Sonic Asymmetry

Alan Hovhaness: “Prayer of St Gregory”, op.62b

アラン・ホバネス：「聖グレゴリーの祈り」

TIME COMMITMENT: 4 minutes

Performed in warm, cushioned tones, this celestial, sinuous invocation in B-flat minor strides confidently with a pace of ancestral maestoso.  The modal version for chorale-like organ (or harmonium) features Wynton Marsalis’s distinctly melismatic playing.  But it’s also worth exploring the less fluid variant for strings.

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https://allthingstrumpet.com/hovhaness-prayer-of-st-gregory/

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A REFLECTION

The Armenian Grief is a shoreless sea,

An enormous abyss of water

My Soul swims mournfully

On this huge and black expanse

Hovannes Tumanyan: “The Armenian Grief”