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Gheorghi Arnaoudov
FLOW AND STAY
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Gheorghi Dimitrov
Le Rappel des Rameaux for piano solo
Landscape with Birds for violin and piano
Kells for violoncello solo
Brahms versus Wagner for piano quintet
Barocus ex Machina Concerto for piano, hammerklavier, harpsichord and orchestra
Laus Solis for orchestra
© 2017 Bulgarian National Radio, MK-57496/09-06-2017
Isn’t Arnaoudov’s tonal world precisely that musical equivalent to Borges’s universe and his library of Babel winding into eternity composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, uncountable volumes in a multitude of languages and versions, and a spiral stairway, sinking abysmally downwards and soaring upwards to remote distances?
Might he not be the librarian and reader in one, and the writer as well, rearranging, rereading, rewriting volume upon volume of stories born by his imagination as a result of encountered texts, images, sounds, places, events or anything else he has experienced up and down the floors of the winding stairway or across the vast shelves of the library of the universe?
In this act of rewriting interpretations further flexed through his personal attitude and individual expression, would a surreal meeting of personalities of different ages not be possible, a homogeneous blend of tonally narrated texts and timbrically depicted images, as well as matching with ultimate precision technological devices from diverse artistic practices into effective artistic mechanisms?
It is perhaps this particular mode of rewriting that allows for bonding phenomena across the abyss of time and infinity of space together, into an immediate adequacy of the here and now – the proximity to our very own cultural environment; phenomena shared as personal contemplation on the meaning of experiencing the reading itself. Arnaoudov’s imaginary and musically imagINative stories are spellbinding with their inimitable peculiarity and the magnetic power of their sonority. Their exquisite narration, assertive expressivity and exuberant figurative language enthral one into their imaginary-phantasmagorical world and make you want to reread them again and again.
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Gheorghi Arnaoudov
BLACHERNAE
THE VEIL OF OUR LADY
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Martin Panteleev
© 2013 Bulgarian National Radio
EMBN: 5018243
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Blachernae. Grabschleier der Gottesmutter (Blachernae. The veil of our Lady) für Sinfonieorchester entstand Ende November – Dezember 2011 und wurde im Januar 2012 von den Sofioter Philharmonikern unter der Stabf ührung von Martin Pantaleev zum ersten Mal aufgef ührt. Sehr interessant ist die Entstehungsgeschichte der Komposition, die der Autor als eine Reflexion über seinen Besuch heiliger Stätten in Istanbul beschreibt. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Reflexion steht die Ikone der Heiligen Jungfrau von Blachernae. Diese früheste bildliche Darstellung der Heiligen Gottesmutter, gemalt von dem Evangelisten Lukas, ist bis heute noch erhalten geblieben. Es wurde eine spezielle Maltechnik, Enkaustik, angewandt. Im Einklang mit den heiligen Traditionen wurden die Farbpigmente und der Wachs mit der Asche christlicher M?rtyrer vermischt. Ob es sich um das Original handelt, oder um eine spätere Replik der Ikone, hat in diesem Falle keine besondere Bedeutung.
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Gheorghi Arnaoudov
CHAMBER WORKS
Festival of Arts Apollonia
Georgi Cherkin - piano, Anatoli Krustev - violoncello,
Emil Boshev - violin, Iva Lubomirova - flute
© 2013 Bulgarian National Radio
EMBN: 5054824
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Ritual No 2 for piano
Kells for solo cello
The Way of the Birds
Interpretationes I for violin and cello
Interpretationes II for flute and cello
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Gheorghi Arnaoudov
SYMPHONY No. 2
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Vassil Kazandjiev
© 2013 Bulgarian National Radio
EMBN: 5138653
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Blachernae. Grabschleier der Gottesmutter (Blachernae. The veil of our Lady) für Sinfonieorchester entstand Ende November – Dezember 2011 und wurde im Januar 2012 von den Sofioter Philharmonikern unter der Stabf ührung von Martin Pantaleev zum ersten Mal aufgef ührt. Sehr interessant ist die Entstehungsgeschichte der Komposition, die der Autor als eine Reflexion über seinen Besuch heiliger Stätten in Istanbul beschreibt. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Reflexion steht die Ikone der Heiligen Jungfrau von Blachernae. Diese früheste bildliche Darstellung der Heiligen Gottesmutter, gemalt von dem Evangelisten Lukas, ist bis heute noch erhalten geblieben. Es wurde eine spezielle Maltechnik, Enkaustik, angewandt. Im Einklang mit den heiligen Traditionen wurden die Farbpigmente und der Wachs mit der Asche christlicher M?rtyrer vermischt. Ob es sich um das Original handelt, oder um eine spätere Replik der Ikone, hat in diesem Falle keine besondere Bedeutung.
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Gheorghi Arnaoudov
THE WAY OF THE BIRDS
Tania Kazandjieva-Chauche - soprano
Chamber Ensemble "Musica Nova
Lubomir Denev - conductor
Le Rappel des Rameaux for piano solo
The Way of the Birds I for soprano, flute and violin
The Way of the Birds II for two Sopranos and Chamber orchestra
The Way of the Birds III for soprano, clarinet, violin and percussion
Footnote ( … und Isoldens Winkfall lassen) for two Sprechstimme Voices and Chamber Ensemble
© 2011 Labor Records, LAB 7068
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This CD is a presentation of four sound-poems by Gheorghi Arnaoudov written during the years 1991, 1996, and 1998. They are the result of his collaboration with the Bulgarian Choreographer Mila Iskrenova in various dance performances with the Arabesque Dance Company, theatre actors, and students from the New Bulgarian University. This collaborative process creates meaning on multiple levels and captures one of the most cosmopolitan Bulgarian artists, whose works seem to challenge time and space, at the height of his powers. Following the traces of the creation, the composer, in this work, converses with Orpheus, Thomas Aquinas, Wagner, Joyce, and the Miladinovi brothers traversing meridians and examining parallels in order to explore the sounds and thoughts of the modern world. The words of sages and poets inhabit his staves, and his music is always beautiful, pleasing, and prophetic. These four works relate to dance - to the human state that is closest to fl ying, the experience of which every being dreams.
The Way of the Birds I-III (1995-1996) represent three large fragments from Gheorghi Arnaoudov’s cycle of three poems for soprano and various chamber ensembles based on medieval Bulgarian love texts dated from the time of the Bulgarian National Revival - around the 17th and 18th centuries-employed in their authentic form from the Zagreb edition of the Miladinovi brothers’ Bulgarian Folksongs of 1861. The three parts follow the chronological order of the entire cycle. The Way of the Birds I introduces a virtuoso “raga” in the fl ute over the pure cantus fi rmus in the voice, based on a song from the Western Rhodopi region, forming a strange kind of motet. The Way of the Birds II’s sumptuous and colorful development within the instrumental ensemble contrasts with the ascetic vocal melodies, which weave authentic ritual chants and auguries into the amorous texts.
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© 2020, Gheorghi Arnaoudov
© 2020, Paintings by Yassen Panov
Contact e-mail: garnaoudov(at)gmail.com
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