Release Date: 13 October 2017
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948125562
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Release Date: 13 October 2017
Label: Ecm Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948125562
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Description
Complete in itself, this solo album by Armenian pianist 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.
Tracklisting
John Surman
Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano
Sebastian Rochford
Elina Duni, Rob Luft, Fred Thomas & Matthieu Michel
Keith Jarrett
Mette Henriette
Keith Jarrett
Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy
Marco Fumo
Michel Kiener
Johanna Carter
Laurens de Man
Lestari Scholtes
Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim
Various artists
Pina Napolitano, Franco Mezzena