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Lusine Grigoryan: Komitas: Seven Songs

by Hrayr Attarian
January 7, 2018

Pioneering ethnomusicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonian) is best known for transcribing and preserving Armenian popular music in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was, however, also a singer, choirmaster and an accomplished composer in the western classical tradition. The 2017 Seven Songs on ECM label's New Music Series features expressive pianist Lusine Grigoryan interpreting 28 short and captivating Komitas compositions.Grigoryan gets to the emotive and intellectual core of these pieces with vibrant elegance and exquisite subtlety. She ...