Mikael Ayrapetyan - Alexander Spendiarov: Complete Piano Works and Chamber Works with Piano

Alexander Spendiarov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a �musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique�. Spendiarov�s music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence � and he vitally enriched the expressive range of Armenian music as a composer, pedagogue and champion of his contemporaries. His piano works, both for solo instrument and for chamber forces, show the range of his gifts, not least his romances and lullabies, and range across his entire compositional life. Spendiarov�s songs, heard here in piano transcriptions by Villy Sargsyan, perfectly preserve the unique timbres and textures of these works.