Aram Khachaturian - Composer & Conductor & Pianist - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Khachaturian,Aram / Shumskaya,Yellizaveta - Kondrashin Conducts Khachaturian & Rachmaninov [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/29/2016

Romuald Twardowski's considerable achievements in the field of choral music constitute a lasting contribution to the repository of the Polish culture. The music is characterized by a great variety of forms and genres, technical mastery, and they are united by the personality of the creator faithful to the Inchunity in diversityInch principle. The Czestochowa Philharmonic Choir InchCollegium CantorumInch conducted by Janusz Siadlak gathered in their repertoire works by Twardowski created over several decades. The present album is entirely devoted to this output, very well reflecting this genre diversity but also the ensemble's remarkably enormous performance capability.

ALEXANDER AFANASYEVICH SPENDIAROV (SPENDIARIAN) was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a 'musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique'. Spendiarov's music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence - and he vitally enriched the expressive range of Armenian music as a composer, pedagogue and champion of his contemporaries. His piano works, both for solo instrument and for chamber forces, show the range of his gifts, not least his romances and lullabies, and range across his entire compositional life. Spendiarov's songs, heard here in piano transcriptions by Villy Sargsyan, perfectly preserve the unique timbres and textures of these works. MIKAEL AYRAPETYAN is a pianist, composer and producer. He is also the founder and artistic director of the music project Secrets of Armenia, which aims to increase international awareness of Armenian classical music, and actively organizes concerts featuring Armenian music in venues around the world, for which he is producer, artistic director and pianist. Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. His recording of Eduard Bagdasarian's piano and violin music [GP664] earned a five-star from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanian's 24 Preludes [GP760] was praised as a InchdiscoveryInch by both Classica and Piano News.