Author: Levon Eskenian & The Gurdjief Folk Instruments Ensemble

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 02-10-2015

Details: The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments EnsembleLevon EskenianEmmanuel Hovhannisyan: duduk; Avag Margaryan: blul; Armen Ayvazyan: kamancha; Aram Nikoghosyan: oud; Meri Vardanyan: kanon; Vladimir Papikyan: saint; Davit Avagyan: tar, saz; Mesrop Khalatyan: dap; Norayr Gapoyan: dudukEduard Harutyunyan: percussion Artistic Director: Levon EskenianThe Armenian Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to play ethnographically authentic arrangements of the GI Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. Their debut album on ECM, Music of GI Gurdjieff, was widely acclaimed, and won an Edison Award as Album of the Year in 2012. Now Eskenian and his musicians turn their attention to the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). Composer, ethnomusicologist, arranger, singer and priest, Komitas is popularly held to be the founder of contemporary music in Armenia, and in his work as a collector he explored the connections that uniquely bind together Armenian sacred and secular music. With their special focus on folk instrumentation and inspired arrangements the Ensemble illuminates the deep roots of Komitass compositions in this program recorded in Lugano in February 2015.

UPC: 602547322463

EAN: 0602547322463

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood