The Tagharan Ensemble at 45: a jubilee concert

On 12 November the Tagharan Ancient Music Ensemble marks 45 years since its founding at the Komitas Chamber Music House. On stage are the ensemble's own soloists and internationally known singers and players who have worked with Tagharan over the years, led by its artistic director and conductor, Sedrak Yerkanyan.

The programme

The evening gathers the best-loved pages of 45 years of repertoire: Giménez's "Me llaman la primorosa" from the zarzuela El barbero de Sevilla, Arditi's "Il Bacio", Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in A major, RV 352, and Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air. The Armenian half brings Barsegh Kanachyan's "Lullaby", Khachatur Avetisyan's "Continuous Motion", Hambardzum Berberyan's "Anor", and Gusan Shahen's "Yar, I Would Die for Your Slender Figure" and "Bingyol".

It ends with arrangements of Armenian folk songs and dances — "The Shepherd's Call", "Horovel from Vayots Dzor", "Injinar Yar", "Dance Song of Musa Dagh" and "I Embroidered Your Necklace" — for duduk, blul and organ, which is rather the point of an ancient music ensemble.

Date and tickets

Thursday 12 November at 19:00, at 1 Isahakyan Street. Tickets cost 2,000 to 5,000 drams, and the concert is for ages 6 and up. The National Centre of Chamber Music organises it.

In October the same hall heard Tagharan mark the 75th birthday of the composer Yervand Yerkanyan, its long-standing director.