Vartan Adjemian
Poem
for trumpet and piano
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Series: Armenian Composers Series
- Composed: 2012
Reference: TP322
CHF22.00
CHF17.60
- Publisher: Editions Bim
Vartan Adjemian (*1956)
Vartan Adjemian was born 1956 to a very well-known and popular family in Armenia.
His grandfather, Vartan Adjemian Sr. (1905-1977) studied with Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold and was the Gene...
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About Poem
Culled from the ancestral Armenian music tradition
This musical Poem is an epic work with dramatic, mournful cries which Armenian composer Vartan Adjemian wrote in a masterly manner for trumpet and piano.
The piano part plays a critical role, creating a haunting sound environment featuring sometimes rhythmical, sometimes amorphous, dense or light harmonic textures, often within the context of a declamatory format, directing the trumpet towards its extreme and idiomatic expressive resources.
Poem is a strong work culled from the ancestral Armenian music tradition and enriched by the most modern worldly technical and musical developments. (jpm)