KOMITAS AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC CULTURE

September 26 | Aram Khachaturian concert hall

Festival opening 

 

HOVER STATE CHAMBER CHOIR

art. dir. – Sona Hovhannisyan

 

Komitas Vardapet

Shorora (Swing)

Loru gutanerg (Ploughing song from Lori)

Yel, yel (Get up)

 

Tigran Mansuryan

Rainbow

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos

An extract from the Brazilian suite No. 4

 

Vache Sharafyan

Ne

 

ANAHIT PAPAYAN – soprano

Hoyla, tnavir tun (Hoy-la, house destroyed) – folk song, written by Komitas

 

YEREVAN STATE CHAMBER CHOIR

art. dir. – Harutyun Topikyan

 

Komitas Vardapet

On t’ind i khind (Song of Joy)

 

Claude Debussy

Clair De Lune, arr. by Ward Swingle

 

Edgar Hovhannisyan

Tsoren em tsanel (I sowed wheat)

soloist – Makruhi Khachaturyan

 

Yervand Yerkanyan

Ave Maria, dedicated to Pope Francis

 

HASMIK TOROSYAN – soprano

Mary Magdalene – medieval tagh, written by Komitas

 

ARMENIAN STATE CHAMBER CHOIR

art. dir. – Robert Mlkeyan

Komitas Vardapet

Garun (Spring)

Hov areq (Make it cool)

 

David Haladjian

Kekondas (You limp)

 

Komitas Vardapet

Surb Astvats (On the Holy Friday)

 

IRINA ZAKYAN – soprano

Lullaby of Akn – folk song, written by Komitas

 

ARMENIAN NATIONAL ACADEMIC CHOIR

art. dir. – Hovannes Tchekidjyan

 

Komitas Vardapet

Threshing song

 

Barsegh Kanachyan

Nanor

 

September 27 |  Komitas Museum-Institute’s concert hall

“NOH” Japanese theatre

September 28 | Haghpat monastery

ARMENIAN STATE CHAMBER CHOIR
art. dir. – Robert Mlkeyan

 

Komitas “Patarag” /Liturgy/

October 1 | Komitas chamber music house

Vocal music evening 

 

MATTHIEU LÉCROART  (France)
Accomp. – ANNA KHACHATRYAN

Alma MAHLER

Laue Sommernacht (poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum)
Ich wandle unter Blumen (Heinrich Heine)

Johannes BRAHMS

O wüsst’ ich doch den Weg zurück (Klaus Groth)
Von ewiger Liebe (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)

Gustav MAHLER

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht (from « Des Knaben Wunderhorn »)

Richard STRAUSS

Breit’ über mein Haupt (Adolf Friedrich von Schack)
Cäcilie (Heinrich Hart)

Hugo WOLF

Der Gärtner (Eduard Mörike)
Der Knabe und das Immlein (Mörike)
Abschied (Mörike)

Emmanuel CHABRIER

L’île heureuse (Ephraïm Mikhaël)

Cécile ChAMINADE

Extase (Paul Robiquet)

Camille SAINT-SAËNS

La Cloche (Victor Hugo)

Gabriel FAURÉ

Tristesse (Théophile Gautier)
En sourdine (Paul Verlaine – from « Mélodies de Venise »)

Maurice RAVEL

from «Histoires naturelles» (Jules Renard)
Le Grillon
Le Cygne

Henri DUPARC

L’invitation au voyage (Charles Baudelaire)
Phidylé (Leconte de Lisle)

Claude DEBUSSY

Beau soir (Paul Bourget)
Colloque sentimental (Paul Verlaine)

KOMITAS VARDAPET

Ach maral djan (Ah, my doe)
Antuni

 

October 5  | Komitas Museum-Institute’s concert hall

Chamber music evening 

 

Piano - TAKAHIRO AKIBA (Japan)
Soprano – TATEVIK MOVSISYAN 

 

Komitas Vardapet

Seven Dances for piano

Tigran Mansuryan

Yerkir Nairi, vocal cycle for soprano and piano

Aram Khachaturian

Piano Toccata E flat minor, Op. 24

Arno Babajanyan

Four Pieces for piano, Op. 1
1. Prelude ,2. Vagharshapat dance, 3. Impromptu, 4. Capriccio

Georgy Sarajyan

Paraphrase on Sheram’s Theme

Aleksandr Harutyunyan

Three Musical Images for piano.
1. The wind blows in the mountains , 2. The evening on the Ararat Valley, 3. Dance of Sasun people

 

October 8

Armenian National Academic Choir
art. dir. – Hovannes Tchekidjyan
Komitas Museum-Institute’s concert hall

Komitas Vardapet

Govya Yerusaghem (Praise, Jerusalem)

Makar Yekmalyan

Pelpuln Avarayri (Nightingale of Avarayr)

Barsegh Kanachyan

Lullaby

Aleksandr Harutyunyan

Elegy

Gabriel Fouré

“Libera me”, from Requiem

Giuseppe Verdi

“Va Pensiero”, from Nabucco

George Gershwin

“Oh, I can’t sit down…”, from Porgy and Bess

Tigran Tchukhajian

“O, barekamner…”, from Karine

Komitas Vardapet

Ploughing song
Hovn anush (Coolness in the air)
Dzavaratsets