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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

1. Semplice
Track length1:26
2. Dolente
Track length1:25
3. Allegro non troppo
Track length1:22
4. Allegretto semplice, non troppo
Track length0:58
5. Comodo
Track length1:34
6. Nobile
Track length1:21
7. Allegrezza energico
Track length0:35
1. Manushaki
Track length2:54
2. Yerangi
Track length3:29
3. Unabi
Track length1:52
5. Shushiki
Track length1:41
6. Het u Araj
Track length3:00
7. Shoror
Track length4:45
1. Allegretto amabile
Track length0:25
2. Allegretto amabile
Track length0:30
3. Vivo
Track length0:26
4. Allegro Moderato
Track length0:54
5. Andantino
Track length1:08
6. Lento
Track length1:08
7. Vivace
Track length0:43
8. Moderato con giubilo
Track length1:19
9. Con Alterazza
Track length0:37
10. Calmo
Track length0:39
11. Moderato
Track length1:02
12. Andantino con tenerezza
Track length1:34

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.
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