Avet Rubeni Terterian: Symphony Nos. 3 and 4

Like Kancheli, Terterian relied a good deal on short-breathed rhetorical gestures and the shock value of extreme louds and softs, but his own ‘spiritual’ idiom comes without the aura of consolation…[The... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
Catalogue No: CHSA5241
Label: Chandos
Length: 58 minutes

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Terterian: Symphony No. 3

28:43

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Tigran Aleksanyan (duduk), Vahe Hovanesian (zurna)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits

12:00

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$3.60

II.

8:45

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$2.40

III.

7:58

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Shogher djan

1:33

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Tigran Aleksanyan (duduk), Vahe Hovanesian (duduk)

Noobar-Noobar

2:30

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Tigran Aleksanyan (duduk), Vahe Hovanesian (duduk)

Terterian: Symphony No. 4

26:07

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits

Pt. 1

14:16

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Pt. 2

4:38

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Pt. 3

7:13

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$2.40

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In his homeland, Avet Terterian is regarded, alongside Aram Khachaturian, as the other giant of twentieth-century Armenian music, and as the founder of his nation’s progressive school of composers. His early works follow in the tradition of Khachaturian. From his opera The Ring of Fire (1967) onwards, he developed an advanced musical language embracing atonality, chance elements, and electronics. Another significant influence was the music of Giya Kancheli, and important, too, was the way in which he absorbed aspects of Armenian folk and ancient liturgical music into his personal voice. The backbone of Terterian’s achievement is enshrined in his eight symphonies. In summing them up he wrote: ‘We are all living on the threshold of a terrible apocalyptic judgement. It has always seemed to me that my symphonies are a cry of the soul for salvation and for the forgiveness of sins.’

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December 2019

Like Kancheli, Terterian relied a good deal on short-breathed rhetorical gestures and the shock value of extreme louds and softs, but his own ‘spiritual’ idiom comes without the aura of consolation…[The Third is] a score [Karabits] has championed elsewhere in Europe and about which he obviously feels deeply. Whether or not such sparse, essentially static invention adds up to a masterpiece, it sounds very much at home on Chandos’s generous sound stage.

November 2019

An unmissable disc of unsettling symphonies by an inscrutable, singular and important Armenian figure.

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