Concert – Voyage of Vibrant Verses – Tirana (Albania)

Voyage of Vibrant Verses, A European Soundscape Komitas / Aslamazyan, Miniatures Rustic, naive, and ritualistic melodies, ballads, or epic songs… Komitas (1869-1935), an ethnomusicologist, traveled extensively throughout the Caucasus in search of folk melodies, collecting nearly three thousand of them. Sergey Aslamazyan, a Moscow cellist and founder of the Komitas Quartet, arranged fourteen of these […]

Concert – Musique class’ittre – Ittre (Belgium)

Komitas / Aslamazyan, Miniatures The Akhtamar Quartet is the story of four musicians inspired by the essence of Armenian civilization.They have found in the music of Komitas an art from which to draw the purest feelings they wished to get across to the audience. Rustic, naive and ritual melodies, ballads or epic songs… Komitas’ Miniatures […]