Sweet Dreams Varduhi Yeritsyan

• Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978): Children Album, Book 1:
• 1 Children Album, Book 1: I. Andantino 01:33
• 2 Children Album, Book 1: II. It is not Allowed to Play Today 00:46
• 3 Children Album, Book 1: III. Ljado is sick 02:26
• 4 Children Album, Book 1: IV. Birthday party 01:44
• 5 Children Album, Book 1: V. Estude 01:37
• 6 Children Album, Book 1: VI. Musical Picture 01:54
• 7 Children Album, Book 1: VII. Calvalry 01:14
• 8 Children Album, Book 1: VIII. Invention 03:36
• 9 Children Album, Book 1: IX. Imitating people 01:49
• 10 Children Album, Book 1: X. Fuga 01:55
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Music for Children, Op. 65:
• 11 Music for Children, Op. 65: I. Morning 01:57
• 12 Music for Children, Op. 65: II. Walk 01:08
• 13 Music for Children, Op. 65: III. Fairy Tale 01:56
• 14 Music for Children, Op. 65: IV. Tarantella 01:13
• 15 Music for Children, Op. 65: V. Regrets 02:23
• 16 Music for Children, Op. 65: VI. Waltz 01:32
• 17 Music for Children, Op. 65: VII. March of the grasshoppers 01:01
• 18 Music for Children, Op. 65: VIII. The rain and the rainbow 01:24
• 19 Music for Children, Op. 65: IX. Tag 01:05
• 20 Music for Children, Op. 65: X. March 00:59
• 21 Music for Children, Op. 65: XI. Evening 02:31
• 22 Music for Children, Op. 65: XII. Moonlit Meadows 01:47
• Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840 - 1893): Children Album, Op. 39:
• 23 Children Album, Op. 39: I. Morning prayer 01:20
• 24 Children Album, Op. 39: II. Winter morning 01:05
• 25 Children Album, Op. 39: III. Hobby-horse 00:43
• 26 Children Album, Op. 39: IV. Mamma (Bonus Track) 01:16
• 27 Children Album, Op. 39: V. The toy soldiers' march 00:51
• 28 Children Album, Op. 39: VI. My dolly is ill 01:24
• 29 Children Album, Op. 39: VII. Dolly's funeral 01:36
• 30 Children Album, Op. 39: VIII. Waltz 01:20
• 31 Children Album, Op. 39: IX. My new dolly 00:41
• 32 Children Album, Op. 39: X. Mazurka 01:08
• 33 Children Album, Op. 39: XI. Russian song 00:35
• 34 Children Album, Op. 39: XII. Farmer's boy playing on the accordéon 00:56
• 35 Children Album, Op. 39: XIII. Kamarinskaia 00:34
• 36 Children Album, Op. 39: XIV. Polka 00:40
• 37 Children Album, Op. 39: IXV. talian song 00:55
• 38 Children Album, Op. 39: XVI. French song 00:55
• 39 Children Album, Op. 39: XVII. German song 00:56
• 40 Children Album, Op. 39: XVIII. Neapolitan song 01:09
• 41 Children Album, Op. 39: XIX. A nursery tale 00:54
• 42 Children Album, Op. 39: XX. The witch in the wood 00:46
• 43 Children Album, Op. 39: XXI. Sweet dreams 01:44
• 44 Children Album, Op. 39: XXII. The lark's song 01:06
• 45 Children Album, Op. 39: XXIII. The organgrinder's song 00:53
• 46 Children Album, Op. 39: XXIV. Choir 02:11
• Total Runtime 01:03:08

Info for Sweet Dreams

Few composers have managed to write works for children while remaining themselves, without making the slightest concession on their style or their language. Whether they created technically simple pieces for apprentice pianists or easy to listen to for young listeners, Jean-Sébastien Bach with Anna-Magdalena Bach's Little Book or Bela Bartok with Microcosmos have succeeded in producing literature " educational ”which accompanies the development of children and which indelibly marks their memory as adults by making no concessions on the aesthetic level. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian, whose respective languages ​​are often based on a rhetoric of virtuosity, took up the same challenge and composed three summits of the pedagogical repertoire for the piano. Sometimes inspired by popular music from their respective countries, they refer to the poetic themes dear to any child: dance, games and animals. It is the joy and lightness that characterize these cycles that will haunt the "sweet dreams" of their listeners.

