69.00 PLN

CD:

Nr kat.: DE3328
Label  : DELOS (USA)

?I would like to see any power in the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people whose wars have been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. See if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a new Armenia.? William Saroyan Listen to the music of Aram Khachaturian, the dances from the Masquerade Suite (DE 3288; DV 7005), or any of the wonderful dances from the ballets Spartacus (including the Adagio on DE 3288) or Gayaneh (DE 3288) after reading the Saroyan quote. To conductor Constantine Orbelian, it expresses very well the way his father lived. Through the years, the Orbelian household in San Francisco welcomed countless fellow Armenian and Russian survivors from all walks of life and all social strata. Recorded as a celebration of the Khachaturian Centennial, this splendid program salutes a significant composer of the 20th Century, known for the melodic beauty and rhythmic intensity of his music. Khachaturian?s roots in both Armenian and Russian music make for a sound world uniquely his own. No more authoritative interpreter for this music could be found than Constantine Orbelian. Born in San Francisco, of Armenian-Russian parentage, he has this music in his blood. During his earlier career as a concert pianist, his recording of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto won ?Best Concerto Recording of the Year? in the United Kingdom. As a young musician studying in Russia he became acquainted with the composer; and Khachaturian subsequently visited the Orbelian family in San Francisco.