Isabel Bayrakdarian - Gomidas Songs
List Price:
Our Price: $8.64
You Save: $8.34 (49%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.43 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: Isabel BayrakdarianPerformer: Isabel Bayrakdarian
Performer: Karen Kocharyan
Performer: Vyacheslav Manucharyan
Composer: Gomidas Vartabed
Conductor: Eduard Topchjan
Performer: Karen Khachaturian
Orchestra: Armenian State Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Serouj Kradjian
Performer: Gevorg Gharabekyan
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-23
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Oror (Lullaby), for voice & piano
- Gakavi Yerke (Song of the Partridge), song
- Manoogneroo Hayr mer (Children's Prayer), song
- Work(s): Verginkn ambel e (The Cloudy Sky) / Antsrevn yegav (It' Raining)
- Dzirani Dzar (Apricot Tree), song
- Karoun (Spring), for voice & piano
- Work(s): Alakyaz (Mount Alakyaz) / Khngi dzar (Incense Tree)
- Unabi (Dance of Unabi), song
- Shooshigi (Dance of Shooshig), song
- Keler tsoler (Striding, Beaming), song
- Work(s): Hoy Nazan (Oh Nazan) / Shakhgr shookhgr (Jingle-Jangle)
- Akh Maral jan (Ah, Dear Maral), song
- Kele kele (Strolling), song
- Chinar es (Tall as the Poplar Tree), song
- Chem grna khagha (I Cannot Dance), song
- Work(s): Ervoom em (I'm Burning With Love) / Shogher jan (Dear Shogher)
- Voh inch kaghtsr pan (Oh, What a Delight!), song
- Groung (The Crane), for voice & piano
- Andooni (Without a Home), song
- Tsayn door ov dzovag (Call to the Sea), song
Music reviews of Gomidas Songs
Music Review: Utterly spellbinding!
Rating: 5 Stars
This recording is a delight from start to finish--Isabel Bayrakdarian's heart and soul are linked to every moment of this music, and the result is a haunting collection of songs in a variety of moods. The arrangements and piano solos by Isabel's husband Serouj Kradjian are masterful. I recently attended a live concert in which these artists performed about half of the material on the cd--it was a magical evening!
More Gomidas Songs free music reviews:
1
1
Description of Gomidas Songs
Although the pieces performed here by the internationally acclaimed, Canadian-based soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian are sung entirely in Armenian, these songs cast a powerful spell long before their literal meaning has been gleaned. Bayrakdarian - born in Lebanon, the daughter of Armenian parents - explores the extraordinary legacy of Gomidas Vardabet, a well-travelled, turn-of-the-nineteenth-century composer who made it his life's work to seek out, transcribe and re-interpret the ancient liturgy, songs, lullabies, hymns and folk dances of his homeland. His work would have been remarkable under any circumstances, but it has become all the more significant in light of the Armenian genocide of 1915, which left him emotionally devastated and put an end to his life as a composer. Bayrakdarian performed Gomidas's music as part of the score to Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's 2002 Ararat, a multi-layered drama about contemporary filmmakers attempting to dramatize and come to terms with the events of 1915. However, mainstream moviegoers will more readily recognize her voice from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Composer Howard Shore invited Bayrakdarian to sing on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack after hearing one of her recordings. She's even more renowned among opera fans the world over, especially for her performances, on stage and on record, as Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare and in such Mozart works as Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. Her voice, says Time, 'Combines lyricism with remarkable dramatic instincts.' Bayrakdarian made her Metropolitan Opera debut in William Bolcom's A View from the Bridge. Gomidas Songs contains love songs, devotional songs, evocations of nature, children's songs, and lamentations, and comic songs. It was recorded at the Aram Khachaturian Philharmonic Hall in Yerevan, Armenia with the Chamber Players of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. All the songs were arranged and orchestrated by scholar and pianist Serouj Kradjian, her concert partner and husband. Egoyan contributes eloquent liner notes to the album package, illustrating the importance of Bayrakdarian's undertaking to music lovers everywhere: 'The strength of any culture resides in its ability to preserve, cherish, reinvent and grow. This was the gift that Gomidas gave to his people, and this is the gift which Isabel has revealed and brought to the world.'Classical CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Classical CDs
Winterscapesby London Philharmonic
Prophetic Voice; Published: 2000-07; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops:
The Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebeeby Dini Petty
Children's Group; Published: 2001-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $13.38
Price in other shops:
Classical Kids - Beethoven Lives Upstairs CdrRelease date: 2000-04-05; Music CD
Best price: $24.98
Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))by Malcolm Sinclair, Jeremy Siepmann
Naxos; Published: 2003-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $35.99
![Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS] Image](/images/Jose-Carreras-Jubileum-Concert-VHS-1584481471-X.jpg){kind=small}
Jose Carreras - Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS]Sling Shot; Release date: 2000-04-18; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops:
![Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS] Image](/images/Tchaikovsky-The-Nutcracker-Nureyev-Park-Royal-Ballet-VHS-156127092X-X.jpg){kind=small}
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-09-09; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.89
Price in other shops:
![Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS] Image](/images/Lonely-Town-Lonley-Street-Sergeant-Early-Dream-VHS-1561270857-X.jpg){kind=small}
Rambert Dance Company - Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-10-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops:
Winter Music: Composing the Northby John Luther Adams
Wesleyan; Published: 2004-11-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.91
Price in other shops:
![Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Puccini-La-Fanciulla-del-West-Santi-Domingo-Neblett-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720382-X.jpg){kind=small}
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops:
![Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Image](/images/Verdi-Falstaff-Giulini-Bruson-Ricciarelli-Nucci-Royal-Opera-Covent-Garden-VHS-0769720358-X.jpg){kind=small}
Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Pauline Viardot-Garcia (Lieder, Chancon, Canzoni, Mazurkas)Release date: 2007-04-03; Music CD
Best price: $11.42
Price in other shops:
Richard Hagopian - Best of Armenian Folk MusicRelease date: 1994-02-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.55
Price in other shops:
AraratBuena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2003-07-22; DVD
Best price: $7.93
Price in other shops:
Haissmavourk Choir - The Music of Armenia, Volume 1: Sacred Choral MusicRelease date: 1995-10-03; Music CD
Best price: $9.21
Price in other shops:
Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ CleopatraRelease date: 2004-10-19; Music CD
Best price: $13.70
Price in other shops:
Isabel Bayrakdarian, James Parker - Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ AzulãoBAYRAKDARIAN,ISABEL; Release date: 2003-10-21; Music CD
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
A Long Journey Home - Isabel Bayrakdarian (DVD)Published: 2005; DVD
Best price: $29.99
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Zuill Bailey - The Spanish MastersRelease date: 2011-11-08; Music CD
Best price: $9.05
Price in other shops:
Fabian Carbone - Tango NotturnoTango; Release date: 2008-03-25; Music CD
Best price: $11.38
Price in other shops:
Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Joyous LightRelease date: 2002-04-16; Music CD
Best price: $13.98
Price in other shops: