Armenian Rhapsody | BIS BISCD1948

Armenian Rhapsody

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1948

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th August 2011

Contents

Artists

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan (duduk)
Vache Sharafyan (piano)
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Eduard Topchjan

Works

Khachaturian, Aram

Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor for cello and orchestra

Komitas, Sogomon

Krunk (The Crane)

Sharafyan, Vache

Suite for Cello and Orchestra

Zakarian, Suren

Monograph for cello and chamber orchestra

Artists

Alexander Chaushian (cello)
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan (duduk)
Vache Sharafyan (piano)
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Eduard Topchjan

About

This disc offers a rare opportunity to sample music by Armenian composers, here represented by three works for cello and orchestra.

Naturally, Khachaturian is among the selected composers, with his impassioned and expansive Concerto-Rhapsody from 1963 as the disc's opening work. This is followed by Suren Zakarian’s Monograph for cello and chamber orchestra,

A Suite for cello and chamber orchestra by Zakarian's younger colleague, Vache Sharafyan follows. The composer's aim has been 'to create a sense of the perpetual cycle of life and history'.  Sharafyan has also arranged the disc's epilogue, an atmospheric arrangement of the song Krunk (Crane). In this version for trio, the melody is “sung” by the cello and accompanied by a piano and a duduk, an Armenian double-reed woodwind instrument often heard in film scores.

The UK-based Alexander Chaushian, cello soloist in all of these works, is Armenian by birth, and is supported by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra under their principal conductor Eduard Topchjan.

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