classical music: Loris Tjeknavorian

classical music: Loris Tjeknavorian

classical music:

Loris Tjeknavorian

Khachaturian: Spartacus; Masquerade Suite for orchestra No1-5

Armen Mesrobian, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

Ancient Armenian Corpuscles Aroused
This is, in a word, GORGEOUS music and is sensitively performed by an "All-Armenian Team"!! No mention is made of the concert hall where it was recorded which is unbelievably ALIVE! The conductor is aware of the subtle points and lyric elements of the music and allows ...

Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D flat, Sonatina; Toccata

Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 2004

Earthy, Vital Performances--but Short Measure
It is not at all faint praise to say this performance of the Piano Concerto reminds me very much of Alicia de Larrocha's, one of the finest recordings of the work from the stereo era--maybe the finest. Like DeLarrocha and her conductor Raphael Frubeck de Burgos, ...

Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3

Alexander Borodin, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

RCA, 2004

Best Borodin Symphony performances
These are performances wich I treasure since they were released as a 3 lp-box in the 70's. Tjeknavorian plays the music in a very sympathetic straightforward "classic" manner without the disturbing idiosyncraticies conductors like Gergiev (with Rotterdam Philharmonic) ...

Borodin: Symphony No.2/In The Steppes Of Central Asia/Prince Igor

Alexander Borodin, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

RCA, 1991

It's called the pentatonic scale
This recording of the Borodin b minor symphony is excellent, and the colorful orchestration that entranced Debussy and his colleagues is easily heard due to the clear sound (too clear in the first movement, actually - one of the cello players sounded a little tinny to ...

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Orchestral Works (Box Set)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2002

Armenian Orchestral Music

Alexander Adgemian, Arno Babadjanyan, ...

Asv Living Era, 1998

GREAT CD!
This is a great collection of Armenian classical music. Armenian folk music has left a brilliant mark on civilization; influenced by folk, Armenian classical music encompasses textures unknown to the western worlds.

Khachaturian: Spartacus Ballet Suites
Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 1999

Khachaturian: Gayne (Complete Ballet); Selections from Spartacus; Masquerade Suite

Martin Gatt, Tom Kelly, ...

RCA, 2005

The best complete version
This is not the Gayaneh Suites, but the complete (1942) version of Khachaturian's folk ballet. I've never liked the later "even more complete" version, recorded by USSR Radio and TV Large Symphony Orchestra under Kakhidze. Khachaturian's rewrite didn't add anything but ...

Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2 "The Bell"
Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

Terterian: Symphony Nos. 3 & 4

Avet Terterian, Loris Tjeknavorian

Asv Living Era, 1997

Unavoidable
Practically unknown for Western listeners, Avet Terterian (Armenia, 1929-1994) is no doubt one of the best composers in the last fifty years, and one of the few great composers the Soviet era produced in the second half of the century, together with Ustvolskaya, ...

Glinka: Life for the Tsar
Mikhail Glinka, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 2000

Kabalevsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Spring; Overture Pathetique

Dmitry Kabalevsky, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 1998

Heart and Enthusiasm over Teflon any Day
I hear plenty of modern "perfect" performances that leave a well-written piece sitting dead in the water. To give excessive weight to "precision" and "intonation" in a critique of a performance is to sometimes miss the point entirely. These are the analytical tools ...

Aram Khachaturian: Ode to Joy and other works

Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 2000

Guilty Pleasures Again?
This new ASV disc partly duplicates an earlier issue on Citadel, which included the "Poem to Stalin" and the "Three Concert Arias." The Citadel disc employed Byelorussian forces. The ASV disc is part of a Khachaturyan series under Tjeknavorian and his Armenian ...

Khachaturian: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

Fifteen trumpets strong, one organ weak
Khachaturian's first symphony is greatly unrecognized, and unjustly so. The three movement symphony is the epitome of his orchestral writing. There are brilliant passages of excitement, with the expected loud brass, yet he also shows an ability to write soft and ...