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Choral Music – Profeti della Quinta, Glorea Die Cantores, The Sixteen, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tigran Mansurian

by C. Michael Bailey
May 7, 2017

Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem The Carlo G Manuscript: Virtuoso liturgical music from the early 17th century Glossa Records 2016 One gets to the point where only the most obscure music is satisfying. Enter The Carlo G Manuscript. The only thing this story lacks is murder and a donkey. About 15 years ago, a portfolio now known as the “Carlo G Manuscript" was purchased at a Vienna yard sale for the equivalent of $65. This ...

Album Review

Tigran Mansurian: Quasi Parlando

Read "Quasi Parlando" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 21, 2014

Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian's poignant and introspective Quasi Parlando on ECM consists of four string concertos. Two penned almost three decades apart and two others that he wrote specifically for each of the soloists on the album; violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Anja Lechner. The unifying theme of this splendid disc, and one that recurs throughout most of Mansurian's opus, is a sublime, almost effortless, narrative sense endowed with a timeless mysticism. The music is laced with both ...

Album Review

Tigran Mansurian: Ars Poetica

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 4, 2007

La musica di Tigran Mansurian, documentata fedelmente da ECM, colpisce per la sua capacità di evocare archetipi atemporali, che paiono scolpiti nella scabra roccia della gola di Kasagh, dalla quale il monastero medioevale di Saghmosavank - in cui è stata effettuata questa registrazione - si affaccia su valli ampie e silenziose. Ars Poetica è un omaggio appassionatamente reso al conterraneo Yeghishe Charents, uno dei maggiori poeti armeni del Novecento, brutalmente messo a tacere dal regime comunista negli anni ’30. In ...