Hrachya Avanesyan - Violin Concerto & Romance & Four Romantic Pieces - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 , the third solo album from the British singer/songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band Supergrass. Three years on from his last solo record Matador, World's Strongest Man was inspired by Grayson Perry's Descent of Man, Frank Ocean's Blonde, Californian weed, British woodlands, unchecked masculinity, Neu! And hip hop. A remarkable collection of 11 deeply personal songs each set to expansive, addictive melodies. From the deep soul purge of the title track to the coruscating Fripp-goes-motorik sprint of InchDeep PocketsInch via the gorgeous cyclonic ballad InchSlow Motion LifeInch and the raw-as-hell stream of consciousness panic attack of InchVanishing ActInch, World's Strongest Man is a bold, ambitious, free-thinking, future-facing rock 'n' roll record. Album Tracks 1. World's Strongest Man 3 29 2. Deep Pockets 3 50 3. Walk the Walk 3 56 4. S**t (I've Done It Again) 2 58 5. Slow Motion Life 4 28 6. Wounded Egos 4 08 7. Oxygen Mask 4 10 8. In Waves 2 54 9. The Oaks 4 39 10. Vanishing Act 2 50 11. Weird Dreams 4 56

In this album, Sergey Khachatryan presents the first recording of Ysaye's 6 Solo Sonatas Op.27 on the composer's Guarneri del Gesù violin - a magnificent, hypnotic instrument! Ysaye's Op. 27 is not new to Sergey Khachatryan, who has been giving the cycle in concert for a long time. Today aged thirty- eight, and the precocious First Prize Winner of the International Sibelius Competition in 2000 and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2005, the Armenian violinist here once more demonstrates his radiant maturity, along the same lines as he did in his sumptuous recording, so personal, of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas (naive, 2008-2009, V 5181). Here Sergey Khachatryan delivers an interpretation of heightened feelings, where what might otherwise come across as impish is deliberately turned into something fierce (the Prelude of Sonata No. 2, which uses the opening motif of Bach's Partita No. 3), or that which is merely imitative becomes wild and relentless (the Finale of Sonata No. 4). He wilfully emphasises the popular inspiration underlying the complete collection, here replete with shadings and a sumptuousness previously unheard. Album Tracks 5. 6 sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27~Sonata No. 2 in A minor - I. Obsession. Prélude. Poco vivace - Meno mosso - Tempo vivo 11. 6 sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27~Sonata No. 4 in E minor - II. Sarabande. Quasi lento 15. 6 sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27~Sonata No. 6 in E major - Allegro giusto non troppo vivo - Poco lento - Più vivo - Allegretto poco scherzando - Allegro tempo primo

Album Tracks 1. Violin Concerto First Movement and Cadenza 2. Violin Concerto Second Movement 3. Four Movements for Violin & Harpsichord 1. Exercise 4. Four Movements for Violin & Harpsichord 2. Lament 5. Four Movements for Violin & Harpsichord 3. Dialogue 6. Four Movements for Violin & Harpsichord 4. Folly 7. Anagram (Fantasia No. 2) for Solo Violin & String Orchestra