ECM 2236 The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble,Levon Eskenian ‘The Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff’ (2011)

・Review
作曲家Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949) の作品集。静かな、静謐さのある民族音楽。単音で奏でられることが多いからか、洗練されて響く独特の音階。

Armenian, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Persian、Caucasian folk など多彩な音楽を飲み込んでいる。これは掛け値なく、素晴らしい。個人的に、NEW SERIES においてはベスト10入りではないだろうか、そんな感動をもって聴いた。

・Catalogue
ECM 2236 The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble,Levon Eskenian ‘The Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff’ (2011)

・Track list
1.CHANT FROM A HOLY BOOK(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
2.KURD SHEPHERD MELODY(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
3.PRAYER(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
4.SAYYID CHANT AND DANCE NO. 10(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
5.SAYYID CHANT AND DANCE NO. 29(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
6.ARMENIAN SONG(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
7.BAYATY(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
8.SAYYID CHANT AND DANCE NO. 9(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
9.NO. 11 FROM ‘ASIAN SONGS AND RHYTHMS'(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
10.CAUCASIAN DANCE(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
11.NO. 40 FROM ‘ASIAN SONGS AND RHYTHMS'(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
12.TRINITY(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
13.ASSYRIAN WOMEN MOURNERS(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
14.ATARNAKH, KURD SONG(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
15.ARABIAN DANCE(Georges I. Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann)
16.ANCIENT GREEK DANCE(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)
17.DUDUKI(Thomas de Hartmann, Georges I. Gurdjieff)

・Personnel
The Gurdjieff Folk Instrument Ensemble
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan Duduk
Avag Margaryan Blul
Armen Ayvazyan Kamancha
Aram Nikoghosyan Oud
Meri Vardanyan Kanon
Vladimir Papikyan Santur
Davit Avagyan Tar
Mesrop Khalatyan Dap
Armen Yeganyan Saz
Reza Nesimi Tombak
Harutyun Chkolyan Duduk
Tigran Karapetyan Duduk
Artur Atoyan Dum Duduk
Levon Eskenian Conductor