Eva Zaïcik, David Haroutunian, Xénia Maliarevitch – Mayrig: To Armenian Mothers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:20 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1906, Komitas gave a concert and lecture in Paris. Debussy came on stage after the concert and knelt before the Armenian composer (who was also a priest, a singer and a pioneer of ethnomusicology), exclaiming: ‘I bow before your genius, Reverend Father.’
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David Haroutunian, Mikayel Hakhnazaryan, Sofya Malikyan – Brahms: Piano Trios 2 & 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:27 minutes | 816 MB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms keenly sensed the shadow of Beethoven saying “You do not know what it is like, hearing his footsteps constantly behind one”. It was this towering presence that spurred the young Brahms to master his craft and establish his voice. The First Piano Trio in its original form (1854) quoted from Beethoven, but the revised version has no trace of the quote. This work was revised at the end of the composer’s career. The 2nd and 3rd Piano Trios show that Brahms had already achieved complete maturity and his unique voice was established before the revision of the earlier Trio. No. 2 dates from 1880 and No. 3 from 1886.
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