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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:59 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mikael Ayrapetyan is a pianist, composer, producer and teacher, as well as a researcher and public figure. He has done much to popularise Armenian classical music all over the world with his Secrets of Armenia musical project, which began during his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Tigranian: Works for Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:55 minutes | 846 MB | Genre: Classical
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Nikoghayos Tigranian belongs to the first generation of composers and folk song collectors who laid the foundation of an Armenian national style. Tigranian’s piano transcriptions of folk dances is perhaps his most important legacy, emulating folk instruments and capturing and preserving colourful depictions of Armenian folk life that are simple in texture and rich with harmonic and melodic detail. His interest also extended to Persian improvisational vocal-instrumental poems or mugams; expressive pieces that influenced contemporaries and subsequent generations of composers.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan, Yulia Ayrapetyan, Vladimir Sergeev, Demian Fokin – Spendiarov: Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:12:00 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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ALEXANDER AFANASYEVICH SPENDIAROV (SPENDIARIAN) was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique. Spendiarovs music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence and he vitally enriched the expressive range of Armenian music as a composer, pedagogue and champion of his contemporaries. His piano works, both for solo instrument and for chamber forces, show the range of his gifts, not least his romances and lullabies, and range across his entire compositional life. Spendiarovs songs, heard here in piano transcriptions by Villy Sargsyan, perfectly preserve the unique timbres and textures of these works. MIKAEL AYRAPETYAN is a pianist, composer and producer. He is also the founder and artistic director of the music project Secrets of Armenia, which aims to increase international awareness of Armenian classical music, and actively organizes concerts featuring Armenian music in venues around the world, for which he is producer, artistic director and pianist. Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. His recording of Eduard Bagdasarians piano and violin music [GP664] earned a five-star rating from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanians 24 Preludes [GP760] was praised as a discovery by both Classica and Piano News.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Çuhacıyan: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:35 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tigran Chukhajian is highly significant in the history of Armenian music: he was the first composer to combine Western and Eastern cultures, and was referred to as the “Armenian Verdi” amongst his contemporaries. Persecution under the repressive Ottoman Turkish regime led to his music being suppressed, but these piano works are a sophisticated testament to Chukhajian’s Romantic inclinations, absorbing the influences of Chopin and Liszt, and enriching them with Oriental nuances and descriptive themes.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Barkhudarian: 4 Oriental Dances, 12 Armenian Dances & Piano Pieces (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:13:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Armenian and Georgian composer Sarkis Vasil’evich Barkhudarian is famed for his piano miniatures. Some are among the first piano works to use Armenian folk themes as the basis for a series of original compositions. His colourful and unusual harmonies, created by the sinuous, interweaving modes of Armenian music, are immediately attractive and his miniatures, whether full of grace or pungent dance rhythms, bear out Glazunov’s admiration of his ‘sincerity, elegance and harmony of form’.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Ekmalian: Piano Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Makar Grigori Ekmalian, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, played a significant role in the development of Armenian music in the 19th and 20th centuries, expanding its genre boundaries and contributing to the formation of a new national musical language. The folk-song arrangements represent Ekmalian’s skill in blending Armenian lyrical expressiveness with European stylistic colours. His magnum opus, the Patarag (Divine Liturgy) was canonised in 1895, and is still in use by the Armenian Church today. This album of world première recordings by the acclaimed Armenian pianist Mikael Ayrapetyan are performed from the composer’s unpublished manuscripts.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan, Vladimir Sergeev – Komitas Vardapet: Piano and Chamber Music (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:08 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.
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Mikael Ayrapetyan – Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:28 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Armenian pianist and composer Stephan Elmas was a child prodigy who met Franz Liszt and became closely acquainted with Rubinstein and Massenet. Elmas’s life was darkened by illness and the tragedy of his homeland, but his music reflects the ease and facility of his technique, harking back to the Romanticism of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann, rather than the challenging times in which he lived, and with a quality of craftsmanship that gives his music a magnetic attractiveness.
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