Track Listing

1. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra: I - Allegro maestoso
2. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra: II - Andante con anima
3. Concerto For Piano & Orchestra: III - Allegro brillante
4. Masquerade - Suite: I - Waltz
5. Masquerade - Suite: II - Nocturne - Nocturne
6. Masquerade - Suite: III - Mazurka
7. Masquerade - Suite: IV - Romance
8. Masquerade - Suite: V - Galop
9. Gayaneh - 4 Movements From The Ballet: I - Sabre Dance
10. Gayaneh - 4 Movements From The Ballet: III - Dance Of The Rose Maidens
11. Gayaneh - 4 Movements From The Ballet: V - Lullaby
12. Gayaneh - 4 Movements From The Ballet: VIII - Lezghinka

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158755 in Music
• Released on: 1992-09-30
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Definitely a good buy!
I found the Masquerade Suite better than I expected. I orderded it because I played it with my youth orchestra and wanted to listen to it again...and again...and again...
I also found the piano concerto very interesting.
And we all know at least the first movement of the Gayaneh ballet, entitled the "Sabre Dance", most likely from a cartoon or movie.
Overall a great CD.

NOT BAD BUT THE ONLY ONE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Not up to the versions by William Kappel or Lorin Hollander, but this performance will have to do for now. Unfortunately this is not an often performed work and could find nothing else on Amazon other than another with a "dated sound" review by someone else. Not that inspiring but not a total loss.

Simply Beautiful!
Many do not know Aram Khachaturian's moving, romantic music, but they would likely recognised the Sabre Dance, used everywhere commercials and cartoons or the Adagio used by Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey. That frantic, almost comical Sabre Dance comes from the oh so romantic Gayne Ballet Suite along with the Adagio made famous when Kubrick chose it for his film.

But it's his Masquerade Suite I love the most. Khachaturian's music has a feel as if it should come from a contemporary of Saint Saens, instead of one living and composing in the 20th century (he died in 1978). I danced to this as a ballet dancer, and I don't know any music quite so filled my heart and soul.
Few composure can imbue their music with so much passion. The Masquerade Suites' Waltz, Romance and Nocturne are just breathtaking.

I had to hunt and hunt to find this on a record, so I so delighted to see it on CD!!

Just is nothing as beautiful! To think this same composure also gave us the Gayne Ballet and Spartacus is simply amazing.

So discover the beauty of Khachaturian!