Composer: Parsegh Ganatchian, Sogomon Komitas, Mihran Toumajan
Performer: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Ellie Choate, Ruben Harutyunyan, Ray Furuta
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Release: 2021
Size: 2.58 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Komitas: Six Children’s Songs
02. Komitas: Five Lullaby Fragments
03. Komitas: Sleep My Child Lullaby
04. Komitas: Dream
05. Komitas: You Are Beautiful Lullaby from Agn
06. Komitas: Children’s Prayer
07. Komitas: Song of the Partridge
08. Komitas: Little Wooden Horse
09. Komitas: The Swallow
10 .Ganatchian: Bjingo
11. Ganatchian: The Swallow
12. Ganatchian: Serenade
13. Ganatchian: Nocturne
14. Ganatchian: Sleep My Child Lullaby
15. Toumajan: Swinging Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag
16. Toumajan: Cradle Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag
17. Toumajan: Rocking Song Lullaby from Gesaria
18. Toumajan: Bouncing Song from Gesaria
19. Toumajan: The Scarecrow from Kharpert
20. Toumajan: Two Playsongs from Agn
21. Toumajan: Two Lullabies from Agn
22. Toumajan: Rocking Song Lullaby from Khlat-Bitlis
23. Toumajan: I Sing To You Lullaby from Dikranagerd
24. Toumajan: Collection of Alphabet Songs from Medz Nor Kiugh-Bursa
25. Toumajan: Four Children’s Songs from Van
26. trad.: Come, My Nightingale Popular Lullaby
27. trad.: Bouncing Song from Ani
28. trad.: Cradle Song Lullaby from Ani
29. trad.: Rocking Song Lullaby from Ani
The celebrated Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian presents a poignant project of songs and lullabies that traces an arc of the memories and experiences of the Armenian people from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, and pays homage to her personal heritage.
Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. 29 tracks trace an arc from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, with songs and transcriptions by the country’s beloved folk composer Gomidas Vartabed, Parsegh Ganatchian who joined the diaspora in Lebanon, and Ganatchian’s contemporary Mihran Toumajan. For Isabel, these evocative songs span two centuries and five generations. Sung by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, and now to her own children, Isabel’s Armenian Songs have an appeal to children of all ages.