DISCOGRAPHY
1. Lousine Zakarian "KROUNK".
Produced & Distributed by PARSEGHIAN RECORDS, 1997, USA.
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2. Lousine Zakarian "SOURP-SOURP".
Produced & Distributed by PARSEGHIAN RECORDS, 1999, USA.
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3. KOMITAS String Quartet.
Produced & Distributed by PARSEGHIAN RECORDS, 1999, USA;
(1st violin - Edward Tadevosyan, 2nd violin – Hakob Mekinyan,
viola – Jakov Papyan, chello - Felix Simonyan)
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4. KOMITAS "ARMENIAN HOLY MASS"
("PATARAG"). Manifactured & Distributed
by Movses Panossian, Hollywood Music Center, 1999, USA; (Male
Chamber Choir of the Yerevan Opera Theatre).
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5. KOMITAS "ARMENIAN MUSIC FOR
PIANO". MEG Recordings, 1995, USA; (Zemphira Barseghian
- piano).
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6. KOMITAS - "SECULAR AND SACRED
MUSIC" (CD 1 - Camerata Singers, conducted by
Alan Hovhannes, Tenor-solo – Vahan Khanzadyan). "SONGS
AND PIANO DANCES" (CD 2 - Maro Ajemian (piano), Lucine
Amara (soprano), Sahan Arzruni (piano), Ara Berberian (bass),
Cathy Berberian (mezzo), Lili Chookasian (contralto), Michael
Kermoyan (baritone), Vahan Khanzadian (tenor). Diocesan Records,
USA.
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7. THE VOICE OF KOMITAS VARDAPET
- "The music of Komitas performed by the composer himself
with A.Shahmuradian and V.Der-Arakelian". (Recorded in
Paris, 1912). Traditional Crossroards, 1995, USA. Produced by
RubenTonikian for Octa Records, Yerevan, Armenia. Printed in
Canada.
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8. KOMITAS – "DIVINE LITURGY".
MEG Recordings, 1989; New Albion Records, 1990.
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THE ART OF ANAHIT TSITSIKIAN (violin). Produced by
"Anahit" cultural Foundation, 2003, Yerevan, Armenia.
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10. TATYANA CHAKHMAKHCHYAN (piano) - "Armenian
Classical Masterpieces". Recorded at "Tutto Media"
studios in Santa Monica CA, 2003, US.
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11. KOMITAS – ASLAMAZIAN.
MEG Recordings, 1997, USA. (Chilingirian Quartet).
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12. ZARE SAAKYANTS - STATE CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA OF ARMENIA. Archive’s Audio materials, 2003.
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LE QUATUOR KOMITAS. Tune-up, Distribution DOM. (1st
violin - Edward Tadevosyan, 2nd violin – Souren Hakhnazaryan,
viola – Alexander Kosemyan, chello - Felix Simonyan).
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14. KOMITAS - CHORALES (Volume
1). Haroutune Topikyan, 2000. (Yerevan Chamber Choir, conductor
H.Topikyan).
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15. KOMITAS - CHORALES (Volume
2). Haroutune Topikyan, 2000. (Yerevan Chamber Choir, conductor
H.Topikyan).
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16. KOMITAS - CHORALES (Volume
3). Haroutune Topikyan, 2000. (Yerevan Chamber Choir, conductor
H.Topikyan).
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17. KOMITAS - CHORALES (Volume
4). Haroutune Topikyan, 2000. (Yerevan Chamber Choir, conductor
H.Topikyan).
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18. KOMITAS - SACRED CHORALES.
Haroutune Topikyan, 1999, 2001. (Yerevan Chamber Choir, conductor
H.Topikyan).
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19. KOMITAS - TEN REVELATIONS.
Produced by N.A.I., 2002, Armenia (Vahan Artsruni).
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20. KOMITAS - ARMENIAN SONGS AND DANCES (Armand Arapian, baritone,
Vincent Leterme, piano), 1996. Distributed by DINEMEC in Switzerland: DC CD 08.
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State Academic
Choir of Armenia
The Armenian State Academic Choir was
organized in 1936. Its creation and world recognition
is tied in with a national artist of the USSR, USSR and
Armenian State prize winner, professor Hovhannes Tchekidjian,
who has been the artistic director and conductor of the
choir since 1961. The choir has a long list of performances:
it includes works by Armenian, Russian, and Western European
composers. These are performed in the original in 27 languages
of the world. The Academic Choir of Armenia always performs
the Armenian songs with high professionalism: the Armenian
choral works always true to the faultless principles of
Komitas. His artistic activity contributes to the enrichment
of the national composer heritage. Armenian contemporary
composers often devote themselves to the worthy group
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The latter give concerts in different
countries of the world and cooperates with outstanding
soloists and first-class choirs. Dmitriy Shostakovich,
Aram Khachaturian, Evgeniy Mravinski and other musicians
have all talked about the Armenian State Academic Choir
with admiration. Throughout its activity the choir has
received state and international awards, honorable callings,
recorded numerous disks. |
Yerevan Chamber
Choir
The Yerevan Chamber
Choir is one of the active promoters of Komitas art. Its
artistic director and conductor Harutyun Topikyan began
his life work with the Hoktemberyan City Council Choir…
In 1979 he was one of the organizers and the artistic
director of the TV and radio choir, which afterwards gained
the state level and was called the "Armenian Song
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In 1991-1994 he left for Beirut. After 17 years of silence
he restored the "Gusan" choir created by Barsegh
Kanachian. So they came back again, with firm determination,
to become the first performer of all the secular heritage
of Komitas’s, to record and treat the future generations
to the dutifully true Komitas." It seems as if Komitas
is everywhere: a conservatory, a quartet, a park, and
a street carry his name, but… in reality Komitas
is absent in us, alas… Up to this day only 1/5 of
his entire heritage has been performed, that is to say,
out of 130 secular choral songs 22 have been recorded.
The longing of many years has been to return the estranged
Komitas to his people", - says H.Topikyan.
"In March, 1996, I presented my Komitas program to
the Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin I. The most holy
believed… And promised to finance with a condition:
only if the presented program gets implemented in one
year.
After 20 trials, a small concert… 4 months later
we finished working on our first recording. Our second
concert dispelled all of those doubts, that it is impossible
to listen to only two parts of Komitas.
With the support of the RA’s ministry of culture,
our Komitas performance recordings were sent to Italy,
and we got an invitation. For the 1700th anniversary of
the adoption of Christianity in Armenia, the Catholicos
and the Armenian churches together conducted the mass
in St. Apolinar Catholic Church. The Catholics conducted
the ceremony, and our choir sang. And in the wonderful
temple of St.Vitale in Raven we performed parts from Komitas’s
"Patarag".
Germany’s famous Poligram production released the
first CD with our choir’s performances of Komitas.
… Komitas will save our people from spiritual degradation.
The great musician will help those who need it to remain
MEN. Komitas is something like faith: as the high art,
he must dissolve in the blood of his people drop by drop.
He has become estranged and is too far away. All this
must be done by his dedicated apostles". |