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Soul Music: Narek Hakhnazaryan “unwraps” Russian and Armenian cello repertoire at King's Place

By Mark Pullinger, 12 March 2017
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Reviewed at Kings Place: Hall One, London on 11 March 2017
Programme
Tchaikovsky, Nocturne for cello and orchestra, Op.19 no.4
Tchaikovsky, Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, for cello and orchestra, Op.62
Khachaturian, Gayaneh: Lullaby
Arutiunian, Impromptu
Khudoyan, Cello Sonata no. 1
Sollima, Lamentatio
Rachmaninov, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19
Rachmaninov, Vocalise, Op.34 no.14
Performers
Narek Hakhnazaryan, Cello
Oxana Shevchenko, Piano
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Alexander ArutiunianAram Ilyich KhachaturianCello Sonata in G minor, Op.19Gayaneh: LullabyGiovanni SollimaImpromptuLamentatioNarek HakhnazaryanNocturne for cello and orchestra, Op.19 no.4Oxana ShevchenkoPezzo capriccioso in B minor, for cello and orchestra, Op.62Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySergei RachmaninovVocalise, Op.34 no.14
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.