Komitas: Seven Songs
Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could...
Komitas: Seven Songs
Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
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Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could...
About
Complete in itself, this solo album by Armenian pianist Lusine Grigoryan, can also be considered a companion volume to the Gurdjieff Ensemble's critically-acclaimed album of Komitas's music.
It was recorded at the same 2015 session in Lugano, directed by Manfred Eicher, and has some overlapping of repertoire. Where Levon Eskenian's versions with the Gurdjieff Ensemble explored some of the composer's sonic inspirations with folk instruments, Lusine Grigoryan conveys some of the same colours with her wide palette of piano articulation and her exploration of timbral possibilities: in her playing one can catch the flavour of the duduk, the tar, the zurna et cetera, as Komitas intended. As Levon Eskenian has noted, Grigoryan "conveys the mysterious presence typical of rustic and ritual music."
Contents and tracklist
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Lusine Grigoryan (piano)
- Recorded: 2015-02-21
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
Awards and reviews
February 2018
Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could not be further removed from village music making, but with judicious use of staccato and pedalling Lusine Grigoryan manages to suggest the original folk instruments.
January 2018
A highly appealing programme, then, which arguably benefits from its succinctness. Lusine Grigoryan renders it with an ideal poise and incisiveness, and she has been accorded spacious though never unfocused sound.