Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble, Levon Eskenian Title: Komitas Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: ECM Release Date: 10/2/2015 Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop Style: Contemporary Folk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 602547322463 |
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The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble — Levon Eskenian — Emmanuel Hovhannisyan: duduk; Avag Margaryan: blul; Armen Ayvazyan: kamancha; Aram Nikoghosyan: oud; Meri Vardanyan: kanon; Vladimir Papikyan: santur; Davit Avagyan:... more » |
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The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble
Levon Eskenian
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan: duduk; Avag Margaryan: blul; Armen Ayvazyan: kamancha; Aram Nikoghosyan: oud; Meri Vardanyan: kanon; Vladimir Papikyan: santur; Davit Avagyan: tar, saz; Mesrop Khalatyan: dap; Norayr Gapoyan: duduk
Eduard Harutyunyan: percussion
Artistic Director: Levon Eskenian
The Armenian Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to play ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. Their debut album on ECM, Music of G.I. Gurdjieff, was widely acclaimed, and won an Edison Award as Album of the Year in 2012. Now Eskenian and his musicians turn their attention to the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). Composer, ethnomusicologist, arranger, singer and priest, Komitas is popularly held to be the founder of contemporary music in Armenia, and in his work as a collector he explored the connections that uniquely bind together Armenian sacred and secular music. With their special focus on folk instrumentation and inspired arrangements the Ensemble illuminates the deep roots of Komitass compositions in this program recorded in Lugano in February 2015.
Levon Eskenian
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan: duduk; Avag Margaryan: blul; Armen Ayvazyan: kamancha; Aram Nikoghosyan: oud; Meri Vardanyan: kanon; Vladimir Papikyan: santur; Davit Avagyan: tar, saz; Mesrop Khalatyan: dap; Norayr Gapoyan: duduk
Eduard Harutyunyan: percussion
Artistic Director: Levon Eskenian
The Armenian Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to play ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. Their debut album on ECM, Music of G.I. Gurdjieff, was widely acclaimed, and won an Edison Award as Album of the Year in 2012. Now Eskenian and his musicians turn their attention to the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). Composer, ethnomusicologist, arranger, singer and priest, Komitas is popularly held to be the founder of contemporary music in Armenia, and in his work as a collector he explored the connections that uniquely bind together Armenian sacred and secular music. With their special focus on folk instrumentation and inspired arrangements the Ensemble illuminates the deep roots of Komitass compositions in this program recorded in Lugano in February 2015.