It is rather light in tone, yet covers a wide gamut of emotions and is a pianistic showpiece. Written in 1951, it won a major prize for its composer. His Heroic Ballad is essentially in the theme and variations forni. His compositions draw liberally on Armenian influences, though touches of Bartók, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev are also evident.
He was a pianist with a real virtuoso talent. In 1950 he returned to Yerevan and taught at the conservatory there. He was educated at the conservatories in Yerevan and Moscow. In short, I found it dull.Īrno Babadjanian (1921-83) was one of the foremost Armenian composers during the Soviet era. When listening it seems to take at least 50% more. Yet it is a rambling work that goes nowhere fast. It has Armenian overtones that are mildly reminiscent of Khachaturian. His Piano Concerto was originally written in 1960-61 when he was studying at the Vienna Conservatory, and it was revised in 1974. He has already recorded a series of dances that he wrote and that I reviewed favorably in Fanfare 17:5. He is a part of the Iranian-Armenian community who has returned to his ancestral homeland, and is one of its leading musical lights. Loris Tjeknavorian has been conducting a successful series of discs of Armenian music with the Armenian Philharmonic for ASV. Loris Tjeknavorian, cond Armenian PO Armen Babakhanian (pn).In the database firstnames are left in the spelling as given at the indexed websites.TJEKNAVORIAN Piano Concerto, op. On the website firstnames are never given in common usage spelling but only in direct transliteration from standard russian cyrillic. This table is an aid in finding the direct transliteration from standard russian cyrillic of some russian composers who are often named by common usage spellingsįor composers not born in Russia the column 'transliteration' gives the spelling from the country of birth This website and corresponding database (both available from the homepage) uses a strict naming convention for the names of russian composersĪll common usage spellings of russian names have been changed into the direct transliteration from standard russian cyrillic
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