Yulia Ayrapetyan – Secrets of Armenia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music in this collection reflects the spirit of Armenia through dances and songs that have their origins in scenes from everyday Armenian life. Korganov’s pictorial Bayati is an especially vivid representation, while Kara-Murza’s Pot-pourri sur des airs arméniens is a significant work, combining Armenian folk music with the Western piano tradition. Melikian’s Emeralds is one of his famous cycles of romances, hallmarked by a strong sense of poetic narrative and a vivid emotional expressiveness. This album of Armenian piano discoveries is played by Yulia Ayrapetyan, a specialist in the music of Armenia.
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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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Yulia Ayrapetyan – Komitas: Songs (Arr. V. Sargsyan for Piano) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:56 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Komitas was a priest, a musician and a pioneer of ethnomusicology, considered to be the founder of the Armenian national school of music. A significant part of his life was taken up with travel to remote villages, collecting thousands of traditional songs. These range from simple melodies and poetic sketches of Armenian landscapes, to dramatic lyrics expressing mournful tragedy. Komitas was enthralled by the way ‘a peasant learns this art in nature’s embrace, with nature as his infallible school.’ Heard here in world première recordings, these idiomatic arrangements by Villy Sargsyan importantly preserve the composer’s modal-intonational system.
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