Miranda Cuckson: violin; Blair McMillen: piano

Kim Kashkashian, Leonidas Kavakos, Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen,

The Hilliard Ensemble, Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek

Rosamunde Quartett
Andreas Reiner: violin, Simon Fordham: violin, Helmut Nicolai: viola, Anja Lechner: violoncello

Patricia Kopatchinskaja: violin
Anja Lechner: violoncello

Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson: lead violin

RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester
directed by Alexander Liebreich

Tigran Mansurian has created a Requiem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide that occurred in Turkey from 1915 to 1917. Co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the RIAS Choir Berlin, Mansurian’s Requiem reconciles the sound and sensibility of his country’s traditions with those of Western practices, the combination of ancient Armenian religious and secular music with the Latin Requiem text “giving rise to something unexpected,” the composer says. This is profoundly moving contemporary composition, illuminated by the “glow of Armenian modality,” as Paul Griffiths puts it in his booklet essay. The work is a milestone for Mansurian, widely acknowledged as Armenia’s greatest composer. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as that “in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty.”

Agnus Dei (2006); Sonata da Chiesa (2015); Con Anima (2006-7); String Trio (2008); String Quartet No. 3 (1993); Die Tänzerin (2014)

Movses Pogossian, Varty Manoiuelian: violins; Kim Kashkashian, Teng Li: violas; Karen Ouzounian, Michael Kaufman: cellos; Tatevik Mokatsian, Steven Van Hauwaert: piano; Boris Allakhverdyan: clarinet

Michael Mantler, Marianne Faithfull, Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Coyne, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Carla Bley, Larry Coryell, Terje Rypdal, Mike Stern, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Nick Mason, The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Chamber Music & Songs, Balanescu Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra