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July 04
Felix Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides" Overture

"I would give all my works if I could create such a monument as "The Hebrides," wrote Brahms. The show refers to the history of creation of this opus and its analysis.

June 27
Aram Khachatryan - Part 4

Aram Khachatryan gave national music to Armenia and a lesson to aliens. The next essay of the series refers to the ballet "Spartacus". "I have always felt Spartacus' closeness to our era," said Aram...

June 20
Aram Khachaturyan: Part 3

The violin concert is the sound reproduction of Armenia. This masterpiece was born the same way as Sarian’s “Masisses“ and fresco “Hayastan” have emerged from the energy eruption of...

June 13
Aram Khachatryan - Part 2

Today, the song "Vorskan Akhper" (Brother Hunter) in Aram Khachatryan’s 2nd Symphony, interwoven with the choral of judgment, sounds like an accusation of any kind of tyranny, be it fascism, Stalinism or...

June 06
Aram Khachatryan - Part 1

If we transform Khachatryan’s sounds into colors we would get the fireworks of Saryan’s colors. The reconciliation of the East and West starts from the very first days of Khachatryan’s...

May 23
People's Artist Eduard Tedevosyan

The show is dedicated to the 86th anniversary of the establishment of the Komitas String Quartet and the 40-year-long activity of the RA People's Artist Eduard Tadevosyan within the Quartet.

May 16
Grigor Narekatsi and Johann Sebastian Bach

Geniuses are often compared to each other. What can be common between the 10th century Armenian poet and the 17-18th century German composer? The show presents a panorama of the unusual parallels.

May 09
The Coriolan Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven

"If I mastered the military art the way I master music, I would show you!" exclaimed Beethoven who was hiding in besieged Vienna. The Coriolan Overture was born in the result of an explosion, as though the...

May 02
Author And Authority

Each work of Frants Shubert is a poem about poetry. The holy fire of the genius which ignited at the moment of the birth of the ballade “Forest King” has been burning until now....

April 25
The Mission of Komitas

The show tells about Komitas in the days so hard for our nation. Komitas is presented as an ethnographer, rescuer and recorder of the Armenian folk songs, who transformed these songs to polyphony, and who was the...

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