The Crane: Music from Armenia | Gascia Ouzounian (violin) and Eve Egoyan (piano)
A rare opportunity to hear folk, sacred, and art music by Armenian composers, performed by Armenian Canadian pianist Eve Egoyan and violinist Gascia Ouzounian.
Thursday 14 November 2019 , 7:30pm
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford
A rare opportunity to hear folk, sacred, and art music by Armenian composers, performed by Armenian Canadian pianist Eve Egoyan and violinist Gascia Ouzounian. Arno Babajanian’s dazzling modernist sonata is presented alongside much-beloved works by Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khatchaturian, and sacred and folk music set by Komitas, an Armenian priest and ethnomusicologist who is widely considered the ‘saviour’ of Armenian music.
Programme
Babajanian Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Minor
Khachaturian Song-Poem (Based on an Ashugi)
Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 46, 2nd movement
Komitas Works including ‘The sky is cloudy’ and ‘It is spring’