SACD2648 哈察都量 巴巴賈尼安:大提琴協奏曲集 喬西安 大提琴 托普施詹 指揮 Chaushian/Khachaturian..:Armenian Cello Concertos (BIS)

哈察都量 | 米歇爾.波朝森 | 阿諾.巴巴賈尼安: 亞美尼亞大提琴協奏曲集

亞歷山大.喬西安 大提琴

愛德華.托普施詹 指揮

亞美尼亞國家愛樂管弦樂團

Recorded in the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, this disc offers an opportunity to sample music by Armenian composers, here represented by three works for cello and orchestra, and is in a way a follow-up to the 2011 release [BIS-1948] which was also devoted to concertante works for cello by Armenian composers. The programme opens with Aram Khachaturian, whose 1946 concerto, which contains many Armenian and Georgian folkloric allusions and rhythmic dances like those of the Ashoug, has been described as being closer to a symphony with cello than to a concerto. The second work, Arno Babajanian's Cello Concerto, is permeated by specific intonation rooted in Armenian folk music and folklore. The disc concludes with the cello concerto by the French composer of Armenian origin, Michel Petrossian, a work from 2022 entitled 8.4, an allusion to the book of Genesis, chapter 8, verse 4, where Mount Ararat is first mentioned. The work glorifies the symbolic and spiritual aspect of Ararat, the 'sacred mountain', and integrates Armenian and Byzantine liturgical chants.

The UK-based Alexander Chaushian, cello soloist in all of these works, is Armenian by birth, and has secured the expert support of the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra under its principal conductor Eduard Topchjan.

Aram Khachaturian

Concerto in E minor for Cello and Orchestra 35''13

01 I. Allegro moderato 17''04

02 II. Andante sostenuto 8''17

03 III. Allegro a battuta 9''52

Arno Babajanian

Concerto for cello and orchestra 20''03

04 Andante sostenuto 6''37

05 Andante con amore 2''15

06 Allegro energico con fuoco 11''11

Michel Petrossian

8.4, concerto for cello and orchestra 13''10

07 1. Massis 8''43

08 2. Sis 4''27

Album total 68''30