Lusine Grigoryan - Komitas: Seven Songs (2017)

Complete in itself, this solo piano album by Lusine Grigoryan, can also be considered a companion volume to the Gurdjieff Ensemble’s critically-acclaimed album of Komitas’s music. It was recorded at the same 2015 session in Lugano, directed by Manfred Eicher, and has some overlapping of repertoire. Where Levon Eskenian’s versions with the Gurdjieff Ensemble explored some of the composer’s sonic inspirations with folk instruments, Lusine Grigoryan conveys some of the same colours with her wide palette of piano articulation and her exploration of timbral possibilities: in her playing one can catch the flavour of the duduk, the tar, the zurna et cetera, as Komitas intended. As Levon Eskenian has noted, Grigoryan “conveys the mysterious presence typical of rustic and ritual music.” Pieces heard on this recording, the ECM debut of Lusine Grigoryan, include Komitas’s Seven Songs, Seven Dances, Pieces for Children, and Msho Shoror.

Tracklist:
1. Seven Songs : 1. Semplice
2. Seven Songs : 2. Dolente
3. Seven Songs : 3. Allegro non troppo
4. Seven Songs : 4. Allegretto semplice, non troppo
5. Seven Songs : 5. Comodo
6. Seven Songs : 6. Nobile
7. Seven Songs : 7. Allegrezza energico
8. Msho Shoror
9. Seven Dances : 1. Manushaki
10. Seven Dances : 2. Yerangi
11. Seven Dances : 3. Unabi
12. 4. Marali
13. Seven Dances : 5. Shushiki
14. Seven Dances : 6. Het u Araj
15. Seven Dances : 7. Shoror
16. Pieces For Children : 1. Allegretto amabile
17. Pieces For Children : 2. Allegretto amabile
18. Pieces For Children : 3. Vivo
19. Pieces For Children : 4. Allegro Moderato
20. Pieces For Children : 5. Andantino
21. Pieces For Children : 6. Lento
22. Pieces For Children : 7. Vivace
23. Pieces For Children : 8. Moderato con giubilo
24. Pieces For Children : 9. Con Alterazza
25. Pieces For Children : 10. Calmo
26. Pieces For Children : 11. Moderato
27. Pieces For Children : 12. Andantino con tenerezza
28. Toghik