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Armenian Spirit
Georgi Minassyan, Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian, Gaguik Mouradian & Armen Badalyan
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall
This album is a tribute to Armenia and to the Armenian musicians who played alongside Jordi Savall and his wife Montserrat Figueras over the years. The repertoire consists alternately of very lively pieces and more contemplative ones, all of them beautifully played on traditional instruments, including the ‘duduk’, a flute with a deeply moving sound originating from a time before times.
Jordi Savall unveils this music with his faultless musical flair and an endless curiosity, as testified in the lavishly documented and illustrated booklet.
"Armenia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the Orient, has miraculously survived a troubled and particularly tragic history, extraordinarily sorrowful, marked by wars and massacres that destroyed more than half of the population, exiled many Armenians, and resulted in the loss of vast territories. Despite its pain, the Armenian people have produced music that exudes peace and harmony. Our humble wish is to do a little to keep Armenia's history alive with the feeling conveyed by the music pieces on this recording." Jordi Savall
July/August 2015
achingly plangent … the poignancy of these songs from medieval and traditional sources – recorded on early and folk instruments immediately after the untimely passing of Savall’s artistic partner, soprano Monserrat Figueras – becomes an obvious metaphor: missing voices memorialised in lovely, evocative, profound and fugitive sound.
2nd September 2012
This is a beguiling, mesmeric sequence of instrumental music from Armenia, in which Hesperion XXI are joined by a group of that country’s finest musicians...[The duduk's] beautiful, musky sound seductively reflects the predominantly nostalgic, lamenting, soulful mood of the pieces heard here.
25th August 2012
Haunting and tragic, this CD is a double-lament — for Jordi Savall’s late wife, the singer Montserrat Figueras, who loved Armenian music, and for Armenia, with its long history of foreign subjugation and massacre...It is hypnotic and exquisitely melancholic.
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