (violin) & Lusine Khachatryan (piano)
Komitas’s glory lay in his choral arrangements of folk songs, but is represented here by the two arrangements for violin and piano and seven for piano solo: each has a truthful simplicity and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Tjeknavorian - Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin / fiddle), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulrich Edelmann, Pablo González
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Mother of Light: Armenian Hymns & Chants in Praise of Mary
Ishkhan Bayrakdarian (percussion), Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Ani Aznavoorian (cello), Siroun Kojakian (soprano), Marie-Jean Zaatar (soprano)
Coro Vox Aeterna, Anna Hamre
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Sergeev’s sound is warm and full, and Ayrapetyan ably evokes the multi-instrument ensemble on which Komitas would have first encountered this music, implying pensive plucks, low growls and wistful... —
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With Malice Toward None
Tracy Silverman (electric violin), Pamela Z (vocals), Mark Wingate (tape), Joan DerHovsepian (viola), Arsen Petrosyan (duduk), Pejman Hadadi (percussion), Eve Beglarian (tape), Apollo Chamber Players
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