Isabel Bayrakdarian – Isabel Bayrakdarian – Armenian Songs for Children (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:00 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. Twenty-nine tracks trace an arc from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, with songs and transcriptions by the country’s beloved folk composer Gomidas Vartabed, Parsegh Ganatchian who joined the diaspora in Lebanon, and Ganatchian’s contemporary Mihran Toumajan. For Isabel, these evocative songs span two centuries and five generations. Sung by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, and now to her own children, Isabel’s “Armenian Songs” have an appeal to children of all ages.
Tracklist:
01. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Six Children’s Songs (04:56)
02. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Five Lullaby Fragments (04:09)
03. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Sleep My Child Lullaby (03:27)
04. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Dream (03:37)
05. Isabel Bayrakdarian – You Are Beautiful Lullaby from Agn (03:06)
06. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Children’s Prayer (01:19)
07. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Song of the Partridge (01:08)
08. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Little Wooden Horse (00:57)
09. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Swallow (03:00)
10. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bjingo (01:41)
11. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Swallow (02:19)
12. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Serenade (02:28)
13. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Nocturne (02:42)
14. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Sleep My Child Lullaby (03:57)
15. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Swinging Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag (03:04)
16. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Cradle Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag (02:50)
17. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Gesaria (01:59)
18. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bouncing Song from Gesaria (01:12)
19. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Scarecrow from Kharpert (00:38)
20. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Two Playsongs from Agn (01:47)
21. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Two Lullabies from Agn (02:39)
22. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Khlat-Bitlis (02:47)
23. Isabel Bayrakdarian – I Sing To You Lullaby from Dikranagerd (02:08)
24. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Collection of Alphabet Songs from Medz Nor Kiugh-Bursa (02:33)
25. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Four Children’s Songs from Van (03:54)
26. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Come, My Nightingale Popular Lullaby (03:20)
27. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bouncing Song from Ani (01:47)
28. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Cradle Song Lullaby from Ani (01:26)
29. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Ani (02:10)
