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Armenian Spirit

Posted By: Bibixy
Armenian Spirit

Armenian Spirit
Alia Vox | 2012 | RAR 123 Mb
MP3 192 Kbps | Lame encoded | Tracks | Covers

“Haunting and tragic, this CD is a double-lament — for Jordi Savall’s late wife, the singer Montserrat Figueras, who loved Armenian music, and for Armenia, with its long history of foreign subjugation and massacre…It is hypnotic and exquisitely melancholic.”
–The Times, 25th August 2012

This is a beguiling, mesmeric sequence of instrumental music from Armenia, in which Hesperion XXI are joined by a group of that country's finest musicians. Georgi Minassyan and Haig Sarikouyoumdjian play the duduk, the double-reed woodwind instrument of the region. Its beautiful, musky sound seductively reflects the predominantly nostalgic, lamenting, soulful mood of the pieces heard here. Gaguik Mouradian contributes on the kamancha, a bowed string instrument. Savall arranges both anonymous material and music by named composers from the 14th to the 20th centuries, rightly allowing the Armenian musicians, and particularly the duduk, pride of place.
–Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times 2 September 2012

The playing is often of considerable subtlety and refinement … For instance, track 5, where Savall and colleagues play Chouhajian's song O’h intsh anush, offers one of the most affecting versions I have ever heard of this song … This disc is a most welcome addition to the catalogue … it has given unfailing pleasure to the present listener … more refreshing and illuminating than many Armenian recordings.
–Haig Utidjian, Early Music Review October 2012

contents:

1 - Menk kadj tohmi (duduk, vielle t., kamantcha, vielle b..)
2 - Akna krunk (2 duduk)
3 - Kani vur djan im(rebec, duduk, vielle & percussion)
4 - Chant et Danse (2 duduk & percussion)
5 - O’h intsh anush (vielle t., duduk, vielle b.& perc.)
6 - Matshkal (2 duduk)
7 - Dun en glkhen (kamantcha)
8 - Garun a (vielle t., duduk, vielle b.& perc.)
9 - Chants demariage (2 duduk, kamantcha & perc.)
10 - Al aylukhs (duduk, kamantcha, vielle t., vielle b.& perc.)
11 - Plainte: en sarer (2 duduk)
12 - Azat astvatsn & Ter kedzo (vielle & percussion)
13 - Sirt imsasani (2 duduk)
14 - Hayastan yerkir (viola, duduk & orgue)
15 - Hey djan (2 duduk)
16 - Hov arek (duduk, vielle t., vielle b., perc.)
17 - Lamento: sevmut amper (2 duduk)
18 - Alagyeaz & Khnki tsar (vielle, duduk, orgue & perc.)

Georgi Minassyan, Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian,
Gaguik Mouradian & Armen Badalyan
Hespèrion XXI

dir. Jordi Savall