Luys i Luso (Light from Light)

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Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyancan be a hectic stage act – think high-voltage fusions of hip-hop, pop and buzzy, polished jazz – but his debut ECM album strips right back to his most lyrical... — The Guardian, 8th October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Sep 2015
Catalogue No: 4732383
Label: ECM
Length: 75 minutes

Grigor G Pahlavuni: Ov Zarmanali

Work length1:26

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Mashtots: Ankanim Araji Qo

Work length5:09

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Grigor G Pahlavuni: Ov Zarmanali

Work length13:10

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Komitas: Hayrapetakan Maghterg

Work length3:51

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Mashtots: Bazum En Qo Gtutyunqd

Work length6:42

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Nerses Shnorhali: Nor Tsaghik

Work length7:38

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Komitas: Hayrapetakan Maghterg

Work length1:45

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Komitas: Hayrapetakan Maghterg

Work length4:25

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Narekatsi: Havoun Havoun

Work length4:34

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Mashtots: Voghormea Indz Astvats

Work length9:33

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi: Sirt Im Sasani

Work length3:46

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Komitas: Surb Astvats

Work length5:45

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi: Sirt Im Sasani

Work length4:04

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

Komitas: Orhnyal E Astvats

Work length4:10

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Yerevan State Chamber Choir, Harutyun Topikyan
Recorded: 2014-10-11
Recording Venue: Argo Recording Studio, Yerevan

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‘Luys i Luso’ (Light from Light) is Tigran Hamasyan’s first ECM album, a spellbinding exploration of Armenian sacred music, featuring the prodigiously gifted pianist with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir.

Hamasyan has selected hymns and sharakans (Armenia’s liturgical songs) as well as chants by Grigor Narekatsi, Nerses Shnorhali, Mesrop Mashtots, Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi, Grigor Pahlavuni, Komitas and Makar Yekmalyan and arranged this selection for voices and piano.

This is music of the 5th to the 19th centuries, finding new and dramatic expression through Hamasyan’s improvisational imagination and the committed performances of Armenia’s leading choir. The album was recorded in Yerevan in October 2014, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Tigran Hamasyan, who lives in Yerevan following time in the US, has long been deeply interested in Armenian sacred music, increasingly drawn to its “incredibly beautiful melodies... Over the years the idea to do an entire album with Armenian sacred music had been building and growing in my mind...Even if it was not the anniversary [the centenary of the Armenian genocide], this project was going to happen. With the music we would like to bring life back to the places where it was born. I personally feel it is a matter of saying ‘Thank you’ to those great authors, composers and saints who lived at that time, and I am glad that we are still able to perform their music today.”

In March 2015, Tigran Hamasyan and the Yerevan State Chamber Choir began an extensive tour of over 60 concerts in churches in Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Luxembourg, Russia and USA, celebrating Armenia’s rich musical heritage around the world.

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8th October 2015

Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyancan be a hectic stage act – think high-voltage fusions of hip-hop, pop and buzzy, polished jazz – but his debut ECM album strips right back to his most lyrical folk intuitions...mostly the language is deft and sensitive – best when he does the least and lets the voices speak for themselves.

New York Times 25th November 2015

[Hamasyan's] own delicate, jazz-tinged piano improvisations weave in and out of the choral tapestry, adding a contemporary, personal voice to this entrancing ancient music.

Luys i Luso (Light from Light)

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