Tigran Mansurjan

Confessing with Faith' ist eine Reihe von Gebeten von dem berühmten armenischen Priester Nerses Schnorhali (1102-1173). Von den 24 Gebeten, die je einer Stunde des Tages zugedacht sind, habe ich für m...

From the AMP Library Of Russian-Soviet Music comes TWO PIANO SONATAS in one publication. The first is a 1965 Sofia Gubaidulina sonata and the second was written by Tigran Mansurian in 1967.

The work was composed in 1999 at a time when a close member of the composer's family was seriously ill. The ode of lamentation, which is about seven minutes in length, is assigned to the two instrumen...

Mansurjan's String Quartet No. 1 (1983-84) takes us 'on the long road of simplicity, on a wonderful journey during which the question whether this music is new or old can be answered very soon: It is...

The work was composed in 1999 when a close member of composer's family fell seriously ill. The ode of lamentation is assigned to the two instruments in such a way that they play singly in swift succes...

Mansurian studied Beethoven's 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 and coupled them with thoughts by Proust and T. S. Eliot: The smallest things in life, the little, seemingly useless facts of everyday life are given...

After I had dedicated my first quartet (1983/84) to the memory of a friend and musician who died young, I had to mourn the death of yet another friend: Eduard Khagagortyan. To him, I dedicated my seco...

The present publication is based on an earlier vocal composition by Mansurian with the same title Four Hayrens for mezzo-soprano and piano (1967). Forty years later, in 2007 (and again revised in 2010...

What does the Lotus Effect have to do with modal structures and prosodic forms of ancient Armenian sacred music? Tigran Mansurian attempts to fathom these mysteries - the magical plant with its unique...

In Armenia, the clarinet is considered a popular instrument. Almost all of our duduk players also play the clarinet. In some villages, they call it gralnet and they call the player gralnetist. In Para...

Composed in 2006 for the 15th Oleg Kagan Festival in Wildbad Kreuth, 'Agnus Dei' is one of Mansurjan's meditative works in which he aims at a synthesis of new techniques and old Armenian musical tradi...

Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them,...

Violoncelle - Violoncelle Et Percussion

Mansurjan's String Quartet No. 1 (1983-84) takes us 'on the long road of simplicity, on a wonderful journey during which the question whether this music is new or old can be answered very soon: It is...

The work was composed in 1999 when a close member of composer's family fell seriously ill. The ode of lamentation is assigned to the two instruments in such a way that they play singly in swift succes...