Aram & Karen Khachaturian: Music for Violin and Piano

Kosemyan, Ruben;
Mnatsakanyan, Natalya

95357

A unique coupling on record of vibrant and impassioned chamber music by the uncle-and-nephew Armenian composers. This delightful disc reminds us of the vital role played by the folk tradition in Armenian classical music, as well as the unrivalled success of both Khachaturians in assimilating that tradition within the Western-European classical idiom. Jascha Heifetz’s transcriptions of two numbers from the ballet Gayaneh were once ubiquitous, and David Oistrakh was the first champion of both Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto, and Karen Khachaturian’s Violin Sonata. The Armenian-born Ruben Kosemyan follows in these distinguished footsteps with an urgent, lyrical strain of expression that has won him much acclaim both in Europe and in Canada where he now resides. In 2007 he was awarded a UNESCO gold medal by the Composers Union of Armenia on the occasion of the centenary of Aram Khachaturian’s birth, and in 2009 he became leader of the Khachaturian State Quartet.

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Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

5028421953571