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10-thanniversary of the Moscow Armenian Chamber Chorus
Dedicate to our frend - Alexander Alaverdyan.

N. Andriasyan and A. Gadziyan              

KOMITAS. PATARAG 
exekutor     

       MOSCOW ARMENIAN CHAMBER CHORUS

                     Including:   Conductor – Nelli Andriasian

Pargev Grigorian –
Tenor I, soloist -   №№  1а, 3а, 35а, 20, 21, 23, 25
       Viktor Buzlov  - Tenor I, soloist -  №№  12, 14, 23, 25, 30 б
      Yuriy Pritin  – Tenor I-II, Arshak Gadzijan – Tenor II,
Viktor Bobrov - baritone, soloist - №№  2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 25, 26, 30б
       Avatitnian Artiom –
Baritone, Chramov Valeriy – Bass,
                         Minassian Edgar –
Bass, soloist - №№  14, 23, 29, 30б


The chorus leader        -         Gadzian Arshak
The chorus  Sponsor    -          Aleksandr Alaverdian
 Recording engineers - George Karetnikov, Dmitri Misailov
       



Ajoint production of the Moscow armenian chamber choir and the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture. 1999.


 

 

         1.   №1a      Horurd Horin                                  -    0'00 - 3’16;       
         2.   № 1b     Horurd Horin                                  -    3’17 – 5’07;

         3.   №         ‘Entriald Astucoy                            -    5’09 – 7’38;
         4.   №          Ays hark n’evirial                           -    7’39 - 9’12;
         5.   №          Barehosutiamb Mor Ko                  -    9’12 – 11’41;
         6.   №          Me’cacusce andzn im                     -  11’44 - 12’55;
         7.   №          Surb Astuac                                   -  12’59 - 13’47;
         8.   № 7       hishea Ter ev vo’gormia                    -  13’47 - 15’06;
         9.   № 9,10  ‘Park Kez Ter,  Shnoria Ter              - 
15’07- 15'50    
        10.  № 11     
Marmin Terunakan                          -  16’51 - 18’39;
        11.  № 35а    hreshtakain                                    -  18’40 - 20’38;
        12.  № 35б    hazarac hreshtakapetk                    -  20’39 - 21’26;
        13.  № 12     Ter vo’gormia                                   -  21’26 - 22’44;
        14.  № 13     ‘Kristos i mech mer                          -  22’44 - 23’50;    
        15.  № 14      Ahiv kaccuk                                    -  23’51 - 28’01;
        16.  № 15      
Surb, Surb                                      -  28’01 - 30’11;
        17.  № 16,17  hAyr erknavor, Amenayni orniales    -  30’12 - 31’44;
        18.  № 19      hOgi Astucoy                                 -  31’43 - 33’06;
        19.  № 20      hishea Ter                                      -  33’07 - 33’40;
        20.  № 21      Ter vo’gormia                                  -  33’41 - 34’30;
        21.  № 22      hAyr mer                                        -  34’31 - 35’37;
        22.  № 23      Miayn Surb                                     -  35’38 - 37’19;
        23.  № 24      hAyr Surb                                       -  37’21 - 39’02;
        24.  № 25      Ter vo’gormia                                   -  39’04 - 41’45;
        25.  № 26       Ornial e Astuac                               -  41’45 - 45’04;
        26.  № 27      L’ecak i barutianc                             -  45’06 - 46’11;
        27.  № 29      Keco ‘ez gho’govurds Ko                   -  46’13 - 49’36 ;
       28.   № 30а   
Eghici anun Тiarn                              -  49’37 - 50’46 ;
       29.   № 31б    Or’ti                                                 -  50’48 - 52’09   
                       

Among the glorious heights of Armenian culture, v The Book of Lamentations by Grikor  Narekatsi, Airens by Kuchak, psalms by Mashtots and Syunetsi, sharakans by Shnorali, songs by Sayat Nova, v Patarag by Komitas is an ultimate manifestation of the Divine on Earth. With all the clarity of the musical texture, readability of its structure, the profound content of Patarag is not easily perceptible, nor is it generally accessible. It is almost devoid of obvious, visible reference points which help to penetrate into its essence. Only those possessing  spiritual knowledge can gain access to it. Otherwise, only the beauty and harmony of the piece remain to be seen. Patarag is very seldom performed as a work of music, nor is it used in public worship. Sometimes, a few stray fragments are performed; occasionally, complete parts.

Komitas is especially known as a collector of folk art. The adapting of  folk songs put him in line with the world-s foremost classics. He managed to become the creator of the so-called Komitas style as well as
the founder opener of the new way of thinking in this, at first sight unpretentious, genre, which had an enormous, fundametal impact on the shaping of the modern armenian music and contributed to the rise of many phenomena of the musical culture of the 20th century.

Komitas noticed the originally inherent spiritual categories in the primary source of the people-s melos. He managed to discern and incarnate these categories in a seemingly unexpected manner. Komitas did
not create an intonational, harmonic or any other kind of symmetry for the material he was working on. On the contrary, he places the tissue of music into an environment of sounds, an environment asymmetric to the original material, as he simultaneously projects different dimensions.

Every work of Komitas in this sphere has an absolutely independent traject of disclosure, and, if one can put it this way, an infinite motion in spiritual spheres (in this sense we are confronted with an extremely interesting phenomenon of visible, active transformation in time of the spiritual perception matter of Komitas- music). The main outcome is the emergence of a polydimensional, open-circuit, semantic space. The seemingly simple earthly beginnings get an unbelievable, cosmic depth and infinity. It would not be an exaggeration to state that this experience of Komitas is unique for our civilization. On its basis, we not only became convinced of the existence of a spiritual space but got an opportunity of studying it.

Behind this phenomenon many were not able to bestow due attention on the main and undoubtedly highest achievement of Komitas- creative work: his Patarag, in which he makes the next brilliant step: Komitas summarizes the whole spiritual experience of the Armenian Christian culture, which is as old as the christianity itself. It simultaneously incarnates the completely different, independent of each other semantic strata, which seventeen centuries long constitute the life of the Armenian people. It concentrates all the pain and blood which have been paid by the Armenian people for the light of the Savior. Everything created by the great ancestors of Komitas became flesh in Patarag, nothing remained out of it, since Komitas founded it on the essence of their spiritual achievements, which is why this piece is characterized by a noble and integral musical style. It also encompasses an invisible presence of Komitas- apparition of the inevitable Calvary, to which the Armenian people were brought.

Komitas- Patarag is one of the main results of the spiritual work of the Armenian people for its multimillenial history, including the pre-Christian experience.

There is one more feature of the piece: its essence. The presence of the Divine principle is visible in it, as well as its spiritual action on us people. Not only our attitude to God is present, but God-s attitude to us. This is the main difference of Komitas - Patarag from many Liturgies by various authors, including the greatest ones. I am convinced: this work of Komitas has not been matched by anyone neither before Komitas, nor after his death. Komitas made the world of God-s Cosmos an absolute and unquestionable reality which is not experienced rationally or emotionally, but spiritually.

This work of art is the greatest gift of the Armenian people to the world. May it serve for salvation of all the deceased and the living!