Khachaturian's popularity has dipped of late, probably because we think of him, post-glasnost, as one of Soviet music's "yes-men". Such a view is simplistic, given that he had a major brush with the ...

Armenian-Siberian violinist Mikhail Simonyan strode onto Oakland’s Paramount Theatre stage last Friday evening, tucked his violin under his chin, and proceeded unabashedly to win over his capacity ...

Most people will probably be drawn to Hideko Udagawa's latest album by the thought of her playing Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody and Sonata-Monologue. In some respects, however, it's Lyapunov's ...

Canadian violinist James Ehnes couples Khachaturian's cheer-fully garrulous 1940 Violin Concerto with two of Shostakovich's finest string quartets, both written in 1960s: the Seventh, dedicated to the ...

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto, Shostakovich: String Quartets 7 and 8 James Ehnes (violin), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Mark Wigglesworth, Ehnes Quartet (Onyx) Ehnes's own string quartet provide the ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - World-known violin virtuoso and conductor, Grammy award winner Maxim Vengerov said he loves Armenian music, while Aram Khachaturian is a genius composer for him. The musician told a ...

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen always has a place in the spotlight. As concertmaster, the first of the first violins, he’s the last one out onstage before the conductor and the ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra Teddy Abrams, Conductor Rachel Barton Pine, Violin Antonín Dvořák, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Teddy Abrams, ...

That talent is certainly manifest again here in Khachaturian’s Concerto. The playing is lissom, spicy and lyrically luminous, complemented by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s lithe rhythms and ...