"Varduhi Yeritsyan’s performance deserves mention alongside the great recordings of Scriabin’s piano works [...] She launches into the incandescent later works in her survey, the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and 10th Sonatas, with their cascades of notes and proliferating trills, showing her technical fearlessness and her ability to keep a cool head and to find a logical way through the most hyperactive keyboard writing [...]" (The Guardian)

"Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s more hallucinatory and narcotic writing. Offering the complete sonatas in a mixed rather than chronological sequence, she stresses the abrupt changes from the Chopin-inspired (though already indelibly Russian) early sonatas, through the wildly ricocheting rhythms of the middle period to Scriabin’s final and rarefied ideal. She is on the best of terms with instructions such as l’épouvemente surgit (‘the frightening rises up’) or accarezzevole (‘caressingly’), and excels in the First Sonata’s demonic galop and in the Fifth Sonata’s alternation of volatility and sultry meandering." (Gramophon)

Varduhi Yeritsyan, piano

Varduhi Yeritsyan
Born in Armenia on Labour Day and living in France since the age of 20, Varduhi Yeritsyan holds an uncommon place in the current pianistic landscape. Through her twin cultures inherited by great masters such as Brigitte Engerer, Vladimir Krainev, Msitslav Rostropovich, Denis Pascal and Claire Désert, she is both a specialist in the Russian repertoire and a regular interpreter of the French repertoire. After graduating from Yerevan’s Tchaikovsky Specialised Music School for gifted children under Professor Vili Sargsyan, she studied at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), where she obtained the highest prizes for piano and chamber music. She then completed a postgraduate cycle in both areas, studying with, respectively, Brigitte Engerer – her true mentor ever since her arrival in France – and cellist Marc Coppey.

In 2007, Varduhi Yeritsyan won the Paris Conservatoiry’s Avant-Scènes annual student contest. She has also won accolades from the Natixis-Banque populaire, Tarrazi, Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Meyer and Or du Rhin Foundations, and was named “Classical Music Revelation” by ADAMI, a French performers’-rights collective.

Since completing her studies with a performance of Aram Khachaturian’s Concerto at the Cité de la musique, she has been invited to multiple festivals (Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins de Toulouse, Festival Berlioz de La Côte Saint André, Pianofolies de Touquet, Piano en Valois, Festival de Saint Lizier, Piano(s) à Lille, Les solistes aux Serres d’Auteuil, Festival international de violoncelle de Beauvais, Festival de Sully sur Loire, Festival Messiaen de la Meije) and has played on many French and international stages, including Paris’s Louvre Auditorium, the Cité de la musique and the Salle Pleyel, the Arsenal in Metz, Toulouse’s Halle aux Grains, Porto’s Casa da Musica, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Hague Theatre, the Czech Philharmonic in Prague, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Estonia theatre in Tallin...

Renowned for her interpretation of Alexander Scriabin, whose cycle of ten sonatas for piano she regularly plays as a cycle, she is also a passionate chamber musician, sharing the stage with Brigitte Engerer, the Danel, Psophos, Zemlinsky and Ardeo string quartets, violinists Renaud Capuçon, Fanny Clamagirand, Hae Sun Kang, Geneviève Laurenceau and Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, cellist Marc Coppey, bassoonist Pascal Gallois, pianist François-Frédéric Guy, jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan and duduk player Araik Bartikian. She also particularly enjoys performing as soloist, and in recent years has played with conductors including Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Anissimov, Fabien Gabel, Claire Gibault, Christoph Koenig, Bruno Mantovani, Tugan Sokhiev and Zahia Ziouani, leading orchestras such as the Bretagne, Île-de-France and BBC London orchestras, that of Porto’s Casa da Musica, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Strasbourg Philharmonic and the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra...

In 2010, she received funding from the prestigious Jean-Luc Lagardère foundation for her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s music, released by Maestria Records in 2012. Varduhi Yeritsyan has been a guest on many shows on Radio France’s “France Musique” channel, including Gaëlle le Gallic’s “Dans la cour des grands”, Arièle Butaux’s “Un mardi ideal” and Jean-Pierre Derrien’s “Le matin des musiciens”.

She is an assistance professor of Denis Pascal’s piano class at the Paris Conservatory.

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