“Armenian Songs of Grikor Mirzaian Suni (1876 – 1939): Vocal Solos and Duets” (72:36 minutes)
Our first studio recording was completed in 1997. View the Flyer for this CD Now. (* You may need to download the free plugin Acrobat Reader to view the booklet. Click here to download >>) Included are 30 songs with piano, with four different soloists: soprano Elisabeth Pehlivanian, mezzo-soprano Maro Partamian, tenor Henrik Mihranian, and baritone Gourgen (George) Suny, age 85, son of the composer, with pianist Armena Marderosian. Four songs are duets, and the last song, Lorik, is in four voices. Many of these songs are written as four-part choral works, and can also be performed as solos or duets with choral parts on piano or other instruments – Suni’s special versatility!
Our 44-page CD booklet, along with biographies, maps, Armenian alphabet, glossary, and photos, has the text for each song shown three ways, side by side: the Armenian text, the English transliteration (about transliterations >>), and the English translation, with some musicological footnotes. View the booklet in PDF format now. [415KB] (* You may need to download the free plugin Acrobat Reader to view the booklet. Click here to download >>) Print the booklet so you can read the words to each song while you listen and sing along!
This 1997 CD was reissued in 2002 with a new cover on the CD booklet, and more information in its 44 pages.
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- Oy Yaro (Oh Sweetheart) – 1:12 – Listen Now
- Kyankn Anoosh (Sweet The Life) – 1:42 – Listen Now
- Inchoo Bingyolu Mtar (Why Did You Enter Bingyol?) – 1:23 – Listen Now
- Tooy-Tooy (Love Song) – 2:01 – Listen Now
- Kakav Trav (The Partridge Flew) – 3:54 – Listen Now
- Aghji Ari (Maiden Come) – 1:30 – Listen Now
- Miayn Kez (Only For You) – 4:00 – Listen Now
- Tsoren Em Tsaner (I Am Planting Wheat) - 0:44 – Listen Now
- Kali Yerg (Threshing Song) – 3:44 – Listen Now
- Habrban (Sweethearts Calling) – 1:57 – Listen Now
- Kyamancha (Spiked Fiddle) – 1:27 – Listen Now
- Mayisn Yekav (May Has Come) – 4:05 – Listen Now
- Mer Sareru (Our Mountains) – 1:04 – Listen Now
- Yete Mi Or (If One Day) – 2:53 – Listen Now
- Nenni Bala (Sleep My Child) - 1:39 – Listen Now
- Gatsek Amper (Go Away Clouds) – 3:26 - Listen Now
- Sareru Man Em Yekel (In The Mountains I Have Wandered) – 1:44 – Listen Now
- Yarali Yar Jan (Wounded Love) – 3:14 – Listen Now
- Sareri Hovin Mernim (For The Mountain Breeze I’d Die) – 2:40 – Listen Now
- Ov Dook Sarer (Oh Ye Mountains) – 1:46 – Listen Now
- Indz Mi Khndrir (Beseech Me Not) – 5:24 – Listen Now
- Mshooshn E Patel (The Fog Has Encompassed All) – 1:52 – Listen Now
- Papal, Papal (Song To A Baby Boy) - 1:01 – Listen Now
- Dil, Lyoo, Lyoo (Uncle Came To Our Back Yard) – 0:32 - Listen Now
- Saren Koo Ga Dziavor (From The Mountains Comes A Horseman) – 0:41 – Listen Now
- Hogis Mrmoor (My Tormented Soul) – 3:05 – Listen Now
- Aghkek Es (You’re Lovely) – 0:40 – Listen Now
- Kakavi Pes Man Koo Gas (You Walk Around Like A Partridge) – 2:16 – Listen Now
- Akh Al Vardi (Akh , Of The Red Rose) – 4:02 – Listen Now
- Lorik (Quail) – 4:51 - Listen Now