VVCD-00060
DDD 63.51

Khachaturyan Centenary Concert
May 13 2003 The
Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire
Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra
Adagio from the ballet Spartacus
Suite from the ballet Gayaneh (Dance of the Rose Maidens .Adagio.
Lezginka. Sabre Dance)
Waltz from the music to the drama Masquerade by M.Lermontov
Total time: 63.51
Recorded: May 13 2003 at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire
(1-8), 1990 (9)
Sound Engineer: V.Ivanov
The art of Aram Khachaturian appears to be an isle of joy in the
the 20th century music that was full of tragicalness, reflections
and often emotional and intellectual estrangement. Khachaturian’s
true music is full of energy and genuine optimism. Bright contrasting
colours inevitably caused associations with the fine arts. Perhaps
Boris Asafiev who, in the mid-1930th, described Khachaturian as
the Rubens of our time and his music as the art of the High Renaissance
drew most convincing parallel.
Khachaturian was the first composer of the East to become a classic
in the West. His music is built on a twofold foundation: that of
Armenian folk music with its explosive and impulsive improvisations
of the national singers, the ashugs, and on a European tradition
of the 20th and 20th centuries (for example «Oriental» music by
the composers of the «Mighty Handful», in particular Borodin and
Rimsky-Korsakov and ideas by Prokofiev and Maurice Ravel in the
field of the language of music and orchestration).
Mikhail Segelman
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