AZERBAIJANI MUSIC

Composer(s): Various

Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova
Reference: KTC1566
Barcode: 8711801015668
Format: 1 CD
Release date: 2017-03-25
SKU: KTC1566 Categories: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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The works chosen for this recording do not follow any particular system or hierarchy. Whoever compiles a programme imposes, by definition, his or her preferences and tastes: when this person is also the performer concerned, the above is true not only for the choice of works but also for the interpretative choices made. These works for piano were composed over a period of some fifty years; they are true Azerbaijani works in that their composers were born in Azerbaijan and generally spent the greater part of their lives there.

Many of these pieces have become standard repertoire there and are performed in concerts and studied in conservatories throughout the country. There are also other works, less familiar and more personal, that are not as popular and as frequently performed. Nargiz Aliyarova discovered these pieces only gradually, over a period of years; she here takes great delight in sharing the intriguing and self-revelatory aspects of this music.

We naturally expect music composed in Azerbaijan to contain elements of native folklore and of traditional music. Our programme, however, is directly opposed to such preconceptions. Trois esquisses à la Watteau (Ismayil Hajibeyov) is a clear evocation of harpsichord music of the Rococo period; Faradj Karayev’s Monsieur Bee Line – Eccentric presents a humorously exaggerated version of the blues style of Debussy’s famous Prélude; Javanshir Gulyev’s Seven Pieces with Interludes in Mugham modes is a deconstruction of traditional modal scales down to ‘molecular’ level and creates an array of novel musical textures.

Nargiz Aliyarova has here assembled many different and aesthetically contrasting pieces into one spectacular anthology.

Jahangir Selimkhanov

1. Ballad
Composer: Jovdat Hajiyev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

2. The Most Beautiful Beauty from ballet ‘Seven Beauties’
Composer: Kara Karayev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

3. Waltz from ballet ‘Seven Beauties’
Composer: Kara Karayev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

4. 3 Preludes
Composer: Arif Melikov
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

5. Reflection
Composer: Azer Rzayev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

6. Saga
Composer: Akshin Alizadeh
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

7. The Sad Waltz
Composer: Akshin Alizadeh
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

8. Music for Piano
Composer: Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

9. March
Composer: Vagif Mustafazadeh
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

10. Monsieur Bee Line – Eccentric
Composer: Faradj Karayev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

11. Sketches in the Spirit of Watteau
Composer: Ismayil Hajibeyov
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

12. Seven Pieces with Interludes in Mugham Modes
Composer: Javanshir Guliyev
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

13. Ballad About the Motherland
Composer: Faik Sudjaddinov
Artist(s): Nargiz Aliyarova

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AZERBAIJANI MUSIC
 21,50
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The works chosen for this recording do not follow any particular system or hierarchy. Whoever compiles a programme imposes, by definition, his or her preferences and tastes: when this person is also the performer concerned, the above is true not only for the choice of works but also for the interpretative choices made. These works for piano were composed over a period of some fifty years; they are true Azerbaijani works in that their composers were born in Azerbaijan and generally spent the greater part of their lives there.

Many of these pieces have become standard repertoire there and are performed in concerts and studied in conservatories throughout the country. There are also other works, less familiar and more personal, that are not as popular and as frequently performed. Nargiz Aliyarova discovered these pieces only gradually, over a period of years; she here takes great delight in sharing the intriguing and self-revelatory aspects of this music.

We naturally expect music composed in Azerbaijan to contain elements of native folklore and of traditional music. Our programme, however, is directly opposed to such preconceptions. Trois esquisses à la Watteau (Ismayil Hajibeyov) is a clear evocation of harpsichord music of the Rococo period; Faradj Karayev’s Monsieur Bee Line – Eccentric presents a humorously exaggerated version of the blues style of Debussy’s famous Prélude; Javanshir Gulyev’s Seven Pieces with Interludes in Mugham modes is a deconstruction of traditional modal scales down to ‘molecular’ level and creates an array of novel musical textures.

Nargiz Aliyarova has here assembled many different and aesthetically contrasting pieces into one spectacular anthology.

Jahangir Selimkhanov