Spendiarov: Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano Mikael Ayrapetyan, Yulia Ayrapetyan, Vladimir Sergeev, Demian Fokin

• Alexander Spendiarov (1871 - 1928): Yerevan Études, Op. 30 (Version for Piano):
• 1 Spendiarov: Yerevan Études, Op. 30 (Version for Piano): No. 1, Heydari 07:26
• 2 Spendiarov: Yerevan Études, Op. 30 (Version for Piano): No. 2, Gidzhas 03:40
• Crimean Sketches, Op. 9 (Version for Piano):
• 3 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9 (Version for Piano): No. 1, Air de danse 02:10
• 4 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9 (Version for Piano): No. 2, Chanson élégiaque 02:10
• 5 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9 (Version for Piano): No. 3, Chanson à boire 01:45
• 6 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9 (Version for Piano): No. 4, Air de danse "Khaytarma" 04:18
• Alexander Spendiarov:
• 7 Spendiarov: Waltz in B-Flat Major 03:38
• 8 Spendiarov: Waltz in E-Flat Major 05:16
• 9 Spendiarov: Scherzo in D Major 02:48
• 10 Spendiarov: Menuet & Trio, Op. 3 No. 1 (Version for Piano) 05:08
• 11 Spendiarov: Barcarolle in G Minor 02:46
• 12 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9: No. 4, Air de danse "Khaytarma" (Version for Piano with Introduction) 03:37
• 13 Spendiarov: Berceuse, Op. 3 No. 2 (Version for Piano) 03:14
• 14 Spendiarov: Menuette in D Minor 03:40
• 15 Spendiarov: Brave Warriors, Op. 26 06:23
• Folk Song, Dance and Khaytarma:
• 16 Spendiarov: Folk Song, Dance and Khaytarma: No. 1, Folk Song 02:58
• 17 Spendiarov: Folk Song, Dance and Khaytarma: No. 2, Dance - No. 3, Khaytarma 02:01
• Alexander Spendiarov:
• 18 Spendiarov: Waltz in E Minor for Violin & Piano 03:12
• 19 Spendiarov: Folk Song for Violin & Piano 02:22
• 20 Spendiarov: Romance for Violin & Piano 03:17
• 21 Spendiarov: Lullaby for Violin & Piano 03:11
• 22 Spendiarov: Melody for Violin & Piano 03:21
• 23 Spendiarov: Canzonetta in D Major for Violin & Piano 02:07
• 24 Spendiarov: Crimean Sketches, Op. 9: No. 4, Air de danse "Khaytarma" (Arr. for Violin & Piano) 04:16
• 25 Spendiarov: Romance in F Major for Cello & Piano 03:29
• 26 Spendiarov: Romance in G Minor for Cello & Piano 03:30
• 27 Spendiarov: Barcarolle in G Major for Cello & Piano 02:06
• 28 Spendiarov: Barcarolle in G Minor for Cello & Piano 02:34
• 29 Spendiarov: To the Rose, Op. 1 No. 3 (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 02:33
• 30 Spendiarov: Eastern Lullaby, Op. 5 No. 2 (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 02:51
• 31 Spendiarov: Do Not Weep, O Nightingale, Op. 22 No. 2 (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 03:19
• 32 Spendiarov: Lullaby, Op. 25 No. 1 (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 05:02
• 33 Spendiarov: Garib blbul (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 02:52
• 34 Spendiarov: To the Beloved (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 03:48
• 35 Spendiarov: La souris, Op. 23 No. 5 (Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano) 02:48
• Almast (Excerpts Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano):
• 36 Spendiarov: Almast (Excerpts Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano): Dance of Maidens 02:22
• 37 Spendiarov: Almast (Excerpts Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano): Dance of Men 03:48
• 38 Spendiarov: Almast (Excerpts Arr. V. Sarkisyan for Piano): Persian March 04:53
• Total Runtime 02:10:39

Info for Spendiarov: Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano

Alexander Spendiarov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique. Spendiarovs music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence and he vitally enriched the expressive range of Armenian music as a composer, pedagogue and champion of his contemporaries. His piano works, both for solo instrument and for chamber forces, show the range of his gifts, not least his romances and lullabies, and range across his entire compositional life. Spendiarovs songs, heard here in piano transcriptions by Villy Sargsyan, perfectly preserve the unique timbres and textures of these works. MIKAEL AYRAPETYAN is a pianist, composer and producer. He is also the founder and artistic director of the music project Secrets of Armenia, which aims to increase international awareness of Armenian classical music, and actively organizes concerts featuring Armenian music in venues around the world, for which he is producer, artistic director and pianist. Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. His recording of Eduard Bagdasarians piano and violin music [GP664] earned a five-star rating from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanians 24 Preludes [GP760] was praised as a discovery by both Classica and Piano News.

Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano
Vladimir Sergeev, violin
Demian Fokin, cello

Mikael Ayrapetyan
is a pianist, composer and producer. He is also the founder and artistic director of the music project Secrets of Armenia, which aims to increase international awareness of Armenian classical music, and actively organises concerts featuring Armenian music in venues around the world, for which he is producer, artistic director and pianist.

Born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, and continues to uphold the performing traditions of the Russian piano school, of which Konstantin Igumnov, Samuel Feinberg and Lev Oborin are luminaries.

His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works by Armenian composers. His recording of Eduard Bagdasarian’s piano and violin music [GP664] earned a five-star rating from International Piano, and his album of Haro Stepanian’s 24 Preludes [GP760] was praised as a “discovery” by both Classica and Piano News.

Vladimir Sergeev
started to learn the violin at the age of six, and when he was 17, he was awarded First Prize in a regional competition for young violinists, and in 2000 entered the Academic Music College of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a student of People’s Artist of Georgia M.L. Yashvili, with whom he also studied with at the Moscow Conservatory.

Sergeev focuses on the popularisation of Armenian classical music worldwide. Together with Mikael Ayrapetyan he has performed in the most prestigious halls in Russia, and has recorded Armenian classical repertoire. Sergeev has performed across Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Demian Fokin
Cellist Demian Fokin began studying music at the age of five under the guidance of his parents. At the age of 17 he entered the Youth State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, where he made his debut as a soloist with the orchestra conducted by Román Revueltas Retes.

Fokin leads an active creative life, having performed across Europe in such prestigious venues as the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music, the Great Hall of the Gnessin Academy, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, Théâtre Mogador in Paris and DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen.

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