Kim Kashkashian: Hayren - Music of Komitas and Tigran Mansurian (CD) 【ECM】

Kim Kashkashian brings Armenia’s leading contemporary composer to ECM New Series in a programme that also explores the roots of Armenian music. Compositions by Tigran Mansurian for viola and percussion, played by Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, receive their premiere recordings here, and frame a selection of Mansurian’s arrangements of the music of Komitas. Komitas (1869-1935) is revered by Armenians as his nation’s most brilliant songwriter. He was also more than this. Composer, priest, philosopher, poet, ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, writer of sacred and secular music that bridged the old and the new … The fine line that connects the melodic character of the most ancient Armenian music with the works of contemporary Armenian composers runs through Komitas.In his settings of the Komitas pieces, Mansurian shows us the rich soil from which his own music springs.

Kim Kashkashian - Viola
Robyn Schulkowsky - Percussion
Tigran Mansurian - Piano, Voice

【曲目】
01. Havik (1998)
02. Garun a
03. Krunk
04. Chinar es
05. Krunk
06. Hov arek
07 Hoy, Nazan
08. Krunk
09. Tsirani tsar
10. Oror
11. Antuni
12. Oror
13. Duet for viola and percussion (1998)

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編號：ECM1754
條碼：0028946183120