Isabel Bayrakdarian – Armenian Songs for Children (2021) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. Twenty-nine tracks trace an arc from the Ottoman Empire through the Genocide and beyond, with songs and transcriptions by the country’s beloved folk composer Gomidas Vartabed, Parsegh Ganatchian who joined the diaspora in Lebanon, and Ganatchian’s contemporary Mihran Toumajan. For Isabel, these evocative songs span two centuries and five generations. Sung by her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, and now to her own children, Isabel’s “Armenian Songs” have an appeal to children of all ages.

Tracklist

1. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Six Children’s Songs
2. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Five Lullaby Fragments
3. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Sleep My Child Lullaby
4. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Dream
5. Isabel Bayrakdarian – You Are Beautiful Lullaby from Agn
6. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Children’s Prayer
7. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Song of the Partridge
8. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Little Wooden Horse
9. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Swallow
10. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bjingo
11. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Swallow
12. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Serenade
13. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Nocturne
14. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Sleep My Child Lullaby
15. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Swinging Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag
16. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Cradle Song Lullaby from Bithynia-Bardizag
17. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Gesaria
18. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bouncing Song from Gesaria
19. Isabel Bayrakdarian – The Scarecrow from Kharpert
20. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Two Playsongs from Agn
21. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Two Lullabies from Agn
22. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Khlat-Bitlis
23. Isabel Bayrakdarian – I Sing To You Lullaby from Dikranagerd
24. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Collection of Alphabet Songs from Medz Nor Kiugh-Bursa
25. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Four Children’s Songs from Van
26. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Come, My Nightingale Popular Lullaby
27. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Bouncing Song from Ani
28. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Cradle Song Lullaby from Ani
29. Isabel Bayrakdarian – Rocking Song Lullaby from Ani