Repertoire

REPERTOIRE

Cantata / Oratorio / Requiem / Symphony

Armenian Composers

BAROQUE

CLASSICAL

CONTEMPORARY

OPERAS AND CHORAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES

POPULAR PROGRAM

RUSSIAN COMPOSERS

KOMITAS SACRED – DIVINE LITURGY

KOMITAS FOLK SONGS

Komitas (1869-1935)

Loretsineri gutani horovel (Ploughing song of people of Lori)
Aravotun bari luys (Greeting the Morning)
Ampel a kamar kamar (Clouds gathered in an arch)
Akh, Maral jan (Oh, sweet Maral)
Ervum em (I am burning)
Hovn anush (Sweet breeze)
Hov areq, sarer jan (Dear mountains, make breeze)
Lusnake sari takin (The moon is under the mountain)
Lusnakn anush (Sweet is the moon)
Es gisher, lusnak gisher (This night, moonlit night)
Yar jan, ari (Sweetheart, do not marry that guy)
Sona yar (My sweetheart, Sona)
Shogher jan (My dear Shogher)
Ay sirun kaqav (Hey, pretty partridge)
Aghji Maran (Hey, Maran)
Habrban (Habrban)
Arnem ertam en sare (I shall take my sweetheart to that mountain)
Garuna (Spring time has come)
Shorora, anush (Swing, my dear)
Baghi pate dtuma (Pumpkin grows on the garden fence)
Gutane hats em berum (I bring the ploughman some bread)
Andzrevn yekav (It rained)
Keler, Tsoler (My beloved was glowing as he walked)
Khumar
Yerevan Baghem Arel (I made a garden of Yerevan)
Tun ari (Do come home)
Kali erg (Labor song)
Erknits getnits (From the sky and earth)
Takvor barov (Let us welcome the King (the broom))
Takvori mer, durs ari (Mother of the King, (the broom) do come out!)
Gatseq, bereq taqvoramer(Go fetch the mother of the King (the broom))
Mer taqvorn er khach (Our King (the broom) was a cross )
Hayastan (Armenia)
Tsirani tsar (Apricot tree)
Merik jan halal (God bless you, mother)
En dizan (That haystack)
Kaput qurak hetselem (I have saddled the blue colt)
Hing ets unem (I have five goats)
Akhchi, anund Shushan (Girl, your name is Shushan)
Kaleri champin ketsa (I stopped on my way to the fields)
Seva chobani shune (The shepherd’s dog is black)
Lusnake baka brnel (The moonlight has spread all over the yard)
Haray elli, yar (Hey, come out, sweetheart)
Sareri sindzn incha (What is a mountain grass?)
Lusnake los i, babo (The moon is bright, grandpa)
Nor em nor matsun merel (I have made some fresh yogurt for my beloved)
Yela tanis (I have climed up to the roof)
Zar znge (Let the sound echo)
Im chinari yare (My darling is like a plane tree)
Hoy im nazani yare (Oh, my graceful sweetheart)
Puchur akhchik sevavor (Little swarthy girl)
Yerknki astkhere togh tsol tan (Let the sky stars shimmer)
Varta yares (My beloved is a rose)
Ay tgha mer geghetsi (Oh, our handsome guy)
Dzhaghatse mani, mani (Let the spinning wheel spin)
Mer baghume nrni tsar (We have a pomegranate tree in our garden)
Ekan mokats harsner (The Mokats brides have come)
Chinar es (You are graceful like a tree)
Chinar es (arr. V. Ovsepyan)
Sirun jan (My beautiful dear)
Gutanerg (Ploughman song)
Areve kayne kesor (The sun has reached the midday)
Khnki tsar (Incense tree)
Saren kuga jukhtm ghoch (A pair of rams go down the hill)
Hov lini (Let the shade come)
Hayrik, hayrik, qo hayreniq (Father, father, your fatherland)
Sandi yerg (Grain-crushing song)
Mer baghe tsara (Our garden is full of trees)
Im chinar yarin (To my graceful sweetheart)
Yel, yel (Ploughman song)
Yel, yel (Ploughman song) (arr. V. Ovsepyan)
The sky is cloudy
An den Wassern zu Babel
Togh blbul cherge (Lest the nightingale sing)
Ov Ter Astvats (O Lord God)
Chinar yari ban asem (A word about my sweetheart)
Nanik (Lullaby)
Papuri (Clapping Dance)
Aghjkeq, par brneceq (Join in the dance, girls)
Ho yaman u yar jan (O my sweet, beguiling love)
Es arun djur e galis (Water's flowing down the stream)
Aparany qarot a (The village is rocky)
Tando, tando
Nanik nananik (Lullaby)

REPERTOIRE

Armen Boyamyan

Scherzo

Patrice Bernard (1952)

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)

Anthony Furnivall (1948)

Amazing Grace

Bjoern Ulvaeus (1945), Benny Andersson (1946) (ABBA)

Happy New Year

Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913)

Johnnie Cope

Christmas Carols in English, German and French

Cole Porter (1891-1964)

Let’s Do It

Donald Moore (1994)

“Be Joyful in The Lord” from Psalm 100

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974)

It don’t Mean a Thing

Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

Fever

English traditional carol (arr. J. Rutter)

Twelve days of Christmas

George David Weiss (1921)

What a Wonderful World

Alice Parker (1925)

Les Anges dans Campagnes

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911)

The Shepherds’ Chorus

from “Amahl and the Night Visitors”

Irish Air (arranged by Charles Stanford)

Quick! We have but at second

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

God Bless America

Jaakko Mantyjarvi (1963)

Four Shakespeare songs:

1. Come away, death (from the Twelfth Night)

2. Lullaby (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)

3. Double, Double Toil

James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893)

“One horse open sleigh”

James Taylor (1948) and Don Grolnik (1947-1996)

(arranged by Simon Carrington)

That Lonesome Road

Jason Mraz (1977)

I’m Yours

John Gardner (1917)

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Christmas Carol)

Johnny Burke (1851-1930)

Country Style

John Leavitt

Festival Sanctus

John Rutter (1945)

Candlelight Carol

Et misericordia (from Magnificat)

Josef Zawinul (1932-2007)

(arranged by Jerry Nowak)

Birdland

Karl Heinz Taubert (1912–1990)

Kling, Glöckchen, kling

Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)

America the Beautiful

Kirk Patrick

Away in a manger

Nino Rota (1911-1979) (adapted by N. Voskanyan)

8 1/2

Peruvian Song (from Swingle Singers’ repertoire)

Cachapaya

A Take 6 Christmas

(adapted and transcribed by Steve Zegree)

Silent Night

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Come, All Ye Faithful

Pierro Rossi

Bonum Certamen

Ralph Carmichael (1927)

A Quiet Place

Randy Newman (1943)