Piano music by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (1903-1978), mouthpiece of the entire Soviet Orient.
Aram Il\u2019yich Khachaturian once described how he \u201cgrew up in an atmosphere rich in folk music, popular festivals, rites joyous and sad, events in the lives of people always accompanied by music\u2026 deeply engraved in my memory, that determined my musical thinking.\u201d He remains the most renowned of 20th-century Armenian composers, whose unmistakable style came with an urge to invent new forms that reconciled Western practice with Eastern idiom. Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of his piano works performed by Maltese pianist Charlene Farrugia. Her programme comprises Khachaturian\u2019s 2 Children\u2019s Albums and the 7 Recitatives and Fugues.