Barkhudaryan/ Ayrapetyan - Four Oriental Dances / Twelve Armenian Dances Condition:New we should be showing a

we should be showing a soft sense of warm spirited grittiness

which is the case for the material on this album

The funky godfather of R&B's only all-blues recording

and underlines why his contribution to rock 'n' roll was so significant

Barkhudaryan/ Ayrapetyan - Four Oriental Dances / Twelve Armenian Dances Condition:New we should be showing aThe Armenian and Georgian composer Sarkis Vasil'evich Barkhudarian is famed for his piano miniatures. Some are among the first piano works to use Armenian folk themes as the basis for a series of original compositions. His colorful and unusual harmonies, created by the sinuous, interweaving modes of Armenian music, are immediately attractive and his miniatures, whether full of grace or pungent dance rhythms, bear out Glazunov's admiration of his