Gems from Armenia

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Release Date: 6th Jan 2023
Catalogue No: CDR90000209
Label: Cedille
Length: 75 minutes

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Vardapet: Chinar es (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length2:50

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Aznavoorian Duo

Vardapet: Dsirani dsar (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length3:16

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Aznavoorian Duo

Vardapet: Garoun a

Work length4:04

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Marta Aznavoorian

Vardapet: Al aylughs (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length1:26

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Aznavoorian Duo

Vardapet: Krunk (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length3:55

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Khachaturian: Ivan Sings (Arr. A Hakkarainen for Cello & Piano)

Work length1:44

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Khachaturian: Garun Yerevan (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length3:08

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Aznavoorian Duo

Babadzhanian: Elegy for Cello & Piano

Work length4:19

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Marta Aznavoorian

Babadzhanian: Aria & Dance for Cello & Piano

Work length5:37

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Aznavoorian Duo

I. Aria

Track length3:53

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II. Dance

Track length1:44

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Terterian: Cello Sonata

Work length20:47

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Aznavoorian Duo

I. Andante

Track length9:22

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II. Adagio

Track length6:12

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III. Presto

Track length5:13

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Kradjian: Sari Siroun Yar (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Work length4:57

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Aznavoorian Duo

Arutiunian: Impromptu for Cello & Piano

Work length4:30

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Sharafyan: Petrified Dance

Work length5:22

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Aznavoorian Duo

Boyer, P: Mount Ararat

Work length9:31

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Aznavoorian Duo

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Cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, each a renowned soloist and chamber musician in her own right, together celebrate the sounds of their ancestral homeland on Gems from Armenia. The album marks the Chicago-raised sisters’ recording debut as the Aznavoorian Duo. Their panoramic survey of Armenian classical music opens with ancient folk songs arranged with haunting harmonies by early 20th-century Orthodox priest, composer, and musicologist Komitas Vardapet. The Armenian musical renaissance of the Soviet era finds expression in Aram Khachaturian’s glorious ode to his hometown of Yerevan; Arno Babajanian’s impassioned tribute to his mentor Kachaturian; the early Sonata for Cello and Piano by Avet Terterian, whose admirers included Dmitri Shostakovich; and the Impromptu of Alexander Arutiunian, winner of many Soviet and Armenian musical honors and awards. Contemporary voices include Serouj Kradjian, whose 'Sari Siroun Yar' is an arrangement of an Armenian troubadour love song. Vache Sharafyan’s Petrified Dance is haunted by the memory of Armenian soldiers lost in recent battles. American Peter Boyer’s Mount Ararat, commissioned for this project and receiving its world-premiere recording, evokes the snow-capped twin peaks of biblical fame central to Armenian national and religious identity.

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