Music of the Caucasus [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia etc.]

[Crow]

Uzeyir Hajibeyov (or Hajibeili, or Gadzhibekov) - "Beloved" (az. Sevgili Janan, rus. Vozlublennaya), in original - romance with the words of Nizami's gazelle poem (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1943).
Transcription for piano solo by Georgy Burstein, published in Baku, 1966 (the file).

Gadzhibekov-Burstein_Vozlublennaya.pdf

Original version in the soviet azerbaijan movie "Bachtiar", 1955 (singer Rashid Beibutov): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZHzUsIKns

[Jim Faston]

A scan of Makar Yekmalian,'s lovely Nocturne in B-flat minor was uploaded to IMSLP, but sadly remains stuck in the copyright approval process. It may or may not clear. In the discussion of same,
http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Specia ... read=19100
this link was given:
https://issuu.com/haigavakian9/docs/mak ... _for_piano
A nicely typset edition of Yekmalian piano works by Haig Avakian available for free download. (You will probably need to register.) There are also a number of other excellent typesets of piano, instrumental and orchestral works by this editor that are well worth investigating, and probably more scores on that site to be found.
Here's a recording on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5hoecKzvQ

EDIT: It looks like all of Haig Avakian's editions are also available on archive.org.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=cr ... Avakian%22

[remy]

Thanks Jim. Great to have the Bb minor Nocturne and who knows what gems await in that archive.


jeremy

[parag]

Worth a listen... there are some gems in here I am sure you will like Jeremy!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Mr68Kmn0Lx
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/homma ... mpt=uo%3D4

Best,
Parag

[Jim Faston]

The Nocturne scan on IMSLP has just cleared as well.

[minacciosa]

I heard this ballet on the radio two days ago; it was fantastic!

Several selected pieces from the Seven beauties ballet

Kara-Karayev_Girlfriends-dance_fron_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_[Azerbaijanian]-Dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_Palace-girldancers-dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Karayev-Leechkis_Famous-Valse_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_Artisans-dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

[Jim Faston]

Does anybody have the piano scores of Armenian songs in arrangment by Robert Andreasyan ( 'Garun A' = 'Spring') and Georgy Sardjian?

It appears that Robert Andreasyan (1913-1971) published a collection of 11 pieces in 1965 which included the 6 Komitas arrangements.

There's a copy of Garun A on Scribd - could someone with an account kindy grab a copy for us?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/126637281/Ga ... et-Komitas

That file may have come from this site. (Link dead or possibly malformed)
https://www.leschroniquesdupiano.com/fi ... 360324.pdf

A scan of that book would be gold, but any other of his arrangements would be also be greatly appreciated.

[blast]

It appears that Robert Andreasyan (1913-1971) published a collection of 11 pieces in 1965 which included the 6 Komitas arrangements.

There's a copy of Garun A on Scribd - could someone with an account kindy grab a copy for us?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/126637281/Ga ... et-Komitas

I think I can help :

Komitas Garun arrangé pour piano.pdf

[Jim Faston]

Help indeed! Many thanks.

[Jim Faston]

I see listed in Worldcat a single Prelude by Eduard Bagdasaryan issued by Peters in 1962 (apparently a reprint from an Armenian edition and out of print). Is anyone familiar with this, i.e., is this a separate piece or is it extracted from the set of 24 Preludes? Thanks.

I'm still trying to locate the missing page to the set of 24 without luck.